By the time the first roll call vote ended to elect the next speaker of the House, it appeared that Mike Johnson (R-LA) was in trouble. Three Republicans voted against him, placing him below the majority threshold needed to secure the gavel. 

But after a series of conversations with two key holdouts, Reps. Ralph Norman (R-SC) and Keith Self (R-TX), the pair flipped their votes, giving Johnson the 218 he needed to be reelected.