MSNBC host Nicolle Wallace broke down on air following the election of new House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), calling him an “anti-abortion extremist.”
“Republicans have finally elected a Speaker. All it took was four votes on the floor of the House, four Republican nominees for Speaker, three weeks of total paralysis in Congress and an international disgrace for America, the man now in charge of steering Americans through global crises and a looming deadline to fund the government, Louisiana Republican Mike Government,” the MSNBC host said during Wednesday’s edition of Deadline after Mike Johnson secured the speakership.
A clip was then played of House Republicans laughing off an ABC reporter’s question about Johnson’s vote to object to the electoral certification in 2020.
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Wallace was outraged when one House Republican told the reporter to “shut up.”
The host then claimed Johnson was a leader of the “coup plot” and was a key orchestrator in the plan to “overturn American Democracy” in 2020
Wallace then rambled on about the “deadly violence” on January 6, failing to note that people who died were Trump supporters.
“It should be no surprise that going into today’s vote, Johnson appeared to have the blessing of Donald Trump,” she said.
“Why not? He last night said on his site, Truth Social, that he wasn’t endorsing a candidate per se, but suggested that Republicans should go with Mike Johnson,” Wallace continued.
She then turned to Republican Stuart Stevens, who described Johnson as “Jim Jordan, but he wears a jacket.”
“It’s the same thing. You know, there’s just nothing here that is about governing. There’s not any sense that could unify these people,” Stevens said.
“I mean, back when we worked for the party, I think you could say that it was somebody could stand up there and say, look, you may not like me. You may not agree with me, but we have important stuff to do,” Stevens said.
“So what is there important stuff to do? Investigate Hunter Biden’s laptop? I mean, when you think about it, the person who’s third in line to the presidency doesn’t believe the current president is legally elected, so doesn’t believe we live in a democracy and believes that we live in an occupied country. That’s kind of difficult to wrap your mind around.”
MSNBC’s Capitol Hill reporter Ali Vitali t complained Johnson refused to answer when asked if Joe Biden is the legitimate president.
“I shouted quite loudly about whether or not he thought the 2020 election results were legitimizing for Biden and if he believed that Biden was the legitimately elected president of the United States, and he once again ignored those questions,” Vitali said.
“And so I know that some people might say it’s in the past, but certainly January 6th and 2020 looms so large over this building every single day,” Vitali claimed.
“And now you have someone in the presidential line of succession who helped with that rationale in a key way that Republican members of Congress were using his legal bases that were of course flimsy and non-constitutional, but were trying to use them as their rationale for why they voted against certifying the election results.”
“I think that that’s extremely striking and speaks to where the party is right now.”
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MSNBC is melting over Mike Johnson.
— Citizen Free Press (@CitizenFreePres) October 25, 2023
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