It will take multiple ballots Friday afternoon and perhaps into the weekend for the House to pick a speaker for the 119th Congress.
Louisiana Republican Mike Johnson, who was speaker for most of the last Congress, has spent days meeting with colleagues trying to secure support to stay on the job. President-elect Donald Trump has also been making calls.
But at least three members — Thomas Massie of Kentucky, Keith Self of Texas and Ralph Norman of South Carolina — didn’t support Johnson on the first ballot.
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“A win for Mike today will be a big win for the Republican Party, and yet another acknowledgment of our 129 year most consequential Presidential Election!!” Trump wrote on his social media app, Truth Social, on Friday.
