Though a U.S. citizen mowed down revelers on Bourbon Street, experts say the incoming president sees political and policy advantages in blaming immigrants and Islam for New Year's attack that killed 14.

Law enforcement officials have said that Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the assailant in the vehicular attack that killed 14 people in New Orleans, was a U.S. native.

Amid a fast-moving investigation, President-elect Donald Trump appeared to blame the New Orleans attack to immigration.

Colleagues of Speaker Mike Johnson observe that the famously strait-laced Republican does not drink or smoke, cuss, or fight. But he does gamble. That much was clear Friday.Johnson told reporters ahead of the vote that he expected to win reelection “on the first round.