Mike Johnson’s religion-heavy speech falls flat: ‘I’m not at church’
by Joe Sommerlad
Feb 22, 2024
2 minutes
House speaker Mike Johnson reportedly raised eyebrows at a weekend retreat for Republican lawmakers when a presentation he was delivering on maintaining the party’s slim majority in the lower chamber of Congress mutated into an unwelcome religious “sermon”.
The Louisiana representative, known to be a devout Southern Baptist, was addressing his party’s Elected Leadership Committee at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Miami, Florida, when on the condition of anonymity.
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