Speaker Johnson traveling to Cincinnati for fundraiser with Reds owner

After surviving an ouster attempt, U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson will come to Cincinnati to raise money to increase the slim majority Republicans hold in the House.

Johnson will hold a fundraiser May 30 at an undisclosed location with former Speaker of the House and West Chester resident John Boehner, as well as Reds owner Bob Castellini, Punchbowl

News has reported. The fundraiser will cost $1,500 to $25,000 to attend and benefit Johnson’s Grow the Majority political action committee.

The location hasn’t been released to the public.

While here, Johnson will also try to win back the congressional seat representing Cincinnati and Warren County.

The Hamilton County Republican Party this week announced Johnson will headline a May 30 fundraiser in Cincinnati for Republican Orlando Sonza, who is running against incumbent

Democrat Rep. Greg Landsman in Ohio’s 1st Congressional District.

There will be fundraisers in Warren County and Hamilton County, but Sonza’s campaign wouldn’t release the locations. A “grassroots event” will cost $100 a person, according to the announcement from the GOP. A private reception will cost $1,000-$2,500.

“I think it’s getting on people’s radar,” said Hamilton County GOP Chair Russ Mock. about the 1st Congressional District race.

Greater Cincinnati is not entirely friendly Republican turf for Johnson. Republicans hold a narrow four-person majority in the U.S. House. Johnson just survived an attempt led by Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene and Northern Kentucky Rep. Thomas Massie to remove him from the speakership.

A second Cincinnati-area congressman, Rep. Warren Davidson, who represents western Hamilton County and Butler County, voted with Massie, Greene and eight other Republicans for a measure that could have led to Johnson’s removal.