'The only reason' Mike Johnson has been able to stay afloat amid GOP pushback: analyst

As House Speaker Mike Johnson faces pushback from a group of his fellow GOP lawmakers, and threats of an ouster on January 2, "one thing" is saving the congressional leader in the meantime.

Vanity Fair special correspondent and MSNBC political analyst Molly Jong Fast submitted on Monday that Democrats are the reason Johnson is able to stay afloat after negotiating with the opposing party to keep the government open.

"Mike Johnson has been really needing those Democratic votes," Fast said.

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"It's not just [House Minority Leader] Hakeem [Jeffries] (D-NY), it's the Democrats," she continued, "because you know there are about 30 Republicans who will not vote for a CR, and that's been a real problem. I would say there's a sort of an anti-government streak."

"Here's the question, right?" Fast said. "The general ethos here is to shut down the government, and you'll remember, right, that's the thing, is just to keep the government from working, to prove that the federal government is bad. I mean that's the gestalt."

"So here we are, and if you look back at Trump 1.0 in 2016, what happened? He controlled all three branches, and what did he do? He shut down the government," Fast asserted. "So, I could see that happening again. Look, Mike Johnson, has been able to keep things going, but the only reason he's been able to keep things going is because of those Democratic votes."

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