Republicans will only vote for an election-denier for speaker

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...they've whittled their field down to an actual certification day instigator of the insurrection.

Jake Sherman @JakeSherman 1m
We have a new speaker designate.

MIKE JOHNSON has 128 votes and is the second GOP nominee of the day.

Rep Mike Johnson voted to overturn the results of the 2020 election and signed a brief supporting Texas’s lawsuit seeking to throw out the election results in key states. The day after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election, Johnson said he called Donald Trump and told him: “‘Stay strong and keep fighting, sir! The nation is depending upon your resolve. We must exhaust every available legal remedy to restore Americans’ trust in the fairness of our election system.’” On the morning of January 6, Johnson tweeted that “We MUST fight for election integrity, the Constitution, and the preservation of our republic!” Johnson has continued to attack Democrats for focusing on investigating the January 6 attack and referred to it as the “third impeachment” of Donald Trump.

https://congressionalintegrity.org/statement-every-house-gop-speaker-candidate-is-an-election-denier/

...the maga caucus (and their maga master) will keep tanking these nominees until the rest of republicans agree to Jordan, or one of the maga loyalists. Anyone who goes outside of the party and reaches out to Democrats will be dragged hard before their rabid base.

Those are their only choices, even if they look outside of the House for a candidate. They have to knuckle under to the active insurrectionists in their party directly aligned with the Criminal Defendant, or break away and coalese with the House Democrats - IF they'll have them.

Right now, they don't look to be able to move the majority of their members either direction.

[RockRaven]

1. Given that the Repukes need to muster 217 of their 221 when it goes to the

entire House for the vote... Does anyone expect 128 in their internal vote indicates someone who can get to 217? Gotta get all but 4...

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3. they're stuck

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[Walleye]

2. We shall see if there's anyone brave enough to vote against him in the floor vote in the GOP caucus