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The new House speaker is Mike Johnson. Who?

Correction: A previous version of this episode incorrectly stated where Rep. Tom Emmer is from. The audio has been updated to remove the error.﻿After three long, chaotic weeks, the nation finally has a new House speaker – U.S. Rep. Mike Johnson from Louisiana. So who is he? And how did Congress get here?  Read more: On Wednesday, 220 Republicans finally chose their new House leader: a congressman from Louisiana named Mike Johnson. But the man who’s second in line for the presidency is a relative unknown, even to political insiders. Philip Bump breaks down <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/10/25/who-is-mike-johnson-house-speaker/?utm_source=podcasts&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=post-reports" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank">what is known about Rep. Johnson</a> and how House Republicans finally came together to vote for the conservative congressman. Subscribe to The Washington Post via <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/channel/washington-post-audio/id6442482183" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" target="_blank">Apple podcasts here</a>.

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