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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R., La.) holds a press conference on Capitol
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Speaker Mike Johnson is in a bind. His party’s sacrifice of former
representative George Santos’s seat in last night’s special election not only
truncates the GOP’s already paper-thin House majority, it further confirms that
Democrats can rely on a dedicated base of high-propensity voters -- a contingent
that used to favor Republicans. That’s depressing, and Johnson has to buck up
his deflated conference. But the way in which he chose to do that was not at all
convincing:

https://twitter.com/kadiagoba/status/1757792269942284341?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

None of this is especially reassuring if you devote any thought to their
implications.

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