This chapter discusses whether Mike Johnson, a House Speaker, hurts or helps Joe Biden. One speaker believes Johnson helps Biden because he can be associated with the chaos and extremism of Donald Trump's presidency, while another argues that Johnson's impact on voters is minimal and Biden is responsible for his own failures.
After three incredibly chaotic weeks, the House Republican Conference elected a relatively unknown (and startlingly retrograde) Louisiana congressman, Mike Johnson, as Speaker of the House. Today we learn who he is and what impact he will have on the issues, from gay rights and abortion to the keeping the government funded, as well as what his ascension portends for the 2024 elections.
Our guests are: Marianna Sotomayor, a congressional reporter at The Washington Post; Nia-Malika Henderson, a senior political analyst at CNN and soon-to-be politics and policy columnist at Bloomberg Opinion; and Tina Nguyen, a national correspondent at Puck and author of The MAGA Diaries, a forthcoming book that chronicles her journey to becoming a (reformed) accidental conservative activist.
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