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| "But you're right -- there has been a lot of talk about how staunchly anti-abortion and anti-gay-marriage he is, and especially about how he voted not to certify the results of the 2020 election." | Positive | 22% Conservative |
| "It started in part as a proxy for GOP disagreements over spending and distrust with the party establishment, but ended with conservatives tanking Emmer's candidacy in part because of his votes last year to codify the right to same-sex marriage and his lack of closeness with Donald Trump." | Negative | -38% Liberal |
| "I thought the number of McCarthy votes was fascinating." | Positive | 28% Conservative |
| "So if you're wondering why the most rightward flank of the party was happy to support Johnson, just look there." | Positive | 24% Conservative |
| "Most of the most well-known speaker candidates had about as much experience as or even less than Johnson: Emmer (fifth term), Donalds (second), Hern (fourth term, including a short stint in the 115th Congress) and Green (third)." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Most of the most well-known speaker candidates had about as much experience as or even less than Johnson: Emmer (fifth term), Donalds (second), Hern (fourth term, including a short stint in the 115th Congress) and Green (third)." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Most of the most well-known speaker candidates had about as much experience as or even less than Johnson: Emmer (fifth term), Donalds (second), Hern (fourth term, including a short stint in the 115th Congress) and Green (third)." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Most of the most well-known speaker candidates had about as much experience as or even less than Johnson: Emmer (fifth term), Donalds (second), Hern (fourth term, including a short stint in the 115th Congress) and Green (third)." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Most of the most well-known speaker candidates had about as much experience as or even less than Johnson: Emmer (fifth term), Donalds (second), Hern (fourth term, including a short stint in the 115th Congress) and Green (third)." | Positive | 20% Conservative |
| "Johnson was a member of party leadership, after all." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "That got the conference behind Johnson and set up his win on Wednesday." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "I suspect a wait-and-see approach will be best for getting a read on Johnson's fundraising ability." | Positive | 18% Conservative |
| "Again, this takes us back to the most right-wing flank of the GOP objecting to McCarthy in January and then Emmer earlier this week in the internal conference votes for speaker." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "Again, this takes us back to the most right-wing flank of the GOP objecting to McCarthy in January and then Emmer earlier this week in the internal conference votes for speaker." | Positive | 14% Conservative |
| "If you woke up on Wednesday and Googled, Who is Mike Johnson?, Sen. Susan Collins can relate." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "If you woke up on Wednesday and Googled, Who is Mike Johnson?, Sen. Susan Collins can relate." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "That's the normal position within the party right now -- of the GOP speaker candidates, only Emmer and Georgia Rep. Austin Scott voted to certify the results." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "That's the normal position within the party right now -- of the GOP speaker candidates, only Emmer and Georgia Rep. Austin Scott voted to certify the results." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "It's pretty remarkable in a historical sense just how little experience Johnson, who is in his fourth term, has compared to most past speakers." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "(Massie, for his part, was one of the last potential holdouts from the right, voting present in conference but supporting Johnson on the floor.)" | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "(Massie, for his part, was one of the last potential holdouts from the right, voting present in conference but supporting Johnson on the floor.)" | Positive | 6% Conservative |
| "After Emmer promptly withdrew in the face of opposition, Johnson secured the nomination in another ballot that evening, to the immense relief of exhausted fellow Republicans." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "After Emmer promptly withdrew in the face of opposition, Johnson secured the nomination in another ballot that evening, to the immense relief of exhausted fellow Republicans." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "To what extent did the establishment wing cave, versus actually being OK with a Speaker Johnson?" | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "On Tuesday night, Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie said, He's uniquely positioned to lose 30 votes on either side of the conference." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "How big a win is this for conservatives in the House GOP?geoffrey.skelley (Geoffrey Skelley, senior elections analyst): Johnson is interesting because he was very close to the House Freedom Caucus, if not formally a member of it (the group has never made its membership list public)." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "Yeah, in that sense the more moderate members did cave -- 44 Republicans voted for other on the third ballot for speaker nominee on Tuesday evening, and it turned out that 43 were for McCarthy." | Positive | 0% Conservative |
| "I mean, let us not forget that McCarthy also voted to object to certifying the results." | Negative | -2% Liberal |
