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Republicans have at long last elected a House speaker: Representative Mike Johnson, a fundamentalist Christian who was also once called a key “architect” in Congress’s efforts to overthrow the 2020 election.

Johnson finally secured the speaker’s gavel after Republican infighting left the House without a speaker for 22 days. He secured 220 votes.

Johnson is a four-term congressman representing Louisiana. His win also represents the rise of the MAGA front in the Republican Party. Earlier Wednesday morning, Donald Trump endorsed Johnson as House speaker—after quickly killing Mike Emmer’s nomination the day before.

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[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Isn't he second in line after VP?

[-] uphillbothways@kbin.social 18 points 1 year ago

I think we're saying the same thing, but just assigning numbers and using language with slight variations.

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I agree that we’re trying to say the same thing but the other person who commented is trying to make it an indexing problem so I apologize:

When you’re the president, you are the president. You are not in the line of succession. You are not 0th or 1st in line to be president because you aren’t in the queue.

When you are riding a rollercoaster, you aren’t first in line to ride the rollercoaster. You’re not in line. The person who didn’t make it on the ride is first in line

[-] Fondots@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Depends on if you count the president as 0 or 1

[-] hddsx@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

The President isn’t in line to be President. He IS the president. This isn’t an array indexing problem.

When you’re on the roller coaster, you are not first in line to be on the roller coaster. The person who just barely didn’t make it on is first in line.

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