Video House GOP campaign chair says President Trump on midterms campaign trail will be ‘big benefit’ to Republicans National Republican Congressional Committee Chair Rep. Richard Hudson says 2025 elections “wake up call” to conservatives to “show up and vote” in midterms. Republicans are clinging to a razor-thin 218-213 House majority. But House Speaker Mike Johnson shouldn’t expect many reinforcements anytime soon. This month’s shocking early House retirement of MAGA firebrand Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia and the unexpected death of Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa of California further shrunk the GOP’s margins in the chamber. And that has House GOP leaders keeping a tight leash on the party’s rank and file members. DEMOCRATIC TAKEOVER FEARS SOAR AS HOUSE REPUBLICANS CLING TO FRAGILE MAJORITY Rep. Mike Johnson, a Republican from Louisiana, holds the gavel after being re-elected House Speaker, on Friday, Jan. 3, 2025 at the U.S. Capitol. (Kent Nishimura/Bloomberg via Getty Images) “They’d better be here,” Johnson recently said of his members. “I told everybody, and not in jest, I said, no adventure sports, no risk-taking, take your vitamins. Stay healthy and be here.” And Hou
