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Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

Mike Johnson’s Motion-to-Vacate Roulette

Somebody's Gotta Win with Tara Palmeri

The Ringer

News

4.41.8K Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Tara is joined by Puck’s own Abby Livingston to discuss the political chaos surrounding House Speaker Mike Johnson’s perilous decision to move forward with the bipartisan Ukraine aid bill. They examine the viability of a coalition government, shine a light on the internal GOP mudslinging, and speculate on Johnson’s future with the gavel. For more of Tara's reporting, please sign up for her newsletter, ‘The Best and the Brightest,’ at puck.news/tarapalmeri and use the discount code TARA20 Host: Tara Palmeri Guest: Abby Livingston Producer: Chris Sutton Production Supervision: Conor Nevins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

An Instagram post gets an unexpected boost, a Tik-Toc catches in the algorithm.

0:05.0

Sometimes that's all it takes to launch someone into internet fame.

0:09.0

But then what?

0:11.0

This blew up is a new podcast documentary that reveals how social media stardom is made.

0:16.0

It's a different kind of fame that's not always as glamorous as it looks.

0:20.0

From Spotify and the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm

0:23.3

Melissa Bureznak.

0:24.8

You can listen to this blue up on Spotify

0:26.8

or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Tara Paul Mary. I'm Puck Senior Political Correspondent, and this is,

0:48.0

Somebody's Gotta Win. We are in a weird time right now in Washington.

0:52.6

The Republican Speaker of the House Mike Johnson just passed a large foreign aid package

0:57.5

with the help of Democrats.

0:59.2

You would think this is a Kumbaya moment, a moment of bipartisanship.

1:03.7

But more than 100 Republicans voted against the bill, and it's exposing very deep riffs in the

1:08.4

party.

1:09.4

If you want to see them for yourself, just look on Twitter, on cable news.

1:12.3

There's lots of mudslinging.

1:13.7

Marjorie Taylor Green is calling for a motion to vacate against Johnson who at one

1:18.6

time was just like Marjorie Taylor Green a conservative malcontent who made the speaker's job very hard.

1:24.7

Will she actually follow through on her threat and call for a vote?

1:28.6

She says she will.

1:29.6

But when she does, will Democrats bail Johnson out after he passed one of their top agenda items?

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