WATCH: Reporter Asks Speaker Johnson If Biden’s Election Was ‘God’s Will’

When Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) was elected to his current position in October, he said his elevation to the third-highest position in the United States was because “God is the one who raises up those in authority.” On Wednesday, a reporter asked Johnson if the election of President Joe Biden “was God’s will.”

First, Johnson laughed, saying, “Oh, I know where you’re going with this.” His eventual answer was that it was — but he led with a caveat:

Okay, so, I said in my speech before I took the gavel that, look, I’m a Bible-believing Christian, right? Bible-believing Christian believes what the Bible says, right? The Bible says that God is the one that raises up people in authority. I believe God is sovereign. By the way, so did the founders. I quoted the Declaration of Independence. They acknowledged that our rights don’t come from government, they come from God and were made in His image. Everybody’s made the same. We all are given equal rights and value, and that’s something that we defend.

So if you believe all those things then you believe that God is the one that allows people to be raised in authority. It must have been God’s will then. That’s my belief, right?

So, that’s a “yes,” Johnson believes that Biden’s election was God’s will just as much as his was. Which means he might have finally acknowledged that Biden won the 2020 election after previously refusing to do so. However, he continued:

But I think that a nation makes a decision collectively because we’re given the free will to do that. And I think we’re going to make a much better choice as a country coming up in this election cycle. We’re very much looking forward to that regime change.

Watch the video above via C-SPAN.