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    Louisiana’s Mike Johnson replaces Kevin McCarthy as House speaker

    by Erin B. Logan and Faith E. Pinho, Los Angeles Times Oct 25, 2023 5 minutes
    House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, left, hands the gavel to newly-elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson after the House of Representatives held an election in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, in Washington, D.C..

    WASHINGTON — Rep. Mike Johnson, a relatively inexperienced Louisiana Republican who fought to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election, was elected speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday, ending weeks of leaderless chaos that followed the Oct. 3 ouster of Bakersfield Rep. Kevin McCarthy.

    Johnson’s ascension to the speaker’s chair cements a fiercely pro-Trump, hard-line faction as the face of the national GOP. The speaker of the House is second in line, after the vice president, to fill any presidential vacancy.

    The vote was 220-209, with House Republicans voting unanimously for Johnson and all Democrats present backing Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries of New York.

    The outcome thrusts Johnson, a 51-year-old former conservative talk radio host now in his fourth term in Congress, into the national spotlight.

    Johnson, a longtime opponent of

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