Washington Rep. Mike Johnson Republicans latest nominee to be the next speaker of the House has been a vocal supporter of former President Donald Trump and was a key congressional figure in the failed efforts to overturn the election . Johnson joined a group of House Republicans in voting to sustain the objection to electoral votes on January . During Trumps first impeachment trial in January Johnson along with a . group of other GOP lawmakers served a largely ceremonial role in Trumps Senate impeachment team . Johnson also sent an email from a personal email account in to every House Republican soliciting signatures for an amicus brief in the longshot Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate electoral college votes from multiple states . Rep. Kevin Hern an Oklahoma Republican who chairs the influential Republican Study Committee dropped out of the race for speaker Tuesday evening and backed Johnson . The win follows Minnesota Rep. Tom Emmers decision to drop out following resistance from the right flank of the . conference and a rebuke from Trump and Rep. Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan have also dropped out after earlier seeking the speakers gavel . Reps. Jim Jordan and Reps. Steve . Scalise have also withdrawn from the speakership race . Jim Jordan . Jordan and Steve Smith Scalise . Jordan have both dropped out from the speaker race after they earlier sought the speakers gave out after they had earlier sought their respective bids for the speakers Gavels . Jim . Jordan had earlier said they had decided to withdraw from the House of the conference and had said they would not seek the speakers . Scalisis and Jordan had refused to seek the speaker giverships . The House of Representatives. The Republican Conference had declined to say they would no longer want to give up their bid for the Speaker position . The Republican National Conference had said he would
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