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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.
The event on Friday comes as discussions are under way about holding regular meetings between the Trump campaign and Johnson’s team, it writes.
Those around Donald Trump are growing weary of the constant motion-to-vacate threats and fearful that an election-year speakership battle could risk Republicans losing the House, Politico’s Playbook writes.
“The internal fighting is not appreciated by [Trump],” one person close to the former president said, adding:
It’s no way to run a party; it’s no way to run a House. You can’t work in that environment.
Trump and Johnson grow closer amid frustration over 'stupid' threat to speakership
Good morning US politics readers. The embattled House speaker, Mike Johnson, is dashing to Florida to meet with Donald Trump this week where the pair are expected to appear tomorrow at an event at the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate for a “major announcement on election integrity”.
Friday’s appearance will mark their first public event together since Johnson was elected to the speakership last fall, and comes as he and Trump have begun to develop a rapport and engaging in more frequent phone calls, Politico’s Playbook reports. It also comes at a precarious time for Johnson, who faces a threat for his ouster from one of Trump’s most loyal allies in Congress, the far-right Georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Just before the spring recess last month, Greene filed a motion to vacate, and has since warned Johnson that passing Ukraine aid would put his position in peril. Johnson warned on Wednesday that an effort to oust him would not be helpful for the Republican majority and “would be chaos in the House”, and Trump insiders reportedly agree. “100 percent distraction. Unwanted. And just stupid,” one Trump insider told Playbook.
We’re not going to get trapped into this cycle of bullshit that comes out of members of the House.
Here’s what else we’re watching:
10am ET: Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida will meet with Speaker Mike Johnson, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer, Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries
10.35am: Kishida will address a joint meeting of Congress.
1.30pm: Jeffries will hold his weekly news conference
1.30pm: White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief.
3.15pm: Joe Biden will meet with Philippine president Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr
4.15pm: Biden will hold a trilateral meeting with Marcos and Kishida. Kamala Harris will attend.
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