I think you misunderstand what I am referring to. I am referring to the second Johnson speaker vote which was in March and filed by MTG. They didn’t know the results of the election nor did they want to get unfairly blamed for republican dysfunction in said election as often happens

Fair enough. I had assumed they were willing to help him now, which would be a whole new level of stupid.

In what world would you even trust Johnson to keep his word

The rules that republicans agreed on let all house members, including dems, call for a motion to vacate the speaker. Only needed a singular representative to do so and given that there were plenty of republicans willing to get rid of him, so they had some leverage over him

I could be wrong and admittedly am too lazy to look it up, but I believe that it had to be a single Republican member. Allowing a single Democrat to make the motion to vacate the chair would just be introducing all sorts of chaos. And if they were allowed to do this and weren’t taking advantage of it on the daily, then that’s a massive fail on their part. With all of the infighting in the GOP, I’d be making the motion to vacate daily even if only for my own entertainment, because the deathmatch that would happen every time there’s a vote for a new speaker would be better than anything WWE could put on.

And to clarify the House Dems in the original article are talking about his next speaker vote come the start of next year

I should hope so. There shouldn’t be a single Democrat being willing to vote for anyone but Jeffries for any reason.