Mike Johnson asks House colleagues to re-elect him to speakership post 

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) intends to stay astatine nan helm of the little chamber and asked his colleagues Wednesday to thief him support his gavel. 

​​”The American group person shown by their votes that they are fresh to move from nan misery of nan past 4 years and embark connected a brighter, bolder way that is marked not by large government, bureaucratic control, poverty, ostentation and wokeness—but by liberty, security, strength, prosperity and opportunity,” nan Louisiana Republican wrote successful a letter to lawmakers. 

“I’m fresh to return nan section pinch each of you, and I americium humbly asking for your support to proceed starring this Conference arsenic your Speaker,” Johnson continued. “It has been nan grant of my life to service pinch you frankincense far, and I look guardant to playing nan biggest discourtesy of our lives.”

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) asked his colleagues Wednesday to thief him support his gavel and re-elect him to speakership post. Jack Gruber / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

“We person a state to prevention — and we will.” 

House activity elections are scheduled to return spot on Nov. 13. 

Republicans look poised to support their House mostly successful nan aftermath of Tuesday’s election. 

As of 11 p.m. Wednesday, nan GOP was projected to triumph astatine slightest 206 House seats, according to nan Associated Press, pinch Democrats expected to triumph astatine slightest 190.

The forecasting website Decision Desk HQ gave Republicans a 89.8% chance of winning nan mostly and projected that nan GOP would triumph 222 seats, which would springiness nan statement a slim, 4-seat mostly adjacent year. 

If nan projected title wins cookware out, it would springiness Republicans power of nan House, Senate and nan White House adjacent year.

House Speaker Mike Johnson of La., speaks astatine a run rally, Oct. 27, 2024, successful New York. The GOP was projected to triumph astatine slightest 206 House seats arsenic of 11 p.m. connected Wednesday, according to nan AP. AP

“The American group person spoken and voted overwhelmingly to nonstop President Donald J. Trump and Senator JD Vance to nan White House, and return power of nan Senate to nan GOP,” Johnson wrote.  “As we person planned and expected, nan latest information indicates that we will besides clasp — and apt turn — our Republican mostly successful nan House, moreover though we faced a representation pinch 18 Biden-won seats.”

“The instruction that has been delivered shows that a mostly of Americans are eager for unafraid borders, little costs, bid done strength, and a return to communal sense,” he added. 

“With unified Republican government, if we meet this historical infinitesimal together, nan adjacent 2 years tin consequence successful nan astir consequential Congress of nan modern era.”