{"id":80895,"date":"2026-11-04T10:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T15:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/mike-johnson-says-he-will-not-pursue-house-minority-leader-role-reports\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T10:55:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T15:55:14","slug":"mike-johnson-says-he-will-not-pursue-house-minority-leader-role-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/mike-johnson-says-he-will-not-pursue-house-minority-leader-role-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Johnson says he will not pursue House minority leader role \u2013 reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reported move from the Republican speaker of the House comes in light of the party\u2019s disastrous midterms defeat<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-elections-results-senate-house-michigan-maine-mississippi-latest-updates\">US midterms 2026 live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-election-results-question-answer\">Tell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House, has said he is not planning to pursue the role of minority leader once his party loses its majority in the chamber, according to multiple reports.<\/p>\n<p>Coming in light of Republicans\u2019 disastrous midterm defeat, Johnson\u2019s decision effectively yields the position of highest ranking Republican in the House to whichever member of his party can claim it.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/mike-johnson-house-leadership\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reported move from the Republican speaker of the House comes in light of the party\u2019s disastrous midterms defeat US midterms 2026 live \u2013 latest updates Tell us: what do you want to know about the midterm election results? Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House, has said he is not planning to pursue the &#8230; <a title=\"Mike Johnson says he will not pursue House minority leader role \u2013 reports\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/mike-johnson-says-he-will-not-pursue-house-minority-leader-role-reports\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Mike Johnson says he will not pursue House minority leader role \u2013 reports\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}