{"id":17108,"date":"2024-03-18T12:48:02","date_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/speaker-johnson-tells-republicans-campaigning-against-each-other-in-primaries-to-cool-it-report\/"},"modified":"2024-03-18T12:48:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T12:48:02","slug":"speaker-johnson-tells-republicans-campaigning-against-each-other-in-primaries-to-cool-it-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/18\/speaker-johnson-tells-republicans-campaigning-against-each-other-in-primaries-to-cool-it-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Johnson tells Republicans campaigning against each other in primaries to \u2018cool it\u2019: report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is telling Republicans who are going after sitting GOP lawmakers in contentious primaries to \u2018knock it off,\u2019 in order to tamp down on divisions within the party, according to a report.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johnson, R-La., attended the House Republicans\u2019 annual member retreat at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia, last week to unify the often-fractious conference as at least four sitting Republicans in South Carolina, Illinois, Texas and Virginia are going to battle against Republican challengers.<\/p>\n

\u2018I\u2019ve asked them all to cool it,\u2019 Johnson told CNN during the retreat. \u2018I am vehemently opposed to member-on-member action in primaries because it\u2019s not productive. And it causes division for obvious reasons, and we should not be engaging in that.\u2019<\/p>\n

Johnson is trying to figure out how to guide his razor-thin majority through a series of legislative hurdles that divide Republicans, including how to provide military aid for Ukraine, finish government funding and reauthorize a federal surveillance program \u2013 all while trying to make a case that voters should re-elect a GOP House majority.<\/p>\n

\u2018So I\u2019m telling everyone who\u2019s doing that to knock it off,\u2019 Johnson told the outlet, referring to challenging incumbents within the GOP. \u2018And both sides, they\u2019ll say, \u2018Well, we didn\u2019t start it, they started it.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n

Johnson took the speaker\u2019s gavel late last year after\u00a0former Speaker Kevin McCarthy was ousted\u00a0from office in a historic move that left Republicans deeply divided and mired in dysfunction.<\/p>\n

Johnson told Fox News Digital last week that he is aiming to stay at the helm of the House GOP next year regardless of whether they keep the House majority.<\/p>\n

\u2018I have not given a lot of thought about the next Congress, because I\u2019m so busy with my responsibility right now,\u2019 Johnson said. \u2018My intention is to stay as speaker, stay in leadership, because we\u2019re laying a lot of important groundwork right now for the big work that we\u2019ll be doing.\u2019<\/p>\n

Fox News\u2019 Elizabeth Elkind and The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Speaker of the House Mike Johnson is telling Republicans who are going after sitting GOP lawmakers in contentious primaries to \u2018knock it off,\u2019 in order to tamp down on divisions within the party, according to a report.\u00a0 Johnson, R-La., attended the House Republicans\u2019 annual member retreat at the Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17109,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17108","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shareperformanceinsight.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}