DALLAS — House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) thinks the challenges Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) will face next Congress from progressives and the Democratic Socialists of America will be different from what he has experienced atop the Republican conference. 

Johnson, signaling confidence that Republicans will hold on to their slim House majority in November, told the Washington Examiner during an exclusive interview on Day 1 of the party’s midterm convention that Jeffries is going to have a “rowdy bunch of openly avowed communists in his camp,” referring to the socialist candidates who have won Democratic primaries in deep blue districts nationwide.