'Extraordinarily deplorable': Analyst slams GOP over 'Kraken level Big Lie' speaker choice

United States Representative Lois Frankel (D-FL) calls House Speaker-elect Mike Johnson (R-LA) the "architect of [ex-President Donald] Trump's plot to overturn the election."

Still, every House Republican voted Johnson to take on the speakership Wednesday.

Deadline: White House host Nicolle Wallace asked The Bulwark Editor-In-Chief Charlie Sykes about his thoughts on the Louisiana lawmaker's new appointment.

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"Yeah that's Kraken level big lie stuff," Sykes said. "Look, the bottom line here is, and [former U.S. Rep.] Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) by the way texted me this morning that Mike Johnson is [Judiciary Committee Chariman] Jim Jordan (R-OH) in drag. But this is a huge victory for [U.S. Rep.] Matt Gaetz (R-FL) because the center did not hold. There was a moment where it looked like there might be a rump of 'normies' or so-called moderates in the party that were going to say 'no' to Jim Jordan."

He continued, "But the squishes ultimately did what squishes do. They caved in. What is extraordinary is that as extreme as Mike Johnson is, the vote was unanimous. Not one Republican voted against him, despite the role that he played in the coup attempt. The reason why [Majority Whip] Tom Emmer (R-IN) is not the speaker, and Mike Johnson is, is because Tom Emmer voted to certify [President] Joe Biden's win and Mike Johnson was one of the leaders of the coup attempt. Not just a guarantee variety election denialist, but as you just played, somebody who was spreading the kinds of lies that cost Fox [News] so much money, and that [ex-Trump lawyers] Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell are now admitting in Georgia courtrooms were lies, were part of a criminal conspiracy to overturn the election. By the way, how about this, for a split screen: They are — they are pleading guilty to criminal offenses for saying and doing the same things that Mike Johnson has now used as a ladder to rise to the speakership. But keep in mind, though, that this dysfunction in the Republican party is going to continue. It was, to quote Joe Biden, are a very much an inflection point, and no joke. Every single Republican voted for one of their most extreme members and somebody who played a rather extraordinarily deplorable role in attempt to overturn the 2020 election."

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