House speaker to make public appearance with ex-president as Trump insiders reportedly irked by ‘unwanted’ ouster effort from Marjorie Taylor Greene
The joint appearance at Mar-a-Lago tomorrow was pitched by Mike Johnson’s office to Donald Trump’s team, but the event is being viewed as a win by both camps, according to Politico’s Playbook.
Johnson gets to stand onstage with the King of MAGA himself right as he faces a hard-right revolt, while Trump gets the country’s highest-ranking Republican to lend credence to his voting concerns as many in the GOP beg him to move past the 2020 election.
It’s no way to run a party; it’s no way to run a House. You can’t work in that environment.
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