Speaker of the US House of Representatives: I strongly support Trump

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Mike Johnson endorsed Donald Trump’s candidacy for president of the Republican Party. Johnson’s words demonstrate the former president’s continued strong support among most party members.

“I wholeheartedly support President Trump,” Johnson said on CNBC.

After Trump’s defeat in the 2020 election, Rou Johnson drafted a legal document, signed by 125 other Republicans in the House of Representatives, that sought to convince the Supreme Court to overturn the results of several disputed states in which Trump lost to Joe Biden to be taken into consideration.

In an interview with CNBC at the time, Johnson defended Trump’s actions, saying the former president believes “deep down” that the election was stolen.

Mike Johnson is still relatively unpopular, so it’s unclear how much his support for Trump will mean to voters. Still, his gesture shows that Republicans have accepted Trump as the favorite among the party’s presidential candidates, even as many people indicated that Trump would disappear from politics forever after his defeat in the 2020 election.

American elections

The next US presidential election will take place in November 2024. The Republican Party, which Trump was part of in 2016 and 2020, has not yet selected its official candidate; an internal election procedure is currently underway. But the former president enjoys the strongest support among Republicans.

According to most polls, incumbent US President Joe Biden is currently ahead of Trump in five of the six key states.

As Democratic Congressman Jamie Raskin recently said, if Donald Trump returns to the White House, his second term as US president will resemble the reign of Vladimir Putin and other authoritarian leaders.