The surprise winner of the race for speaker of the House had one important ally in his come-from-nowhere bid: Donald Trump.
Some three chaotic weeks after the shocking ouster of Kevin McCarthy, the new Republican speaker of the House is Mike Johnson, a hard-right legal warrior turned little-known legislator from Louisiana, a deeply religious, 51-year-old father of four who has been involved in electoral politics for less than nine years and in Washington for two years less than that.
Trump, he believes, is an institutionalist. “He doesn’t articulate it in the same way that some old constitutional-law nerds would,”, leading Trump to include him in his defense team for the Senate impeachment trial, in which he was acquitted. About this, Johnson said, “His ultimate gesture of trust was asking me to serve on the impeachment defense team. It was an extraordinary experience.”Johnson as speaker over Kevin McCarthy.
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