House Republicans coalesced around Friday to reelect him as House speaker after a tumultuous vote.The speedy reelection of Johnson, 52, to the speakership means that Republicans avoided the embarrassing pitfall of taking days to elect a leader - as was the case two years ago when they burned through 15 ballots over five days before finally settling on former Speaker .Republicans ultimately sided with Johnson despite some discontents dramatically voting against the speaker at the outset.
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