Johnson other than wanting to try to do something for his legacy or understand the consequence of the vote is that if you if you dont put your leadership to the test on issues like this you are probably youre going to lose your job anyway, right . And so the reality is that he needs that democratic coalition to help him govern as long as the rules allow one or two republicans to end is leadership. Yeah. So speaking of democrats and what they need to do, Congressmen Gerry Connolly he was on cnn over the weekend and he was not so charitable towards johnson, listened to what he said i dont think we owe speaker johnson anything. His views on gay rights, gun rights, womens, reproductive Rights Voting rights our, and, of course, the certification of the election of Joe Biden are antithetical to everything we hold dear as democratic so he
Says, i dont think we owe speaker johnson anything, but i mean, my sense of my reporting is that they are democrats were open to and this would be more explicit than voting with him am on policy, right . They would have to say if Marjorie Taylor greene foster her threat, democrats would have to actively support him, right . Do you think they would mean its a big question, but its like it is transactional. Its not that they are embracing Mike Johnson as a person whose policies they agree with. Its a matter of getting a bare minimum of things done right now. And yeah, johnson remains aligned with donald trump. Johnson waited all of these months and you heard ukrainian President Zelenskyy over the weekend saying, essentially saying it is its been very, very long. Were very grateful to have it, but these delays make a difference. Theyre still waiting on things that were approved your ago. So even the amount of time it took them to get them to the spot has cost the ukrainians quite a bit of