“If Johnson gets confirmed in one vote, it’s a good vote of confidence in Trump,” Doescher told Fox Business just prior to the first round of voting.

Trump’s incoming administration needed the speakership to be filled quickly if he had any chance of meeting all of the first-day promises he made throughout the 2024 campaign, she said.

“Johnson is the only one who’s proven he has the ability to get to those 218 votes, and he already has a leadership plan on Day One,” Doescher said. “Most of his bills that he wants to bring to the floor are immediate border bills.

“Bills that would allow, without Trump doing anything, DHS to enforce the law as written … making it so that law enforcement would have to arrest any illegal immigrant charged with theft. In the broader context of all this is Trump’s tax bill.”

Trump wants Republicans “on board” so his first day in office can begin with the reform voters asked for, Doescher said.

“The idea is that now that Republicans will not just have a razor-thin majority in the House but a pretty compelling margin in the Senate, they will hopefully not have to do these omnibus packages that nobody loves but are required in order to keep the lights on,” she said.