Mike Johnson: “There's only five competitive Republican seats that someone…”

“And, you know, Darrell Ice has been a great friend and advisor. We're losing some, some real talent in retirements, but I'm happy for them. And I'll say spite of the false narrative, There's only five competitive Republican seats that someone is retiring out of. only five. And in 2018, we had, we were in, I think it was maybe 22 or 23 seats that was in that category. So we're comfortable about that.” (24:57–25:03)

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