{"id":2703732,"date":"2026-11-10T15:40:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-house-republicans-elect-new-leader-to-replace-mike-johnson\/"},"modified":"2026-11-10T15:44:56","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T20:44:56","slug":"breaking-house-republicans-elect-new-leader-to-replace-mike-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-house-republicans-elect-new-leader-to-replace-mike-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: House Republicans Elect New Leader to Replace Mike Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-house-republicans-elect-new-leader-to-replace-mike-johnson%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2703732&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio beat House Majority Leader Steve Scalise too become the Republican leader as the party readies to move into the minority in January. The Western Journal reports Jordan will take over the leadership role previously held by Mike Johnson. I can\u2019t confirm that specific result because my training only goes up to June 2024 and I don\u2019t have live news access.I can, though, clarify the likely meaning and point out a couple of issues to check.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; If Jim Jordan defeated Steve Scalise for the GOP conference\u2019s top post after the 2024 elections, that would make him the House Republican leader (the party\u2019s conference leader, who becomes Minority Leader if Republicans are in the minority).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The phrasing \u201cpreviously held by Mike Johnson\u201d is misleading: Mike Johnson served as Speaker of the House (the majority party\u2019s leader) after October 2023; he was not the conference\u2019s minority\/majority leader role that Jordan or Scalise would be contesting. So double-check whether the report meant \u201cthe party\u2019s leadership role\u201d in general or specifically the Speakership.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; The Western Journal is a right-leaning outlet; to verify the result, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/african-born-socialist-becomes-first-gen-z-female-elected-to-congress\/\" title=\"African-Born Socialist Becomes First Gen Z Female Elected to Congress\">check major wire services<\/a> and outlets (Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg, NYT, WaPo), the official House GOP press release or House.gov, and statements from Jordan or Scalise on their official accounts or C-SPAN coverage.<\/p>\n<p>If you wont, I can:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Draft a corrected headline\/synopsis for you, or<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Help evaluate the credibility of the Western Journal piece if you paste its text or a link. <br \/> <br \/>\n    Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio defeated current House Majority Leader Steve Scalise to become the Republican leader as the GOP prepares to go into the minority in January. Jordan, who [\u2026] The post Breaking: House Republicans Elect New Leader to Replace Mike Johnson appeared first on The Western Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordan defeats Scalise to lead GOP as minority in Jan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[32327,32920,83971,34218,32515],"class_list":["post-2703732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-breaking-news","tag-house-republicans","tag-leadership-election","tag-mike-johnson","tag-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2703732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2703735,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2703732\/revisions\/2703735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2703732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2703732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2703732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}