predicted the nation will “come to see the measure of” House Speaker Mike Johnson’s (R-La.) “Mike is somebody that I knew well,” Cheney said this week on “Politics Is Everything,” a podcast by the University of Virginia. Our offices were next to each other, and Mike is somebody who says that he’s committed to defending the Constitution. Johnson was elected speaker last week, breaking a weekslong stalemate that saw the GOP conference nominate and then fail to elect three other candidates. The Louisiana Republican was so little-known before his nomination that some lawmakers admitted they had to Google him.

Source: Huffington Post November 02, 2023 18:22 UTC