Round One: Speaker Vote
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🗓️ 3 January 2025
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UPDATE: Representatives Rep. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Keith Self (R-Texas) folded to Johnson's wishes and handed him the speakership. Stay tuned for more up to date coverage.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to what I'm sure will be the first of many, many episodes of GOP dysfunction year 2025. |
| 0:08.4 | Well, it looks like Johnson had some high hopes that he would be easily reelected to be Speaker of the House. |
| 0:15.7 | Take a look at this. |
| 0:17.2 | I have that ability. |
| 0:18.6 | We will get everyone together, rowing in the same direction, and we will deliver for the American people. We have no margin for error. When was your last conversation with Thomas Massey? Probably a week and a half ago. Well, before we left town for Christmas, so it had been December 20th. Look, Thomas is a friend. I respect him. We have difference of opinion. |
| 0:38.7 | Everybody's entitled to their opinion. But I have 220 colleagues here on the Republican side, |
| 0:43.4 | and we've got to move together. I mean, we don't have any option. You know, the principle that |
| 0:48.3 | we try to advance here is that no one's ever asked to compromise core principles, core ideals or beliefs, |
| 0:55.6 | but we have to compromise on occasion our preferences because that's the nature of a deliberative body like ours. |
| 1:01.1 | So we're never going to get everything we want. |
| 1:03.0 | We have 435 colleagues here in this chamber, and it's a messy situation sometimes, the sausage making. |
| 1:08.6 | But we are going to do that in an effective and efficient |
| 1:11.5 | manner because we have to yeah we got to fix everything and we're ready to go core believes that's |
| 1:17.2 | hysterical uh but johnson is right the the gop majority could is very very slim and could only be |
| 1:24.8 | slimmer if they had one viewer vote it It's 219 Republicans, 215 Democrats. |
| 1:30.1 | We know that Huckham Jeffries is going to get all of the 215 Democratic votes. |
| 1:35.4 | So Johnson literally cannot lose one more vote. |
| 1:38.2 | Massey is determined to vote against him. |
| 1:40.2 | The thing that's weird, though, is this is not a shoe-in, but there are no other real contenders |
| 1:46.6 | to replace Johnson. But I want to get back to Massey for a second, just so you understand how |
| 1:53.0 | determined he is not to vote for Mike Johnson. Get your vote for Mike Johnson. Oh, no. You can pull all my fingernails out. You can shove bamboo up in them. |
| 2:04.6 | You can start cutting off my fingers. I am not voting for Mike Johnson tomorrow. |
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