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House Speaker Mike Johnson’s best chance to keep the gavel is to allow House Democrats to vote for him, Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) told reporters Friday.

Johnson can only lose one House Republican without a single Democrat vote. Up to 25 House Republicans are possibly voting against Johnson for Speaker, a senior House GOP staffer told Breitbart News’s Matt Boyle.

If Democrats, along with some establishment Republicans, enable Johnson to retain the speakership, he would be in a power-sharing agreement with House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries; the Democrat leader would demand something of Johnson in return for Democrat votes.

A power-sharing agreement in the House seems unpalatable for Trump, who won a landslide election to implement his agenda.

Johnson’s speakership, according to Romney’s scenario, appears to be in an untenable position: Johnson either accepts Democrat votes to remain Speaker, dismissing Trump’s mandate and infuriating the Republican base, or forgoes standing for re-election.

Wendell Husebo is a political reporter with Breitbart News and a former RNC War Room Analyst. He is the author of Politics of Slave Morality. Follow Wendell on “X” @WendellHusebø or on Truth Social @WendellHusebo.