House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday it would be a 'dangerous gambit' for the House to approve Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's motion to vacate against him, and said that Democrats who have said they will not pass the motion to oust him are looking 'pragmatically.
House Speaker Mike Johnson said Friday it would be a "dangerous gambit" for the House to approve Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's motion to vacate against him, and said that Democrats who have said they will not pass the motion to oust him are looking "pragmatically" at the issue because the "world's on fire."
"We've got hot wars everywhere," Johnson told show guest host Alice Stewart. "We've got challenges here at home, unrest on college campuses, an open border, all the rest. And so they're looking at that and saying, 'you know, the damage would be so consequential.' " He also insisted that he did not request the Democrats to refuse to vote to oust him, even if it means they "may need to hold their nose and support a conservative Republican. I'm being called the most conservative Republican that's ever held the gavel of the speaker."
He noted that former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wrote in an opinion piece that Johnson has the toughest speakership since the Civil War, as Republicans only hold a one-vote margin.
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