It took weeks for a new president to replace the ousted Kevin McCarthy.

The US House of Representatives elected Mike Johnson, Vice Chairman of the Republican Group, to the position of Speaker on Wednesday, according to the official voting results published after the vote.

Mike Johnson is a 51-year-old politician from Louisiana who is a supporter of Donald Trump. The former president confirmed his support for Johnson on Wednesday. The former Speaker of the House, Republican Kevin McCarthy, was removed from office by a majority vote. In the lower house of Congress, weeks of partisan political battle began over the nomination of his successor, Johnson, as the fourth candidate.

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Impeaching a Speaker of the House of Representatives is unprecedented in the history of American politics, as was the infighting that followed McCarthy’s departure. McCarthy was coached by members of his own party, but Democrats also helped him.




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