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House Speaker Mike Johnson won’t stay on as Republican leader after GOP losses

House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, R-La., and Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, have already jumped in to run for Johnson’s place.

What the coverage shows

All seven outlets converge on Mike Johnson stepping aside from the House GOP leadership race after Republican losses, with NBC News, ABC News, The Hill and CBS News all attributing the decision to a staff call or sources close to it. The framing diverges mainly in how much they stress the fallout: Axios and The Hill foreground a scramble or battle for the next leader, while Fox News also publishes separate items on Johnson’s re-election and on Jim Jordan and Steve Scalise as potential rivals. Newsweek is the only outlet here that uses a more generic “major announcement” framing in its headline.

Written by Crossfiled from the 2 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.

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