Left-wing MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace joined other Democrats in berating newly elected House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), calling him an “anti-abortion extremist” that doesn’t “believe in Democracy.”
“Republicans have finally elected a Speaker. All it took was four votes on the floor of the House, four Republican nominees for Speaker, three weeks of total paralysis in Congress and an international disgrace for America, the man now in charge of steering Americans through global crises and a looming deadline to fund the government, Louisiana Republican Mike Government,” Wallace complained.
Wallace went on to say that Johnson played a major role in a “coup plot” to “overturn American Democracy” after the 2020 election, and then pointed to the “deadly violence” of the January 6th riot at the Capitol.
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“It should be no surprise that going into today’s vote, Johnson appeared to have the blessing of Donald Trump. Why not?” she continued.
“He last night said on his site, Truth Social, that he wasn’t endorsing a candidate per se, but suggested that Republicans should go with Mike Johnson,” she added.
“It’s the same thing. You know, there’s just nothing here that is about governing,” Republican strategist Stuart Stevens pitched in.
“There’s not any sense that could unify these people. I mean, back when we worked for the party, I think you could say that it was somebody could stand up there and say, look, you may not like me. You may not agree with me, but we have important stuff to do,” he added.
“So what is there important stuff to do? Investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop? I mean, when you think about it, the person who’s third in line to the presidency doesn’t believe the current president is legally elected, so doesn’t believe we live in a democracy and believes that we live in an occupied country. That’s kind of difficult to wrap your mind around.”
