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Speaker Johnson steps aside as House GOP leader.
Mike Johnson won’t run for House minority leader in the new Congress, two people familiar with his decision told the AP. Democrats swept the House on Tuesday, so the speaker’s gavel passes to them. Republicans pick a new leader next week, likely Steve Scalise or Jim Jordan. Johnson won his Louisiana seat for an eighth term.
Mike Johnson is the Speaker, the person in charge of the House, where a lot of our laws get made. His team lost the big vote on Tuesday, so he says he won’t be the boss of his team anymore. It’s like a captain handing over the armband after a hard loss. He still has his job, and the grown-ups have it.
The party with the most House seats picks the Speaker. Republicans lost that majority on Tuesday, so in January the gavel goes to the Democrats, likely Hakeem Jeffries. Johnson could have run to lead the smaller Republican side; he told his staff he won’t. Lose enough games and the captaincy gets rechosen.
In October Johnson told CBS he’d stay on whatever happened. After the loss he told staff he won’t run. Can a leader change his mind when the numbers change, or was October a campaign line? Second: Axios says Republicans are watching whether Trump backs a successor. Should he get a say?