Of course it was a close vote. The GOP majority is razor thin. Every good vote – meaning votes that the Dems oppose – will have to be close. What we need from the House GOP that gets its act together to focus on the big things and keep their petty power arguments off the table. The alternative is that the Dems will win over and over again because they know how to act in unison.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Mike Johnson was reelected to the chamber’s top job on Friday by a razor-thin margin that highlighted potential fissures among President-elect Donald Trump’s Republicans on Capitol Hill.

 

Johnson appeared to initially fall short of the majority he needed to retain his job in a roll-call vote that lasted nearly two hours, but two Republican opponents switched their votes to support him after lengthy negotiations, with at least one reporting receiving a call from Trump himself.