Mike Johnson elected House speaker, ending 22 days of GOP stalemate

• The House floor vote ended on a tally of 220-209, with no Republicans voting against Johnson.
• All Democrats voted for House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.)

Zoom in: Multiple House Democrats told Axios before the vote that they were wary of a Johnson speakership.

• "He is not part of the main stream political or legal thought," Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.) told Axios' Andrew Solender. "Truly an aberrant candidate for America, but maybe not for a drowning Republican conference searching for a lifesaver."
• Johnson served as the vice chairman of the House Republican Conference and chairman of the Republican Study Committee prior to winning the nomination.
• In a memo released before the internal GOP election, Johnson said his top priorities are bringing the remaining Republican-led appropriations bills to the House floor, passing a resolution to condemn Hamas and finding a consensus within the conference for a legislative blueprint for the remainder of the term.

The intrigue: Johnson was previously defeated by House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.) who dropped out of the race, later prevailing in an internal vote.

• Johnson was the fourth GOP nominee — following Emmer, House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan and House Majority Leader Steve Scalise — in the scramble to replace McCarthy.