Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson is set to take his fight for the speakership to the House floor on Wednesday . The Louisiana lawmaker is the House GOP conference vice chairman . The vote capped off a chaotic day that started with Republicans picking Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmer to be their latest nominee only for him to drop out hours later after facing stiff resistance from the right flank of the conference and a rebuke from former President Donald Trump . Emmer was the third Republican to win the GOP nomination only to then exit the race after failing to lock up the necessary votes . The GOP conference is under increasing pressure as the House remains paralyzed without a speaker . But Republicans have so far struggled to unite behind a successor to Kevin McCarthy following his historic ouster following the House vote to push out McCarthy . The House has remained unclear whether any candidate can win the gavel in the aftermath of the unprecedented move in the last month . Johnson can only lose four votes on the floor to secure the needed votes for the House of Representatives to the Speaker’s position . There were around members absent for that vote and Johnson can now only lose just four votes in that vote to gain the necessary support for the speaker . The Republican conference is expected to lose those votes in the next two weeks . There have been around four members of Congress to vote for a new speaker. The House of Commerce Committee members of congressmen to vote again on the House to vote to determine whether they have enough votes to vote on the speaker’s decision to hold the speaker again. The Republican members of the speaker. House of commerce committee to decide to vote in the committee. The committee’ll be back to meet again to decide again to determine which members of commerce to decide whether to back up their own
Mike Johnson set to take fight for speakership to House floor amid GOP leadership crisis .
