House Speaker Mike Johnson expressed increasing confidence to Just the News on Thursday that Republicans will secure control of Congress and Donald Trump the White House following next Tuesday’s election. He noted that Hispanics, Blacks, Jews, union workers, and other traditionally Democratic constituencies are switching parties due to frustrations over the country’s direction.
“I feel really bullish,” Johnson said in a wide-ranging interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast when asked about the GOP’s chances for a clean sweep of Washington D.C. “….I believe we’re going to win unified government with Republicans back in the White House and controlling the Senate, and we grow the House majority.” Johnson further stated that the election between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris represents a unique moment in U.S. history, allowing voters to choose between two individuals with established records— a former president and a current vice president— rather than relying solely on promises.
“I genuinely believe we’re going to have an historic demographic shift in this election,” he said. “I think when all the analysis is done on the other side of this, they will see that we had a record number of Hispanic and Latino voters, for example, coming into the Republican Party, a record number of Black and African-American voters, Jewish voters, union workers. I mean, people who have not traditionally been in our camp are coming now.
“And the reason is because they’re desperate for change, and they know the unique thing about this presidential contest is that both of these persons have had an administration. This isn’t theoretical…. They know what life is like under Harris and Biden, and they know what it was like under Trump, and I think that has a big effect across the board and all the way down the ballot,” he said.
Johnson’s remarks come in light of several recent polls indicating demographic shifts toward Trump among various Democratic constituencies, even though Harris maintains a strong lead with female voters. The Speaker also responded to comments made by the new CEO of the Spanish-language TV network Univision, Daniel Alegre, on the John Solomon Reports podcast on Wednesday. Alegre stated that Hispanics are no longer a solid Democratic bloc; instead, they have become free-agent voters driven by issues and are shifting their support toward Trump and the GOP in this election, Just the News reported.
“Hispanic and Latino voters are just like everybody else, and they they’re so fed up and fired up about the cost of living and rising crime rates in all their communities.,” Johnson said, noting further that border security has become another compelling concern for Latino voters.
“And then also, on top of that, 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 these sort of foundational principles. And they’ve had enough, and I think they have the same frustration everybody else does. I think that’s why they’re coming into our camp.”
The Louisiana Republican stated that a GOP sweep of Congress and the White House would pave the way for a substantial reorganization of the federal bureaucracy in 2025. “The thing I’m most excited about, is taking a blowtorch to the regulatory state because the agencies are completely out of control,” Johnson said. “They’re weaponized. The bureaucracy of the federal government is too big. It does too many things. It does almost nothing well. And we have the government’s boot on the neck of job creators and entrepreneurs and risk takers, and we’ve got to remove that.”
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