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The White House doesn’t often call White House, Tennessee. But on Monday morning at the Colorado Grill—a burger joint on the two-lane highway going through this town about 30 miles north of Nashville—Donald Trump was on the phone.

He was calling Speaker Mike Johnson, who was going through the motions of saying hello to patrons who had shown up for an early lunch. Johnson was there for some last-ditch campaigning ahead of Tuesday’s special election, when voters in Tennessee’s 7th District will send a new representative to the House. And Trump was checking in with Johnson for a status report on how the race was going.

Johnson put the President of the United States

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