Republican presumptive nominee struggles to articulate position on divisive issue after meeting with House speaker
Donald Trump attends a joint press conference with the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday.Donald Trump attends a joint press conference with the speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, on Friday.
“And you’re gonna, you’re having some very, very beautiful harmony, to be honest with you. You have, well, you have some cases like Arizona that went back to like 1864 or something like that. And a judge made a ruling, but that’s going to be changed by government. They’re going to be changing that. I disagree with that.”’,” Harris said. “And as much harm as he has already caused, a second Trump term would be even worse.
In Washington, Johnson must manage Congress with a tiny majority under pressure from an unruly Republican House caucus dominated by the pro-Trump right. The Georgia extremist Marjorie Taylor Greene has filed a motion to remove him.would seek to introduce legislation to “require proof of citizenship to vote”, claiming that if “hundreds of thousands” of migrants cast votes, it could affect the result of the elections.Some cities allow non-citizens to vote in municipal and non-federal polls.
On Friday, a statement released by the Trump campaign said Johnson had “agreed to hold a series of public committee hearings over the next two months … in advance of potential legislation to further safeguard our elections from interference”. Asked about the House bill, Trump said he still didn’t like Fisa and repeated his complaints about 2016. Johnson nodded behind him.
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