Scoop: Johnson seeks votes for bill to support Trump after guilty verdict

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Scoop: Johnson seeks votes for bill to support Trump after guilty verdict
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GOP hardliners want a full-court press to defend Trump, but some centrists are uneasy.

House Speaker Mike Johnson , Rep. Michael Guest , Majority Leader Steve Scalise , and Majority Whip Tom Emmer d leave their weekly news conference on Capitol Hill on June 4.

Johnson's leadership team is making calls to whip support for the measure, the No More Political Prosecutions Act, according to two lawmakers and two other House GOP sources familiar with the conversations.

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