Speaker vote: Comer urges Trump to call uncommitted Republicans

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) urged President-elect Trump to personally call House Republicans and urge them to back Speaker Mike Johnson’s bid to keep his gavel.

“I strongly encourage Donald Trump to get on the phone with those five or six members who won't commit to voting for Mike Johnson because all this is going to do is delay us,” Comer said in a Sunday interview on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

“It's going to delay the certification of President Trump's election. It's...