Speaker Mike Johnson: Republicans ‘faced some real odds’
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- The Hill reports: “Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told supporters in Louisiana on Tuesday that the GOP “faced some real odds” in the midterm elections but that the fight was far from over. “We knew that to keep the Hou…”
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