OAN Staff Blake Wolf
5:18 PM – Friday, January 3, 2025
President-elect Donald Trump spoke with two of the GOP holdouts preventing Speaker Mike Johnson from retaining his role as House speaker, flipping the votes and resulting in Johnson retaining his position.
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Reps. Ralph Norman (R-S.C.) and Keith Self (R-Texas) were the two House members who initially voted against Johnson (R-La.), in favor of other House Republicans, in a move which would have left Johnson without enough votes to secure the speaker’s gavel.
Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) another Republican who denounced Johnson’s leadership,…
