Mike Johnson seeks to win over Republican skeptics in his bid for re-election: House speaker vote dwell updates | EUROtoday

One congressman, Thomas Massie, has already burdened his objections to Johnson, telling One America News’s model new Matt Gaetz Show on Monday night that he wouldn’t again the incumbent.

“You can pull all my fingernails out, you can shove bamboo up in them, you can start cutting off my fingers,” the Kentuckian stated.

“I am not voting for Mike Johnson tomorrow, and you can take that to the bank.”

Massie additionally instructed The Wall Street Journal yesterday: “Even if he thinks he’s going to be the guy who does what Trump wants him to do – he’s not that good at it.”

Several of his colleagues have likewise stated they’re unconvinced by Johnson (14 by CNN’s depend).

Of these, Andy Biggs, Tim Burchett and Chip Roy say they’re unmoved by Trump’s endorsement of Johnson and Victoria Spartz and Andy Harris have indicated they are going to require main concessions in change for supporting him.

Johnson is known to have met with Biggs, Roy and one other holdout, Eli Crane, on Thursday within the hope of adjusting their minds.

Republican House speaker Mike Johnson is bracing for what could possibly be a fraught battle on Friday as he seeks to hold on to the gavel when Congress returns from its vacation recess.

Despite having the full-throated endorsement of President-elect Donald Trump, the Louisiana Representative can solely afford one Republican rise up towards his re-election bid when the decrease chamber’s members forged their votes, so tight is the GOP’s 219 to 211 majority over the Democrats.

Here’s Eric Garcia on the way it may all play out.

Good morning and welcome to The Independent’s dwell protection because the 119th Congress convenes in Washington DC and the House of Representatives elects its speaker, with Donald Trump’s Republican ally Mike Johnson searching for a brand new time period however going through opposition from skeptical members of his personal convention, a scenario that has the potential, not less than in precept, to delay the formal certification of Trump’s November election win on Monday.