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is fueling America's workforce by visitingable News. It's Thursday, October 3rd, 2024. Let's get into the mix. Here are your Washington headlines of the day. Number one, we've got a leader look at Speaker

Mike Johnson and Hakeem Jeffries. Number two, a popular kid's online safety bill gets

dragged down by internal house GOP fighting. And number three, Richard Hudson's big choice

post-election. All right, everyone, happy Thursday. Happy Rosh Hashanah for all who celebrate.

We have just 33 days until the election. So this morning, we are engaging in the number one

story of the morning with a semi-frequent punchable news tradition, our leader look. We're going to

focus this morning on Speaker Mike Johnson and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. Tomorrow we'll take a look at

Senate leadership. So first off, Mike Johnson, one year ago today, in fact, the House voted to

oust Kevin McCarthy's Speaker triggering the end of his political career and beginning an especially

embarrassing period for the House Republicans.

On October 25th, after stumbling around for three weeks, House Republicans tapped Mike Johnson to be Speaker.

The 52-year-old Louisiana Republican had only served in a minor leadership role at that time.

But he also had the most important attribute of all.

No one really disliked him. To Johnson's credit, he's lasted longer in the job than McCarthy

did, and Johnson's laying the groundwork to run for the gavel again should Republicans keep

the majority. So let's look at the different factions here that are important on the campaign trail,

of course.

Johnson's future in House leadership will hinge on the election results.

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