{"id":39769,"date":"2024-12-31T01:55:19","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/?p=39769"},"modified":"2024-12-31T01:55:19","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T22:55:19","slug":"trump-affirms-complete-and-unwavering-support-for-house-speaker-mike-johnson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/2024\/12\/31\/trump-affirms-complete-and-unwavering-support-for-house-speaker-mike-johnson\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Affirms &#8220;Complete and Unwavering&#8221; Support for House Speaker Mike Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-a:r-5502888670524603639\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\">U.S. President-elect Donald Trump reaffirmed his &#8220;complete and unwavering&#8221; support for House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday, as Johnson is set to run for re-election this week amid a slim Republican majority in the House.<\/div>\n<div id=\"m#msg-a:r-5502888670524603639-content\" class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social: &#8220;Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, diligent, and religious man. He will do the right thing, and we will continue to win. My full and complete endorsement of Mike.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The House of Representatives is set to elect a new speaker on Friday after the new Congress takes the oath of office. Trump&#8217;s support is crucial to Johnson\u2019s hopes of retaining the position, which he assumed in October 2023, according to Reuters.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Republicans hold a 219-215 majority in the House, meaning the vote depends on the GOP maintaining its unity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Due to the slim Republican majority, if just two members vote for another candidate other than Johnson, it could derail his attempt to stay in the speaker&#8217;s position.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. President-elect Donald Trump reaffirmed his &#8220;complete and unwavering&#8221; support for House Speaker Mike Johnson on Monday, as Johnson is set to run for re-election this week amid a slim Republican majority in the House. Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social: &#8220;Speaker Mike Johnson is a good, diligent, and religious man. He will &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39769"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39780,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39769\/revisions\/39780"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}