The remarkable turn of events for Johnson was the result of a confluence of fatigue, luck and his lack of enemies
Rep. Mike Johnson shakes hands with colleagues in the House Chamber during votes for House Speaker on Wednesday. Just hours after securing the Republican nomination for House speaker, Majority Whip Tom Emmer walked into a conference meeting Tuesday evening and bluntly informed his colleagues that he knew how to count votes — and that he knew he didn’t have them — before exiting the room and wading“Emmer’s done,” GOP staffers in the hallway murmured to one another.
Like a jilted lover, McCarthy had been unable to entirely let go of the powerful speaker’s perch. He continued to hold news conferences after hein the weeks after losing his title, publicly bemoaned “the crazy eight” Republicans who supported his ouster, and never closed the door on the who McCarthy backed for speaker, dropped out, Molinaro made a motion to skip the secret balloting and move directly to a roll-call vote for Johnson, who had come in second place to Emmer.“That’s not how you elect a speaker,” McCarthy lunged forward and yelled, according to people familiar with the deliberations. He protested again when another member asked if the conference could waive the rule requiring a candidate forum and move straight to the election.
It only became clear that McCarthy was pulling nearly every write-in vote after Rep. Drew Ferguson — a loyal ally of Majority Leader Steve Scalise , who was the conference’s first speaker designate— noted that the number of “other” votes had risen from 31 on the first ballot to 34 on the second, and demanded to know who those votes were for. The room was stunned, according to people familiar with the deliberations, when GOP conference chair Rep.
McCarthy’s moment of redemption never arrived, but the late wave of enthusiasm for him provided Johnson with a clear blueprint of which factions of the party he still needed to win over. Johnson’s reputation as humble and well-liked, along with his deeply conservative bona fides, made it easier to smooth over concerns about himAt one point during this process, Rep.
“It’s hard to get to know somebody in one phone call,” the Republican lawmaker said, who has since lambasted the rushed process to elect a speaker that prevented them from fully vetting his controversial record.
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