Speaker Mike Johnson is pulling closer to Trump to save the GOP's House majority - The Boston Globe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : "It's a remarkable journey for Johnson, 52, a religious-rights lawyer from Louisiana, first elected alongside Trump in 2016 and now second in the line of succession to the presidency.
58% : If Trump wins, as Johnson expects he will, "this will all be an afterthought.
56% : Johnson said he and Trump talk all the time about the plans.
55% : He celebrated his first year on the job last week, before arriving in the Buckeye State, among 230 cities in 40 states he has visited since seizing the gavel.To hear Johnson tell it, Trump "is the head coach" and "I'll be the quarterback," and together they are preparing to run the play on an "ambitious" 100-day agenda with Republican senators -- cutting taxes, securing the U.S. border and taking a "blow torch" to federal regulations -- if they sweep the White House and Congress.
51% : As Johnson travels the country trying to save his House Republican majority, and his own job as speaker, he has linked ever more tightly to Trump, a once uncertain relationship that has become increasingly beneficial to both.
48% : At the Saturday evening event for Republican Derek Merrin who is challenging long-serving Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Johnson said the district that Trump carried in the last election provides an opportunity as they work to preserve -- or grow -- the GOP's slim majority hold on the House.
48% : Standing under the fluorescent lights inside the Lucas County Republican Party office, Johnson shared a story about how he was telling Trump what a great candidate Merrin would be -- "straight out of central casting," he quipped, breaking into an impersonation of the former president -- to the delight of the crowd.
34% : The speaker is relying on the former president for his own political survival in the chaotic House, but also presenting himself as a partner to Trump, prepared to potentially challenge the election results, and, if Trump retakes the White House, deliver a MAGA agenda in Congress.
27% : Trump loomed large in Johnson's campaign stops, even in his absence.
15% : Trump said over the weekend they have a "little secret" for winning, and Johnson, who backed a legal challenge to the 2020 election Trump lost, did not contradict him.

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