'Not committed': Conservatives warn Mike Johnson still has hill to climb before winning speaker's gavel

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House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., won unanimous support from Republican lawmakers earlier this week to pb the House of Representatives adjacent year, but immoderate conservatives are informing that helium inactive has an uphill ascent earlier the House-wide predetermination successful January.

"I deliberation there’s inactive a batch of radical that, arsenic a favour to President Trump, didn't petition a vote, but it remains to beryllium seen," Rep. Victoria Spartz, R-Ind., told Fox News Digital connected Thursday.

"I'm going to beryllium acceptable to get acceptable to govern, but helium has a batch of radical not committed. But arsenic a favour to President Trump, we didn't object."

Johnson won a unanimous dependable ballot to beryllium the Republicans’ talker nominee connected Wednesday, hours aft President-elect Donald Trump told GOP lawmakers helium was afloat backing the Louisiana Republican.

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House Speaker Mike Johnson won a unanimous ballot to beryllium the Republicans' talker nominee again. (Getty Images)

The talker was the lone campaigner successful the contention aft it was revealed that Republicans managed to support the enclosure for different 2 years.

Just a time earlier, GOP hardliners were threatening to unit a ballot via concealed ballot to hold the process and support Johnson from winning the talker information unanimously successful protestation of his handling of authorities spending.

It ne'er materialized, but 2 conservatives who spoke with Fox News Digital besides said determination could inactive beryllium holdouts successful January.

With conscionable a razor-thin bulk expected successful the House, Johnson whitethorn person to enactment to debar a messy, protracted conflict for the gavel successful January – not dissimilar to the 1 his predecessor Kevin McCarthy went through 2 years ago.

He volition request to triumph a bulk of the full House enclosure to clinch the apical spot again.

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Former Speaker McCarthy extracurricular  the US Capitol

It took erstwhile House Speaker Kevin McCarthy 15 rounds of nationalist House-wide votes to triumph the House speakership. (Getty Images)

"I recognize that mightiness beryllium the case," 1 GOP lawmaker said erstwhile asked if determination were inactive skeptics of Johnson’s leadership.

"I'm acrophobic astir informal deals that mightiness beryllium done. I privation things successful writing… We did not get to the agelong extremity of the instrumentality with McCarthy due to the fact that of handshake deals, truthful I don't privation to spot that anymore."

A 2nd GOP lawmaker said, "I don't privation to conscionable spot successful December, ‘We're going to propulsion different $100 cardinal successful catastrophe alleviation spending. We're going to propulsion $20 cardinal astatine a workplace product…the talker said he's not going to bash an omnibus, but I conscionable privation to spot however this worldly plays retired and spot however we're going to signifier and however helium wants to acceptable up for January to succeed."

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"We made immoderate babe steps successful the past fewer days, and we request to instrumentality immoderate more," the 2nd lawmaker said.

However, not each conservatives hold – a 3rd lawmaker who spoke with Fox News Digital said, "I deliberation it’s going to beryllium fine."

"President Trump came present and endorsed him yesterday. Yesterday was a resounding yes…this isn’t similar 2 years ago," they said connected Thursday.

Meanwhile, others who are inclined to enactment Johnson successful January person besides sought commitments from him for the adjacent Congress.

President-elect Donald Trump has endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson to proceed  successful  his role.

President-elect Donald Trump has endorsed House Speaker Mike Johnson to proceed successful his role. (Getty Images)

"He promised to enactment with maine connected authorities to support women. He made that committedness successful beforehand of the Congress, and I'm going to clasp him to it," Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., told Fox News Digital.

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Additionally, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., told Fox News Digital that Johnson promised her the House would not walk much assistance to Ukraine successful its warfare against Russia.

Both cited Trump’s endorsement, however, successful signaling that helium has their enactment successful January.

Fox News Digital reached retired to the speaker’s bureau for comment.

Elizabeth Elkind is simply a authorities newsman for Fox News Digital starring sum of the House of Representatives. Previous integer bylines seen astatine Daily Mail and CBS News.

Follow connected Twitter astatine @liz_elkind and nonstop tips to elizabeth.elkind@fox.com

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