Speaker Mike Johnson Meets With Donald Trump To Plot Election Strategy At Mar-A-Lago After He Calls For Nikki Haley To Drop Out

House Speaker Mike Johnson met with Donald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago residence on President’s Day to discuss the 2024 election cycle.

“Speaker Johnson met with President Trump in Florida on Monday to discuss growing the majority and securing Republican victories up and down the ballot in November,” Johnson’s campaign spokesman Greg Steele told Fox News.

Chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee Rep. Richard Hudson (R-North Carolina) was also present. Both Johnson and Hudson were in Florida for the House GOP leadership’s annual retreat.

Earlier this month, Johnson released a video calling on Republicans to support Trump.

“Following victories in Iowa, New Hampshire, the U.S. Virgin Islands and Nevada, it is time for Republicans to unite behind President Trump, so we can focus on ending the disastrous Biden presidency and growing our majority in Congress,” he said.

“I am convinced he’s going to be the next president of the United States, and I am very much looking forward to that happening,” Johnson concluded.

The meeting in Mar-a-Lago occurred as Trump’s last major primary opponent, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, announced that she was staying in the race despite falling behind Trump in the polls.

“Some of you, perhaps a few of you here in the media, came here today to see if I’m dropping out of the race,” Haley said during a speech in South Carolina on Tuesday. “Well, I’m not – far from it. I’m running for president because we have a country to save.”

Haley has raised concerns about Trump’s “cognitive decline” and that he would use the Republican Party as a “piggy bank” to pay his spiraling legal bills.