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'Unprecedented' chaos in House GOP if Johnson gets the boot: CNN data reporter

The ouster of House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last year by a handful of renegade Republicans triggered weeks of chaos and paralysis in Congress. But that's nothing to how bad it would be if House Speaker Mike Johnson gets the boot now, election forecaster Harry Enten told CNN's John Berman on Wednesday.

This comes as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is threatening to call such a vote if Johnson moves ahead with mounting pressure to vote on renewing defense aid to Ukraine — something he has resisted for weeks under threats from GOP hardliners, but is increasingly searching for a compromise on to break the impasse. Johnson has defied calls by Greene and her allies to resign.

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'Republicans should do their damn job': Georgia governor slams House GOP’s 'bickering'

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp (R) is publicly condemning the effort by far-right members of the House Republican Conference to remove House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from his position.

In a post to X, Kemp threw his weight behind Johnson, quote-tweeting a post by Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) in which he indicated he would support the effort to strip Johnson of the gavel.

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Mike Johnson ran voter bill by right-wing influencers before introducing it: report

Long before House Speaker Mike Johnson's voter registration bill was announced, high profile right-wing social media influencers were briefed on its details in an apparent coordinated effort to hype the proposed law, according to a new report.

A wave of influencer posts circulated social media before the bill was publicly announced at a joint press conference Johnson held with former President Donald Trump on Friday, most of them calling on Congress to pass it, NBC News reported Tuesday.

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‘I have a bucket of water’: Dem vows to save Johnson from GOP that wants ‘world to burn'

Mike Johnson can count on at least some Democrats to save his job after a second Republican announced he supports U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's efforts to remove the embattled GOP Speaker of the House. Weeks ago Greene filed a motion to "vacate the chair," which she can call up at any time to force a vote that could lead to Johnson losing his gavel.

"I just told Mike Johnson in conference that I’m cosponsoring the Motion to Vacate," U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) declared late Tuesday morning. "He should pre-announce his resignation (as Boehner did), so we can pick a new Speaker without ever being without a GOP Speaker."

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'You should have deported her': Marjorie Taylor Greene's bizarre statement on Laken Riley

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) mistakenly suggested that Laken Riley should have been deported before her alleged murder at the hands of an undocumented migrant.

Greene made the remark Tuesday during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing with DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.

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Republican dodges when asked if ousting Speaker Johnson makes his party look strong

WASHINGTON — Kentucky Republican Congressman Thomas Massie spoke to Raw Story Tuesday, minutes after announcing he would add his name to a Marjorie Taylor Greene motion to oust Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) from power.

Answering questions from reporters on Tuesday, Massie, a member of the far-right wing of the GOP conference, said that the party is angry over Johnson passing the budget bill and foreign surveillance legislation.

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Push to oust Mike Johnson as speaker strengthens as Marjorie Taylor Greene gets co-sponsor

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has a new ally in her threatened motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA).

Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), a far-right backbench lawmaker known for frequently butting heads with leadership, announced on X that he will co-sponsor Greene's resolution, which has not yet been filed and which Greene is currently holding over Johnson's head as a threat.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says Trump won't stop her efforts to oust Mike Johnson: reporter

Former President Donald Trump gave House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) a vote of confidence when they held a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago last week, implicitly rebuking Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for her threats to oust him from power.

But Greene is not deterred from her war with the speaker, CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju reports.

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'He’ll be 82 years old. Is that what you want?' GOP official frets over a Trump 2028 run

A Republican party official who was a founder of her state's "Women for Trump" advocacy group is admitting she is not enthused with the former president's third bid for the Oval Office and hopes that, if he doesn't win, he will just go away.

According to a profile in the Guardian digging into Donald Trump's voter woes in the key swing state of Wisconsin, local activist Terri Burl bluntly admitted she is "not excited" by the 2024 campaign and is making a unique pitch to some "Never Trump" Republicans that Trump will go away afterward they give him just one more chance to beat President Joe Biden.

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'Mike Johnson thinks Trump is a hardened criminal': Analyst breaks down press conference

"MAGA" Mike Johnson secretly thinks Donald Trump is a "hardened criminal," according to a body language analyst who broke down the Republicans' recent press conference.

Dr. Jack Brown, who previously analyzed the GOP debaters and found them presenting "insincerity and chronic deception," noted that Johnson had "traveled to Florida," where the "Speaker of the House met with Donald Trump today at Mar-a-Lago."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend says he doesn't 'want to get sued' for election claims

"Pennsylvania is great!" Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend shouted as he walked down the line of people who hope to attend Saturday's rally in the state. Moments later, he was saying he doesn't want to be sued and dodging questions of election integrity.

Right Side Broadcasting Network's Brian Glenn is known as the boyfriend of the far-right lawmaker who recently threatened to take the gavel from House Speaker Mike Johnson. On Saturday, however, Glenn was interviewing Trump rally attendees for RSBN's live feed.

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'No evidence': Fox host shreds Trump and Mike Johnson’s 'null and void' voter fraud claims

On Friday, former President Donald Trump and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) gave a joint press conference at Mar-a-Lago to introduce an initiative aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting. But one Fox News host slammed that policy proposal as a red herring.

Johnson joined Trump for the press conference in the wake of Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) threatening to bring a motion to vacate to the floor of the House of Representatives in protest of Johnson's bipartisan efforts to keep the federal government open. Trump made it clear that Johnson had his support, despite Greene saying on Friday that the speaker was "full of sh--" during an interview with former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon.

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Former FBI official accuses Marjorie Taylor Greene of spreading foreign propaganda

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is spreading the propaganda of American adversaries on social media, knowing those countries will amplify her messages for impact they wouldn’t otherwise have, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s former assistant director for counterintelligence.

In Monday’s debut of The Defiant Podcast with Brooklyn Dad Defiant, shared in advance with Raw Story, Frank Figliuzzi tells host Majid Padellan, “What we’ve caught Russia and China doing … is they’ll take a statement from Marjorie Taylor Green — or someone like her, someone who doesn’t deserve a particular amount of attention — and then those foreign intelligence services amplify it across social media.

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