| "The fourth-term congressman flew somewhat under the radar heading into Tuesday's GOP conference votes and received only 34 votes on the first secret ballot, but was the second-highest vote getter in all five ballots that morning, ultimately receiving 97 votes to Majority Whip Tom Emmer's 117." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "They obviously view getting Johnson over a Steve Scalise or Tom Emmer as a win." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "They obviously view getting Johnson over a Steve Scalise or Tom Emmer as a win." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "They obviously view getting Johnson over a Steve Scalise or Tom Emmer as a win." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Oh, there's one underrated area where Johnson could be a liability, though: fundraising." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "But Johnson has a very thin fundraising record." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "Let's pivot to another historic metric -- Johnson's relative inexperience." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "I looked back, and the last time someone became speaker who had as short a tenure as Johnson was in 1883, when the House elected Democratic Rep. John G. Carlisle of Kentucky as speaker." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Johnson checks a lot of boxes that earned him support from disparate wings of the GOP that had been infighting for weeks and effectively tanking other speaker-designates -- he's a hard-line social conservative and Trump ally, he's a member of the Judiciary and Armed Services committees, and he's served in a lower-level party leadership role as vice chair of the House GOP Conference." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Johnson checks a lot of boxes that earned him support from disparate wings of the GOP that had been infighting for weeks and effectively tanking other speaker-designates -- he's a hard-line social conservative and Trump ally, he's a member of the Judiciary and Armed Services committees, and he's served in a lower-level party leadership role as vice chair of the House GOP Conference." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "For example, McCarthy raised $28.3 million in 2022, just for his official campaign account (so not including his affiliated PACs)." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "He's certainly not as conservative or anti-establishment as, say, one-time speaker candidate Jim Jordan.tia.yang:" | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "But it sounds like some Republicans essentially viewed that as a sign that McCarthy might be trying to get his old job back, and so they moved to ask if members would support Johnson on the floor following the balloting instead of waiting for a meeting the following morning." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "But it sounds like some Republicans essentially viewed that as a sign that McCarthy might be trying to get his old job back, and so they moved to ask if members would support Johnson on the floor following the balloting instead of waiting for a meeting the following morning." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "However, from an electoral standpoint, I kind of think Johnson's profile might matter more if we were going into a midterm year with no presidential election at the top of the ticket." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "I think it's interesting in this chart that he's about as far from his party's median as McCarthy is, in the opposite ideological directions." | Negative | -16% Liberal |
| "Johnson, by contrast, had opposition during the speaker nomination balloting, but he ended up getting unanimous support on the floor because the Republicans who opposed Jordan (mostly less conservative members) said OK to him." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "Johnson, by contrast, had opposition during the speaker nomination balloting, but he ended up getting unanimous support on the floor because the Republicans who opposed Jordan (mostly less conservative members) said OK to him." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "For example, he's a member of the Armed Services Committee who's supported defense spending -- something that allayed the fears of defense hawks who opposed Jordan's candidacy." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "After three speakerless weeks and three failed speaker-designates, House Republicans finally united on Tuesday evening around Louisiana Rep. Mike Johnson and unanimously elected him speaker in a floor vote on Wednesday." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "However, it's worth noting that once Scalise and Jordan were off the table, a less experienced speaker was practically a given." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "However, it's worth noting that once Scalise and Jordan were off the table, a less experienced speaker was practically a given." | Negative | -20% Liberal |
| "Johnson basically won because the GOP conference seemed exhausted and just wanted the speaker fight to end." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "nrakich: I do think Johnson's inexperience could prove to be a liability, both governing-wise and electorally." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "But as you pointed out, Nathaniel, he's not as conservative as Jordan -- or, for that matter the next highest vote-getters in Tuesday's conference balloting (Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida and Kevin Hern of Oklahoma in the first round, Donalds and Mark Green of Teessee in the second)." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But as you pointed out, Nathaniel, he's not as conservative as Jordan -- or, for that matter the next highest vote-getters in Tuesday's conference balloting (Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida and Kevin Hern of Oklahoma in the first round, Donalds and Mark Green of Teessee in the second)." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But as you pointed out, Nathaniel, he's not as conservative as Jordan -- or, for that matter the next highest vote-getters in Tuesday's conference balloting (Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida and Kevin Hern of Oklahoma in the first round, Donalds and Mark Green of Teessee in the second)." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But as you pointed out, Nathaniel, he's not as conservative as Jordan -- or, for that matter the next highest vote-getters in Tuesday's conference balloting (Reps. Byron Donalds of Florida and Kevin Hern of Oklahoma in the first round, Donalds and Mark Green of Teessee in the second)." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "I think the fact that he came out on top after Emmer's collapse also contributed to this being a big narrative coming out of the speaker fight." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But I guess Democrats can say stuff like, Rep. Mike Lawler voted to make Mike Johnson, who said homosexuality leads to pedophilia, speaker of the House." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "There's no question that Johnson's anonymity could make it easier for Democrats to define him." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "But in this, Johnson is hardly alone." | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "Is this going to be one way Johnson's decentralized leadership takes form?" | Negative | -26% Liberal |
