Sure. But, but the Speaker doesn’t have any more influence on that vote in the House than anyone else does. They vote by state delegations. Which probably still won’t bode well for Harris, but Mike Johnson won’t have anything to do with it any more than any other Republican Representative. Also, as pointed out above, assuming Democrats retake the House, the Speaker by then may well be Hakeem Jeffries.
I don’t think it will come to that, though. I’m pretty sure the Harris team already has teams of attorneys in place, with lawsuits already drafter, ready to be filed on November 6 if those states you mentioned are delaying the counting of votes, and, later, the certifying of results. And I remain oddly hopeful that Harris will win by such a large margin that none of that will matter. I don’t think we’re done seeing absolutely batshit stuff coming out of the Trump camp. I think he’s going to do or say something in October that starts turning off even his base. I also have a sneaky suspicion the Harris camp is sitting on a GW Bush endorsement that he will go public with in October.
