House Democrats might have hoped for a moderate after Kevin McCarthy’s ouster. After Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan lost, the right prevailed.
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What they had was wishful thinking. McCarthy’s months of surprisingly conservative stances won him fans in his own party but were alarming to liberals longing for the centrist idleness of speakers such as Paul Ryan and John Boehner. Their hope was that a GOP beset by bickering would have to float a compromise candidate who could reach the necessary 217 votes with a combination of Republicans willing to hold their noses and Democrats hoping for a less confounding speaker than McCarthy.
Majority Whip Tom Emmer of Minnesota has those skills in spades, but a lack of conservative credibility would have kept him from 217 even ifwith a single burst of social media posts. A field of nine possible replacements was replaced by a field of five. Johnson’s attributes vaulted him to the top.
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