Will the lawmaker from Louisiana’s gambit pay off?
Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) has spent the year traveling and campaigning, doing his best to keep and even grow the GOP majority in the House. With national polling showing former President Donald Trump leading Vice President Kamala Harris ever so slightly and Republicans poised to pick up the majority in the Senate, the pressure is on. Will all his hard work pay off?
Mike Johnson, Nationwide
There are currently 220 Republicans and 212 Democrats in the US House, leaving three vacancies. Speaker Johnson has crisscrossed the country spending time with and stumping for Republican candidates in the hopes of growing the GOP majority – and he has his work cut out for him. By the time the election was just a week away, Johnson had been to 243 cities across 40 states….
