House Speaker Mike Johnson on Tuesday backed Donald Trump for the 2024 Republican governmental election, while protecting the previous president’s efforts to reverse his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.
“I’m all in for President Trump,” Johnson stated on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I expect he’ll be our nominee, and we have to make Biden a one-term president.”
Johnson recommended he had actually currently tossed his weight behind Trump, stating, “I have endorsed him wholeheartedly.” But it was uncertain when the Louisiana Republican had actually formerly provided Trump his main support.
Trump had actually not formally backed Johnson when he ended up being the Republican Party’s 4th candidate for speaker last month, amidst a dragged out scramble to change ousted Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif
But Trump provided what he called a “strong suggestion” to “go with the leading candidate, Mike Johnson, & get it done, fast!”
Trump has actually controlled the 2024 Republican governmental field, however it is uncommon for a celebration’s leader in Congress to openly back a prospect this early in the race, before the very first main vote has actually been cast.
Johnson backed Trump in 2020, and he backed Trump’s efforts to reverse his Electoral College loss toBiden Johnson led a Supreme Court short signed by more than 100 other House Republicans in assistance of a Texas claim that intended to mark down the election leads to essential states that Trump lost.
Johnson on Tuesday called himself among the “closest allies President Trump has in Congress.”
Asked about Trump’s efforts to challenge his loss in 2020– consisting of current reporting in which his previous allies stated Trump prepared to decline to leave his workplace– Johnson was steadfast.
“It can’t be about personalities, it’s got to be about policies and principles,” Johnson stated, arguing that Trump’s transcended to Biden’s.
Asked once again about Trump’s regular, incorrect claims that the election was taken through prevalent scams, Johnson stated, “I take him at his word, I do believe that he believes that.”
Pressed on Trump’s well-documented airing of lies and deceptive declarations, Johnson stated, “There are a lot of people in Washington who say things that are not accurate all the time.”
But he preserved that Trump’s sees about the 2020 election outcomes are “deep in his heart.”
“He just felt like he was cheated in that election,” Johnson stated, “and I think that’s a core conviction of his.”
Johnson included that Trump “does believe in the rule of law. I mean, look at what he did on the Supreme Court, for example.”
The speaker likewise rejected concerns about Trump’s 4 pending criminal cases, dismissing them all as politically inspired “lawfare.”
