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Of course a shutdown was going to be bad for Republicans.
“Speaker Mike Johnson needed to convince former President Donald Trump that a shutdown could hurt their party on Election Day even as the Republican presidential nominee was itching for a fight with Democrats over cracking down on non-citizens voting in elections.
So in a recent sit-down at Mar-a-Lago, Johnson showed Trump polling warning a shutdown could zap the GOP’s House majority, two sources close to the speaker said. Then, to drive home the point, Johnson pulled out a set of photographs of the GOP incumbents – many of whom Trump liked – who could lose.”