Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is working to stay in the good graces of former President Donald Trump as he attempts to defuse a possible rebellion by his right flank in the House.
Trump has repeatedly voiced support for Johnson as hard-liners, upset by a series of deals Johnson cut in the last month, weigh whether to attempt his ouster as speaker.
Democrats have offered to save Johnson should House rebels pull the trigger on a no-confidence vote, largely out of gratitude that he ushered Ukraine aid, critical to President Joe Biden’s foreign policy agenda, through the House. But Johnson wants to avoid the messy spectacle altogether and has turned to his party’s standard-bearer to keep Republicans in line.
The starkest example of that outreach was his trip to Mar-a-Lago earlier this month, a visit ostensibly about election integrity but
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