Johnson’s Election Postmortem: 2026 – Not 2025 – Will Buoy GOP Hopes

Speaker Mike Johnson shrugged.
With a brave face, the House Republican leader downplayed the results of the first major election since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. He called Tuesday’s outcomes the kind of off-year “anomalies” that excite politicos but “do not portend what happens in the future.” Johnson insisted there were “no big surprises last night,” just predictable results. “In the end,” he told RealClearPolitics, “blue states voted blue.”
The bright spot for Republicans: A rising star – and prime 2026 target – on the left.
Johnson pointed to Zohran Mamdani, the…
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