The new House speaker unquestionably supported the effort to block Joe Biden’s presidency. But it’s not clear that his role was particularly significant.
Soon after the House Republican conference voted to make Rep. Mike Johnson their party’s nominee for speaker and some 12 hours before he would win that position on the House floor, a reporter asked Johnson about his efforts to subvert the 2020 election results.the questioner. But this question of Johnson’s efforts to block Joe Biden’s 2021 inauguration quickly became a central part of discussions about his political career.
This idea would be elevated nationally when Trump attorney Sidney Powell made an expanded version of the allegation during a news conference hosted by the Republican National Committee on Nov. 19, 2020. But it was already out in the ether. Within days of the election being called for Biden, there was rampant discussion onThis idea that Dominion was suspect was also rumbling around in top-level right-wing media circles at the time. On Nov.
By the end of December, it was already clear that a number of representatives would object to the electors submitted on Jan. 6. The question turned to the other side of Capitol Hill; without a senator joining the objection, the effort to derail electors would fail. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell struggled to ensure that no one did. But on Dec. 30, Sen.
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