{"id":2424,"date":"2024-11-13T16:18:01","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/trump-endorses-johnson-hours-ahead-of-gop-speaker-vote\/"},"modified":"2024-11-13T16:18:01","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T16:18:01","slug":"trump-endorses-johnson-hours-ahead-of-gop-speaker-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/trump-endorses-johnson-hours-ahead-of-gop-speaker-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump endorses Johnson hours ahead of GOP speaker vote"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President-elect Donald Trump appeared to back Mike Johnson’s speakership bid during his visit with the House GOP Wednesday morning, hours ahead of an internal party leadership vote, according to five people in the room.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe said, \u2018I am with him all the way,\u2019\u201d according to two people.<\/p>\n

Trump is meeting with House Republicans hours before an internal leadership election where they are expected to elect Johnson as their speaker nominee. That election will be conducted via secret ballot and only requires a simple majority.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a significant boost for Johnson, who has tied himself closely to the incoming president and needs his support in order to win the gavel in a tougher Jan. 3 vote, when Johnson will need near-unanimous support from House Republicans to officially become speaker. But Trump\u2019s endorsement isn\u2019t a surprise \u2014 both the Louisiana Republican and his critics predicted that Trump would give Johnson his support during the closed-door meeting.<\/p>\n

Johnson predicted it in a brief interview with Blue Light News Tuesday night, saying: \u201cHe\u2019s been talking very publicly everywhere about this, so I expect he\u2019ll do it again tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump holds significant sway over the House GOP conference. His endorsement of Johnson could force the speaker\u2019s opponents to decide if having a months-long fight over the speakership and their demands on certain House rules is worth crossing Trump. And Johnson\u2019s allies bet conservatives won\u2019t want to be seen as an impediment to Trump\u2019s agenda as he assumes power with likely both chambers of Congress under GOP control. <\/p>\n

Rep. Eli Crane (R-Ariz.), a conservative who has previously expressed doubts about Johnson\u2019s leadership, indicated after Trump\u2019s endorsement that he would back the speaker.<\/p>\n

He said Trump should get \u201cthe team he wants on the field.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Trump\u2019s endorsement might shrink Johnson\u2019s opposition, it\u2019s not going to completely dissipate. House conservatives are still planning to force an internal vote on his speakership on Wednesday afternoon, instead of letting Johnson be nominated by a voice vote that would allow him to claim unanimous support. <\/p>\n

Johnson also lavished praise on Trump during the closed-door meeting, calling him a \u201csingular figure in American history.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey used to call Bill Clinton the comeback kid, [Trump] is the comeback king,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n

Later on, Trump remarked to Johnson, according to a person in the room: \u201cMike you\u2019re going to have a tremendous year. Tremendous two years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Then, he said to the room: \u201cGet it all done. Unify.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Donald Trump appeared to back Mike Johnson’s speakership bid during his visit with the House GOP Wednesday morning, hours ahead of an internal party leadership vote, according to five people in the room. \u201cHe said, \u2018I am with him all the way,\u2019\u201d according to two people. Trump is meeting with House Republicans hours before […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}