John­son to hud­dle at Mar-a-Lago with Trump and House GOP cam­paign chief

Johnson to huddle at Mar-a-Lago with Trump and House GOP campaign chief

House Speak­er Mike John­son (R‑LA) and Nation­al Repub­li­can Con­gres­sion­al Com­mit­tee Chair­man Richard Hud­son (R‑NC) are set to meet with for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Flori­da next week, two sources famil­iar with the meet­ing con­firmed to the Wash­ing­ton Exam­in­er. 
The three Repub­li­can lead­ers will meet on Mon­day as the GOP faces an uphill bat­tle to main­tain its slim major­i­ty next year while Trump also eyes a return to the White House. The meet­ing, two months after anoth­er trip to Flori­da by John­son, also under­scores his bud­ding rela­tion­ship with Trump, who helped stave off a threat to his speak­er­ship.
The planned vis­it comes as Trump pre­pares to make the rounds with GOP law­mak­ers in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., this week, timed to a meet­ing with the Busi­ness Round­table lob­by­ing group. Trump will meet with Repub­li­can sen­a­tors on Thur …