Democrats May Help Mike Johnson Remain Speaker

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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s best chance to keep the gavel is to allow House Democrats to vote for him, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) told reporters Friday.

If Democrats, along with some establishment Republicans, enable Johnson to retain the Speakership, he would be in a power sharing agreement with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who would demand something of Johnson in return for Democrat votes.

A power sharing agreement in the House would seem unpalatable for President-elect Donald Trump, who won a landslide election to implement his agenda, not the agenda of Jeffries or the establishment.

“There may be an effort to blow everything up but I don’t think — I think the Democrats are smarter than that,” Romney told reporters of Johnson’s ability to survive with Democrat support. “They’d give him support.”
Johnson’s Speakership, according to Romney’s forecast, appears to be in an untenable position: Johnson either accepts Democrat votes to remain Speaker, dismissing Trump’s mandate and infuriating the Republican base, or forgoes standing for re-election.

Johnson can only lose one House Republican without a single Democrat vote. Up to 25 House Republicans are possibly voting against Johnson for Speaker, a senior House GOP staffer told Breitbart News’s Matt Boyle.

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