| "For years, Republicans have been ruing attack ads linking vulnerable House Democrats to former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and I'm not sure how much those have really moved the needle." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "Several Democratic members and advocacy groups quickly labeled Johnson as Jim Jordan with a jacket, but that's not necessarily reflected in his voting record." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Several Democratic members and advocacy groups quickly labeled Johnson as Jim Jordan with a jacket, but that's not necessarily reflected in his voting record." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "And second, I think it's risky electorally because Johnson simply hasn't been vetted." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Yeah, I mean, I do think that some of Johnson's positions and past comments (like saying homosexuality leads to pedophilia) lend themselves well to Democratic attack ads." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "Essentially, in a midterm year you might've seen Democrats ruing against Johnson and a more conservative, potentially combative House." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "So, I'm not sure how much Johnson is going to matter in the grand scheme of things." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "Both the establishment and insurgent wings of the party put up a fight and torpedoed a few candidates (McCarthy, Scalise, Jordan, Emmer), but in the end it was the establishment wing that caved and said, Yeah, OK, this guy is fine -- this isn't worth the headache of more dysfunction.tia.yang:" | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Both the establishment and insurgent wings of the party put up a fight and torpedoed a few candidates (McCarthy, Scalise, Jordan, Emmer), but in the end it was the establishment wing that caved and said, Yeah, OK, this guy is fine -- this isn't worth the headache of more dysfunction.tia.yang:" | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Both the establishment and insurgent wings of the party put up a fight and torpedoed a few candidates (McCarthy, Scalise, Jordan, Emmer), but in the end it was the establishment wing that caved and said, Yeah, OK, this guy is fine -- this isn't worth the headache of more dysfunction.tia.yang:" | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "Both the establishment and insurgent wings of the party put up a fight and torpedoed a few candidates (McCarthy, Scalise, Jordan, Emmer), but in the end it was the establishment wing that caved and said, Yeah, OK, this guy is fine -- this isn't worth the headache of more dysfunction.tia.yang:" | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "It started in part as a proxy for GOP disagreements over spending and distrust with the party establishment, but ended with conservatives tanking Emmer's candidacy in part because of his votes last year to codify the right to same-sex marriage and his lack of closeness with Donald Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "It started in part as a proxy for GOP disagreements over spending and distrust with the party establishment, but ended with conservatives tanking Emmer's candidacy in part because of his votes last year to codify the right to same-sex marriage and his lack of closeness with Donald Trump." | Negative | -28% Liberal |
| "First, he obviously lacks the deep relationships on the Hill with people like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "First, he obviously lacks the deep relationships on the Hill with people like Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McCoell." | Negative | -6% Liberal |
| "According to DW-NOMINATE, a political-science metric that quantifies politicians' ideologies based on their roll-call votes, Johnson is both more conservative and more anti-establishment than former Speaker Kevin McCarthy." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "According to DW-NOMINATE, a political-science metric that quantifies politicians' ideologies based on their roll-call votes, Johnson is both more conservative and more anti-establishment than former Speaker Kevin McCarthy." | Negative | -58% Liberal |
| "The growing prospect of a McCarthy return or a play by moderate Democrats to empower acting Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry or, worse, elect a compromise speaker candidate, very well could have pushed some of conservatives (like Massie) firmly into Johnson's camp." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "The growing prospect of a McCarthy return or a play by moderate Democrats to empower acting Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry or, worse, elect a compromise speaker candidate, very well could have pushed some of conservatives (like Massie) firmly into Johnson's camp." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "The growing prospect of a McCarthy return or a play by moderate Democrats to empower acting Speaker Pro Tempore Patrick McHenry or, worse, elect a compromise speaker candidate, very well could have pushed some of conservatives (like Massie) firmly into Johnson's camp." | Negative | -68% Liberal |
| "Around 25 Republicans said they wouldn't support Emmer -- spurred on by Trump, who opposed Emmer -- and they mostly came from the party's far right." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "Around 25 Republicans said they wouldn't support Emmer -- spurred on by Trump, who opposed Emmer -- and they mostly came from the party's far right." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
| "Around 25 Republicans said they wouldn't support Emmer -- spurred on by Trump, who opposed Emmer -- and they mostly came from the party's far right." | Negative | -70% Liberal |
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61% : But you're right -- there has been a lot of talk about how staunchly anti-abortion and anti-gay-marriage he is, and especially about how he voted not to certify the results of the 2020 election.31% : It started in part as a proxy for GOP disagreements over spending and distrust with the party establishment, but ended with conservatives tanking Emmer's candidacy in part because of his votes last year to codify the right to same-sex marriage and his lack of closeness with Donald Trump.
*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.