Mike Johnson

It's not a close majority.

Hakeem Jeffries is going to have a hell of an easier time than Mike Johnson ever did, who, by the way, is not running for leadership again.

Currently, as we record on Thursday, we're looking at about 240 seats, many left still to call, most looking very positive for the Democrats.

So he's going to have a nice, cushy majority, Mr. Hakeem Jeffries, first black Speaker of the House over in the House of Representatives.

I just think these results say we're looking for freshness and change.

And so I think the existing leadership of both parties should turn over.

I think Mike Johnson made a good call here.

The first good call I thought Mike Johnson has made in a while, you know, by stepping back.

World's Harrison Watters reports now from Washington.

With House Speaker Mike Johnson saying he's not interested in the job, Republicans are lining up behind two other candidates, current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise and Jim Jordan, who chairs the Judiciary Committee.

Jordan told colleagues he knows the Democrat playbook on investigations and will unite a fractured Republican caucus.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Andy Harris agrees.

But he also asked GOP committee chairs to prepare for two hard years of defending the Trump administration against Democrat-led investigations.

Scalise and Jordan also faced off a few years ago over the Speaker's gavel.

Republicans couldn't decide between them, leading members to elect Mike Johnson as Speaker.

Members will vote for minority leader on Tuesday.

But we will know more in two months when the new rules for the chamber are adopted.

And are you expecting with this incoming Congress, we assume that there won't be a repeat of the issues with the last election of the Speaker when Mike Johnson ran into so many difficulties and they had goodness knows how many rounds of voting before he eventually secured his position.

We're expecting Hakeem Jeffries, I think, to be Speaker in the new Congress.

But are you anticipating... quite a number of reforms to both the chamber and the party rules? Because the last time there was an electoral wave of this scale was, people are saying, is 1974 in the aftermath of Watergate.

I don't know about you,

but I haven't heard too much from Mike Johnson.

Where's Mike Johnson at right now?

Oh, he's on

Grindr.

Well, they don't have the time anyway.

So it wouldn't be a surprise.

But Mike Johnson is going to be interesting to see what happens.

i it's going to be interesting to see how things progress because the two months before the inaugurations or the swearing in of these people is going to go very fast there's a lot of people talking about donald trump trying to going to be trying to do some things before the new congress comes in there was also about you

but i don't i i haven't heard too much from mike johnson where Where's Mike Johnson at right now? Never mind.

He's on Grindr.

Never mind.

They just don't show up when they're supposed to.

Well, they don't have the time anyway, so it wouldn't be a surprise.

But Mike Johnson is going to be interesting to see what happens.

He'll go back to being just another rep. He's going to go do

And it was it was really funny.

A few days before the election on Halloween, Mike Johnson made this proclamation.

I have been all over the country, my friends, and I'm feeling really good right now.

I'm telling you, the polls are wrong, OK? We're going to defy history and we are going to be celebrating big victories on Tuesday night.

And losing your job.

But hey, that'll mean he has more time to monitor his son's erections, which we know is his passion.

Mike Johnson has indicated he will not be staying on as the does not intend to stay on as minority minority leader for the Republicans.

So, yeah, he will have more time to monitor his son's erections.

Liz Warner reports.

Jeffries, who was born and raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is expected to take over for Republican Mike Johnson in January.

This after the Democrats' landslide win in Tuesday's midterm elections.

On Wednesday, Jeffries sent a letter to his colleagues formally announcing his bid.

House Democrats will hold leadership elections on November 18th.

If Jeffries is elected, he will become the first black Speaker of the House.

Meantime, there are reports current Speaker Mike Johnson will not run for House Minority Leader.

In New York, I'm Liz

Liz Warner reports.

Jeffries, who was born and raised in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, is expected to take over for Republican Mike Johnson in January.

This after the Democrats' landslide win in Tuesday's midterm elections.

On Wednesday, Jeffries sent a letter to his colleagues formally announcing his bid.

House Democrats will hold leadership elections on November 18th.

If Jeffries is elected, he will become the first black Speaker of the House.

Meantime, there are reports current Speaker Mike Johnson will not run for House Minority Leader.

I'm Liz Warner.

And Trump says he wasn't gonna do it.

Mike Johnson says we're not gonna do it.

So obviously, they don't like what MAGA's been saying about AI.

Not us.