President-elect Donald Trump wished House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) “good luck” in Friday’s vote for him to retain his leadership of the chamber. “Good luck today for Speaker Mike Johnson, a fine man of great ability, who is very close to having 100% support,” Trump wrote on social media.

WASHINGTON—House Republicans braced for the possibility that Friday’s speaker election could go multiple rounds—and possibly drag on for days—as the incumbent Mike Johnson (R., La.) privately worked to win over conservative holdouts and publicly warned fellow Republicans against theatrics.

President-elect Donald Trump has wished U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson "good luck" ahead of a vote crucial to the Republican from Louisiana keeping his roleIn a post on Truth social on Friday, Trump called Johnson "a fine man of great ability,

Congress has been here before, when it took Republicans nearly a week and 15 rounds of voting to elect Kevin McCarthy as speaker in 2023, a spectacle unseen in modern times. McCarthy was then dumped by his party, a historic first, but he was also part of a long list of GOP speakers chased to early exits.