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The former Republican speaker's hasty departure leaves his voters in the Central Valley in the lurch, but apparently that doesn't matter anymore.
Rep. Patrick McHenry, a North Carolina Republican who has served as a loyal lieutenant in the House leadership and temporarily served as House speaker after the ouster of Rep. Kevin McCarthy, announced his retirement Tuesday.
The transition of House speakership from McCarthy, a proud but subdued Christian, to Johnson, a fervently devout evangelical, highlights the religious right’s dominance of the evangelical GOP coalition.
After their party was decimated in the 2008 elections, mainstream Republican leaders believed they could harness rising far-right populist forces. Instead, they were overrun by them.