Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) on Tuesday practically guaranteed the Republicans would win the midterms to keep the House but predicted a GOP nightmare if they don’t: Democrats would impeach President Donald Trump again, he said. (Watch the video below.)
“Speaker Johnson, you have a very, very, very narrow majority. On a scale of one to 10, how likely is it that the Republicans build on this very slim majority next year?” Fox News host Laura Ingraham asked.
“We’re gonna win the midterms, absolutely,” Johnson said. “We’re gonna have a big victory. And I think we can expand that majority so we can keep going. We have to give President Trump four years and not two. Imagine if the Democrats took over the House; they’d impeach him.”
Trump became the first president to be impeached twice in his first term. The first time was when he strongly suggested that he would withhold military aid from Ukraine unless it investigated Joe Biden. The second was for attempting to reverse the results of the 2020 election and fomenting an insurrection at the Capitol by a pro-Trump mob.
While Johnson and other Republicans have repeatedly used the possibility of impeachment to scare up the GOP votes for 2026, Politico reported in August that Democratic lawmakers were “wary” of such action after two unsuccessful tries the first time around.
