So here we go again…
Please direct all comments and links regarding the actual VOTING to this thread.
Edit Confirmed, Mike Johnson is the next speaker after running the table of all present and voting Republicans, 220 to Hakeem Jeffries 209.
If you’d like to know more about Mike Johnson, here’s a good link:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/who-is-mike-johnson-republican-2020-election
I’ll leave this pinned for 24 hours so everyone can catch up, then take it down.
1st vote count is in:
Hakeem Jeffries - 212 (217 needed to win)
Jim Jordan - 200
Steve Scalise - 7
Kevin McCarthy - 6
“Others” - 7
Jordan could have only lost 4 votes, he lost 20.
2nd vote:
Jeffries - 212
Jordan - 199
Scalise - 7
McCarthy - 5
Zeldin - 3
“Others” - 7 (one each)
Edit 3rd vote is in, House in recess.
Jeffries - 210
Jordan - 194
Scalise - 8
McHenry - 6
Zeldin - 4
Donalds - 2
McCarthy - 2
“Others” - 3 (1 each)
Matt Gaetz has vowed to oppose expanding the powers for McHenry:
Johnson, one of the most conservative options imaginable, won probably because Republicans were sick of the chaos.
They are currently in the fuck around phase, and when it comes time to do the budget, will find out. Johnson will either trigger a shutdown and get all the blame onto the Republicans by refusing to compromise (and further prove the crazies have taken over the party) or he’ll get a deal with Democrats and then Gaetz will yeet him again.
I give it until… Dec 1. Until speaker elections begin again.
The dude was an insurrectionist, could he affect the next election?
Honestly, it might be presumptive to think he’ll last that far ahead.
Personally I prefer this to just two united parties, that’s how stuff like the PATRIOT Act got enacted. It also leads to compromises being bipartisan rather than non-partisan. There is a preferable way the parties could be divided, but this is better than nothing.
I am thinking new years.
Then we’ve got a bet!
12/1 is also the deadline for motions in the Trump Georgia case. We might get a trial date then.