Mike Johnson needs to do his 'constitutional duty | Rep. Victoria Spartz

Mike Johnson needs to do his 'constitutional duty' if he wants to be speaker, Rep. Spartz warns
GOP Rep. Victoria Spartz of Indiana announced Monday that she is not ready to commit to voting for House Speaker Mike Johnson to retain his post in the next Congress.

Spartz posted on X, “I understand why President Trump is endorsing Speaker Johnson as he did Speaker Ryan, which is definitely important. However, we still need to get assurances that [Speaker Johnson] won’t sell us out to the swamp.”

The lawmaker linked to a Politico article from 2016 reporting that Trump had decided to endorse then-House Speaker Paul Ryan and then-Sen. John McCain in their primary contests.

Politico noted that Trump had emphasized how important it would be to have a unified party, hence his decision to back Ryan and McCain. Ryan had endorsed the Republican presidential nominee but noted he could rescind it if he deemed it necessary. McCain ultimately did unendorse Trump.

So Spartz appeared to be arguing that Trump is endorsing Johnson out of political expediency, but it could end up as badly with the current speaker as it did with Ryan and McCain for the president-elect during his first term.

“President Trump will be able to save America only if we have a speaker with courage, vision and a plan — also public commitment to the American people how he will help deliver President Trump’s agenda to drain the swamp,” Spartz added in another post on X.