U.S. Representative Mike Johnson has been elected by his fellow Republicans to serve as the 56th Speaker of the US House of Representatives after three weeks of turmoil and three failed candidates.
In a decisive election on October 25, Representative Johnson secured the Speaker’s position with a vote of 220, while his opponent, Representative Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), saw a vote of 209, making him the Minority.
This outcome officially anointed him as the successor to former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) following McCarthy’s unprecedented removal earlier in the same month.
