Posted on 12/30/2024 7:31:30 AM PST by RandFan
President-elect Trump offered his complete and total endorsement of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Monday, days before a House vote on Friday to elect a new Speaker.
“Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, hard working, religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to WIN. Mike has my Complete & Total Endorsement. MAGA!” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Trump’s public endorsement could be a key to a win by Johnson, who can only afford a handful of GOP defections and be elected Speaker.
Anger from GOP members about how Johnson has handled various issues, including the end-of-year funding package to keep the government open, has thrown Johnson’s Speakership into question.
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(ducks)
Gawd...
:facepalm:
I can’t say I blame Trump as a speaker fight at this point only serves to delay his agenda, if not his inaugaration.
Sometimes pragmatism is the only way.
We can do MUCH better, but politics is the art of compromise. I think Trump has enough of a popular mandate to keep Johnson under control.
I hope he got something big in return for promoting this backstabber
Just toe the line, Bub and don’t slip up, again.
I can see a spot on Fox News board of directors in 2 years for Johnson after he wrecks President Trumps agenda and loses the house.
He didnt keep him under control when it came to the shutdown. He was promising to vote for each spending issue and then reversed course and sided with Schumer
Johnson, who owes Trump a great deal, is about ten thousand times better than former speaker Paul Ryan, who hampered President Trump’s agenda at every turn from 2016 to 2018.
We can do MUCH better, but politics is the art of compromise. I think Trump has enough of a popular mandate to keep Johnson under control.
Trump has not been President with Johnson as Speaker.
“We can do MUCH better”
Really? How?
It’s congress. They have a 17% approval rating. Not Johnson. Congress. They’re horrible. One is worse than the other
Gallup:
Disapprove No opinion
% % %
2024 Dec 2-18 approve 17% disapprove 77%
Why not just hire an H1B replace him?
Let’s not blow these next two years like we did with McConnell and Ryan.
Trump had no other way-——a speaker fight at this point
would only serve to delay his agenda, if not his inaguration.
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