{"id":29651,"date":"2025-01-03T21:51:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T21:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/gop-rebels-switch-vote-to-johnson-after-trumps-11th-hour-calls-pushing-him-over-the-finish-line\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T21:51:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T21:51:09","slug":"gop-rebels-switch-vote-to-johnson-after-trumps-11th-hour-calls-pushing-him-over-the-finish-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/03\/gop-rebels-switch-vote-to-johnson-after-trumps-11th-hour-calls-pushing-him-over-the-finish-line\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP rebels switch vote to Johnson after Trump\u2019s 11th hour calls, pushing him over the finish line"},"content":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump<\/a> appears to have helped Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., avoid a messy, drawn-out fight to lead the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

Trump spoke by phone with both Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Keith Self, R-Texas, after they had initially voted for people other than Johnson for speaker, two knowledgeable sources told Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n

Self and Norman were seen disappearing into a side room with Johnson and others after the roll call vote was complete, but before the vote was formally closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

They emerged minutes later and announced they would both vote for Johnson<\/a> \u2013 cementing the Louisiana Republican’s victory.<\/p>\n

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Self then confirmed to reporters that he had spoken with Trump by phone multiple times on Friday.<\/p>\n

“I talked to him a couple of times today,” Self said. “We had a lively discussion.”<\/p>\n

Self did not elaborate much further on the contents of the discussion.<\/p>\n

But the two people who spoke with Fox News Digital said Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., connected Trump with Self and Norman by phone after they voted against Johnson.<\/p>\n

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Mace would not comment, but Fox News Digital saw her and Johnson share a hug on the House floor after they and others were in the side room with the holdouts.<\/p>\n

She was also seen in intense talks with Norman off the House floor earlier.<\/p>\n

Norman also later confirmed to reporters that he spoke with Trump on Friday.<\/p>\n

“He just made his point about how Mike is the only one who could get elected,” Norman said, adding that Trump did not change his vote but rather a “commitment that things are gonna change” from Johnson.<\/p>\n

Johnson won the House speakership in the first round of voting, after it initially appeared he was poised to lose.<\/p>\n

Self, Norman and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., each voted for people other than Johnson, appearing to put the speaker’s gavel out of reach.<\/p>\n

But House leaders did not formally close the vote while figuring out a path forward. Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers were told to be on the House floor immediately in preparation for a second vote.<\/p>\n

That second vote did not occur, however, and Johnson was sworn in as speaker on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President-elect Trump appears to have helped Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., avoid a messy, drawn-out fight to lead the House of Representatives. Trump spoke by phone with both Reps. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., and Keith Self, R-Texas, after they had initially voted for people other than Johnson for speaker, two knowledgeable sources told Fox News Digital. Self … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}