Relected president of the United States in November, will Donald Trump be able to sit in the Oval Office on January 20? The question deserves to be asked as the answer is, in reality, far from obvious. It depends in fact on a fact far from being acquired by the Republican: the election of the speaker (or president) of the House of Representatives, as HuffPost points out.
At the heart of what could be quite a political imbroglio is Mike Johnson. The man is not a blue: a member of the Republican Party, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 2016 and became its president in 2023. This body is one of the two components of the American legislative power, with the senate.
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He therefore does not have the wind in his sails as a major deadline looms, this Friday, January 3: the election of the speaker. Within the chamber, the Republicans only have a short lead over their Democratic rivals, 219 seats against 215. It therefore only takes a handful of elected officials, vengeful or refractory, to prevent Mike Johnson from obtaining […] Read more
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