Johnson’s election on Wednesday ended a period of chaos in the House of Commons since Kevin McCarthy was fired on October 3 in a historic motion by the chamber’s most conservative wing.
All media outlets covered the voting process, in which the vice president of the House Republican Conference managed to win the support of his colleagues after three candidates for the office failed to advance.
Tom Emmer, Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan were the nominees ahead of Johnson, who failed the test of getting at least 217 votes to lift the gavel.
The 56th President of the House of Representatives received 220 votes in his favor and Democratic Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (New York) called him an “extremist.”
“Johnson has a very pleasant demeanor in the way he communicates, but his voting record is, with very few exceptions, as extreme as the most extreme members of his caucus,” he warned.
The United States Congress consists of the Senate (upper house with 100 seats) and the House of Representatives (lower house), which has 435 seats, of which 222 are for Republicans (a narrow majority) and 213 for Democrats.
Newsweek also highlighted the double mass shooting that occurred Wednesday evening in the town of Lewiston, Maine (Northeast), in which 18 people died and 13 were injured.
The attacker, Robert Card, 40, a firearms expert and U.S. Army reservist who suffered from mental health problems, was found dead after an intensive two-day search that mobilized hundreds of police and media.
The authorities announced this Friday the identities of the 18 deceased, whose ages ranged from 14 to 76 years.
Maine police said seven people died Wednesday at the Just-In-Time Recreation bowling alley, eight at the Schemenges Bar and Grille and three others at area hospitals.
Some reports allege Card used an AR-15, the weapon most commonly used by shooters here, according to Washington Post data.
A Post and Ipsos survey found that one in 20 adults in the United States, or nearly 16 million people nationwide, owns an AR-15 rifle.
This rifle was used in at least 10 of the 17 deadliest mass shootings in the country since 2012, including the massacres in Las Vegas (2017), Sandy Hook (2012), Parkland (2018), and Uvalde (2022). influential newspaper.
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