REPORT: Johnson’s Religiosity Is Hurting Fundraising

Bloomberg reports:

House Republicans are falling further behind on campaign cash with little-known House Speaker Mike Johnson at the helm. Unlike his predecessor, Kevin McCarthy, Johnson is struggling to build a donor network. His difficulties come just months before the November election with Republicans’ narrow majority at risk.

The gap echoes a trend at the presidential level in which President Joe Biden is vastly out-raising presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump.

Johnson’s reputation as a devout evangelical Christian who frequently makes biblical references is at odds with the beliefs of some business executives invited to meetings and dinners, one person familiar with GOP fundraising said.

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