'Welp!' Mockery immediately hits Mike Johnson as he struggles to remain speaker

Speaker Mike Johnson's (R-LA) attempt to carry over his leadership to the 119th Congress struggled to pass its first vote Friday thanks to three Tea Party Republicans — in a move with strikingly similar parallels to Speaker Kevin McCarthy's (R-CA) battle for the position in 2023.

Johnson's critics took to social media to mock his difficulties in the first vote as the speaker stormed off the House floor into the cloakroom.

The vote had come in with Democratic Rep. Hakeem Jeffries receiving215 votes...