Mike Johnson holdouts persist after Trump endorsement

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14. The link is ambiguous at best

But what's for sure, neither you nor I know exactly what the outcome is without a speaker.


“The country would be going into one big gray area,” Steve Smith, a professor of political science and global studies at Arizona State University, said about a speaker fight extending into Jan. 6. “The one precedent that is clear and could help determine what happens is at the start of a new Congress, the election of the speaker is the first thing the House does.”

“Nothing else happens until the speaker is elected. It’s been that way since 1789 when the first Congress convened,” Smith said. “Now, that worked just fine for the first Congress. But that could prove problematic here.”


https://rollcall.com/2024/12/24/protracted-gop-speaker-fight-could-complicate-electoral-college-count/