Speaker Mike Johnson to meet with Donald Trump amid threats to his job

WASHINGTON — With his job in jeopardy, House Speaker Mike Johnson plans to head to Florida on Friday to meet with the one man who could save his precarious speakership: the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump.

Trump and Johnson, R-La., plan to deliver remarks about “election integrity,” said several sources, one of whom said the two Republicans will talk about legislation focused on preventing noncitizens from voting. That’s already illegal — and very rare — but Trump and many of his allies have falsely claimed that undocumented immigrants affected the 2020 election and warned they could do so this year.

Johnson is making a pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago, Trump’s golf resort in Palm Beach, as he faces an ongoing threat to his job from Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the far-right Georgia firebrand and Trump loyalist who has ratcheted up attacks on him less than six months into the job.

If Trump stays silent, Greene may see it as a sufficient opening. But she is unlikely to defy Trump if he pushes for Johnson to keep his job and pressures her not to force a vote to oust him, known as a motion to vacate.

"Obviously, it would help" Johnson if Trump reiterated his support for him, conservative Rep. Ralph Norman, R-S.C., who has criticized Johnson at times but doesn't support the push to remove him, said in an interview.

"Trump has got a following; he’s our nominee. ... It's now Trump and Biden — there is no other choice. So it’s good that they’re getting together," Norman continued, saying he expects Trump to impress upon Johnson that his No. 1 focus should be passing new restrictions on immigration.

Asked what Johnson has to gain by visiting Trump, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., a Johnson