House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared headed for defeat before two Republicans switched their vote, delivering him a majority.

voted “present” during several Speaker rounds before McCarthy was elected. In a scenario where Massie votes for another candidate and Spartz votes “present,” Johnson can still win.

At the start of the 118th Congress two years ago, it took House Republicans 15 votes to elect former Speaker Kevin McCarthy. Johnson has insisted he can retain the post with one vote.

The speaker of the House is a powerful official ... voted with Democrats to remove him from him speakership. The vote came after McCarthy worked with Democrats to avoid a devastating government ...

Massie has said that he’ll vote against Johnson and that no ... in the 2023 marathon that ultimately resulted in McCarthy’s election as speaker. “There’s no question in my mind” that ...

In fact, the vote for Johnson looks eerily similar to the one in favor of former Rep. Kevin McCarthy to be speaker in 2023, taken just months before he was kicked out of that office (events that ...

If no one receives a majority of votes cast for a named candidate, more ballots will be held until someone wins a majority. When Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) ran for speaker in January 2023 ...

quest to win a floor vote for the gavel on Friday ... the 15th Speaker ballot in January 2023 that handed former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) the gavel, and he was one of eight Republicans ...

That has raised questions about whether he can win enough votes to keep his gavel ... when it took former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) 15 ballots over four days to clinch the gavel. Here’s how ...