With a successful vote today to return Speaker of the US House Mike Johnson to leadership in the new Congress, an interesting story is coming out tonight noting that South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson helped convince members of the freedom caucus to join the majority of Republicans on the vote:
Although Johnson had convinced several conservative holdouts to back his bid, Freedom Caucus members Reps. Ralph Norman and Keith Self joined Rep. Thomas Massie to deny Johnson the gavel — and about a half dozen other Freedom Caucus members signaled they may be a problem on subsequent ballots, after initially not voting when it was their turn.
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While a number of important conversations ultimately swayed the holdouts — one source pointed out that Rep. Dusty Johnson was “uniquely well-spoken” and critical in convincing Freedom Caucus holdouts to back Johnson — Trump’s voice was undoubtedly the most important.
Watching dusty overtrying to butch up his conservative credentials will never not be entertaining. Take a drink everytime he says Trump.
Or you could just say “Good job, Dusty,”
Yep He used to be a practical evenhanded person. Now he is a Trump lackey like the majority of the not so GOP
Dusty is trusted. That’s why he’s the main guy cutting these deals between the Speaker and the Freedom Caucus. It’s fun to watch.
https://youtu.be/FEr2fvmB9qg?feature=shared
it would be more fun to watch if it had some captions though
Oh boy, he had to hold his nose that close to MTG!!