Jesus Dork Speaker Mike Johnson on Wednesday told Punchbowl’s Jake Sherman that he hopes to swear in Republican Tennessee Congressman-Elect Matt Van Epps “this week” rather than the two months he took with Dem Arizona Congresswoman Adelita Grijalva to delay the forced release of the Epstein files or even derail the discharge petition effort by getting Republican signees to back out.
On what Van Epps’s margin revealed about the GOP’s 2026 outlook, Johnson projected confidence about his conference’s ability to project confidence. Seriously. “Look, we’re about competency, calm and common sense here, we’re going to just continue to project that every day, no matter the headwinds, and the American people are going to reward that,” Johnson told Sherman. Lol.