Johnson leans on Trump in frantic push to save House majority

Source: CNN Politics

Updated 4:48 PM EDT, Fri November 1, 2024


FRANKLIN SQUARE, New York CNN — It’s been two years of a chaotic GOP-led House. But this time, Speaker Mike Johnson insists, things will be different.

As he barnstorms through blue districts central to the fight for the House, Johnson is seeking to nationalize the battle for the majority, promising an “aggressive” 100-day agenda and aligning himself closely with Donald Trump, even taking selfie videos with supporters and texting them to the former president, like he did in this battleground Long Island district that tilts Democratic.

In an interview with CNN, Johnson predicted that a unified GOP Washington would mean less of the infighting that derailed the Republican agenda over the past two years.

He also walked back his suggestion from earlier this week that they do away with the Affordable Care Act, a sharp departure from the yearslong GOP effort to kill the Democratic health law.

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