Washington | US Republicans nominated conservative lawyer Mike Johnson to lead the House of Representatives on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT), though it was unclear whether he would merely become the latest hopeful to fall victim to party infighting that has paralysed Congress for over three weeks.
Mr Johnson, of Louisiana, is the fourth Republican this month to win the party’s nomination for the speaker’s chair, which has sat vacant since a small faction of party rebels ousted Kevin McCarthy on October 3.
