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Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s “really optimistic” that Washington will be an all-Republican city in January

Speaker Mike Johnson says he’s “really optimistic” that Washington will be an all-Republican city in January

House Speaker Mike Johnson said Just the news On Thursday, he became increasingly confident that Republicans will take control of Congress and the White House in next Tuesday’s election, saying Hispanics, blacks, Jews, unionists and other Democratic-leaning constituencies are turning out of frustration over that the country is moving in the wrong direction, changing parties.

“I feel really optimistic,” Johnson said in a wide-ranging interview with the John Solomon reports Podcast when asked about the GOP’s chances of a clean victory in Washington DC: “…I believe we will achieve a unified government with Republicans back in the White House and controlling the Senate, and we will have the Increase majority in the House of Representatives.”

Johnson said the election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris was a rare moment in U.S. history when voters could choose between two occupants of the White House – a former president and a current vice president – based on their record, not just their promises .

“I really believe we are going to see a historic demographic shift in this election,” he said. “I think when all the analysis is done on the other side, they will see that we had, for example, a record number of Hispanic and Latino voters coming into the Republican Party, a record number of black and African American voters,” Jewish voters , trade unionist. I mean, people are coming now who haven’t traditionally been in our camp.

“And the reason is that they are desperate for change and they know that the unique thing about this presidential campaign is that these two people had a government. This is not theoretical… They know what life was like under Harris and Biden, and they know what it was like under Trump, and I think that has a big impact across the board and throughout the election cycle,” he said.

You can listen to the full podcast here.

Johnson’s comments follow several recent polls that found several Democratic constituencies are seeing demographic shifts toward Trump, although Harris has a commanding lead among female voters.

The spokesman also responded to comments from Spanish-language television network Univision’s new CEO Daniel Alegre on the issue John Solomon reports Podcast on Wednesday that Hispanics are no longer a Democratic bloc, that they have become free-agent voters driven by issues and shifting this election toward Trump and the GOP.

“Hispanic and Latino voters are just like everyone else, and they are so fed up and so upset about the cost of living and rising crime rates in all their communities,” Johnson said, adding that border security has become another pressing concern for Latinos -Voters.

“In addition, remember that Hispanic and Latino voters are very family-oriented,” he added. “Many of them have deep religious traditions and beliefs and they see the Democratic Party abandoning all of those core principles. And they’ve had enough, and I think they’re just as frustrated as everyone else. I think that’s why they come to our camp.”

The Louisiana Republican said a Republican victory in Congress and the White House would set the stage for a major restructuring of the federal bureaucracy in 2025.

“What I’m most excited about is taking a blowtorch to the regulatory state because the authorities are completely out of control,” Johnson said. “They are armed. The federal government’s bureaucracy is too big. It does too many things. It does almost nothing well. And we have the government’s boot on the necks of job creators, entrepreneurs and risk takers and we need to get rid of that.”