House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) is feeling pretty good about his job security. Why it matters: As the election results rolled in Tuesday night, Johnson — who was once widely viewed as a placeholder leader — told Axios he's confident House Republicans will keep their majority and tap him to stay on as speaker.

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson easily dispatched a Republican opponent ... was first elected to the U.S. House in 2016 and became the lower chamber’s leader in October 2023. Johnson defeated substitute teacher Joshua Morott, a Republican who didn ...

House Speaker Mike Johnson has served in the post for little over a year, but his tenure has been marked with few legislative accomplishments and a series of splits within his conference that stymied his party’s agenda.