Speaker Johnson prevails in a nail-biter: Five takeaways

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : Trump congratulated Johnson after his victory, calling the outcome "an unprecedented Vote of Confidence in Congress.
60% : "President Trump is probably the most powerful president -- certainly the most powerful president of the modern era, and maybe in all of American history," Johnson said.
54% : "What changed my mind?
54% : Trump was golfing when he spoke to the holdouts, Norman said.
50% : That conversation eventually moved behind closed doors into one of the cloak rooms off of the chamber floor, where Trump phoned in to attempt to compel a change of heart.
43% : "It's unified government, and the Republicans have control of the Senate and the White House and the House, so it's a very different situation than the last Congress was, and they can hold me accountable for that," Johnson said.
42% : The math changed only when two of those Republicans flipped their votes -- a shift that came with a nudge from Trump, who called in amid the long vote to lobby for Johnson.
39% : " Trump brings Johnson over the finish line Trump's influence over the House GOP conference was in question in the lead-up to the Speaker vote after more than three dozen Republicans defied his demand to increase the debt limit last month.
32% : " Johnson also praised Trump for intervening to prevent a long-drawn process.
26% : "He said look, y'all make it happen, let's not let this thing run on much longer," Norman told reporters, recounting his conversation with Trump.
15% : After three Republicans voted for someone other than Johnson on the House floor, Trump called two of those defectors -- Norman and Self -- and lobbied them to change their votes, multiple sources told The Hill.

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