Speaker Mike Johnson won the top job on Wednesday after an intense day of elections and meetings about three weeks after ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted.
Newly-minted Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., managed to unite one of the most fractured House Republican Conferences in modern history on Wednesday, but he was hardly considered a frontrunner to replace ex-Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. Johnson was elected by a unanimous House Republican caucus, ending three weeks of turmoil and multiple failed attempts to fill the speakership after McCarthy's historic ousting.
But Johnson nevertheless wound up scoring a decisive victory on Tuesday night when, during a roll call vote after he won the election, every Republican present vowed to support him behind closed doors. Fox News Digital reached out to McCarthy’s office but did not immediately hear back. Fox News' Tyler Olson contributed to this report
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