Speaker Mike Johnson firmly backed away from the idea that Donald Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election in a new interview that aired on Sunday, a move that is almost certain to draw the former president’s ire.
The House GOP leader, who was elected to his position last year after the downfall of Kevin McCarthy and the failure of any members of GOP leadership to secure enough votes to become speaker, appeared for an interview with CBS’s Margaret Brennan, recorded last week during his trip to the US-Mexico border. In the interview, he rejected the label of “election denier” and argued that not all of the Republicans who signed on to an effort to invalidate the election results in several states fit that bill.
