Johnson won the nomination Tuesday with the support of 128 Republicans, far short of the 217 GOP votes he needs to win the speakership on the House floor.
Johnson is the fourth nominee the GOP has put forward in recent weeks as the deeply divided party struggles to coalesce behind a leader.
Johnson later said that in a second internal vote, after he was nominated, every member in the room had backed Johnson's bid, including those who initially voted for other candidates. The Louisiana Republican's nomination Tuesday came just hours after Majority Whip Tom Emmer was forced to abandon his bid for speaker.
Emmer was a relative moderate compared to many Republicans in the conference, a fact that drew the ire of key members of his party who identify as hardline conservatives. In 2020, Johnson publicly doubted Biden's election victories in Pennsylvania and Arizona, and he filed a legal brief in support of a lawsuit that sought to block the certification of Biden's victories in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin.
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