Rep. Mike Lawler, R-N.Y., has warned his colleagues about the dangers of removing House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La.

Johnson can only afford to lose one vote among Republicans when the 119th Congress is sworn in to vote on its new leader.

“The fact is that Mike Johnson inherited a disaster when Matt Gaetz and several of my colleagues teamed up with 208 Democrats to remove Kevin McCarthy, which will go down as the single stupidest thing I’ve ever seen in politics,” Lawler said Sunday on “This Week.”

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