Citing the scourge of skyrocketing crime rates caused by illegal immigrants, out of control inflation, embarrassing leaks of classified information about Israel’s plans to strike back at Iran and other issues, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson says American citizens are “fed up and they know who to blame.”
On the Salem Media Group news program THIS WEEK ON THE HILL with Tony Perkins, Speaker Johnson—still honeycombing swing/toss-up Congressional districts all over America—reports that no matter where he travels, “Even in Blue States there is an energy out there that is difficult to overstate. There is just a lot of excitement out there and the fuel for it is that people are fed up and fired up about all the problems facing our country.”
Johnson contends that when voters see a candidate like former President Donald J. Trump on the campaign trail providing answers to America’s challenges—along with a bumper crop of solid Republican candidates for the House and Senate—it is resonating among voters, including the demographic shifts among Hispanics, African Americans and especially younger voters.
While Johnson and other Republican leaders might be dismissed as partisans merely engaging in wishful thinking as Election Day approaches, a sea change in public opinion polls continues to suggest that predictions of Vice President Kamala Harris’s pending Inauguration probably were a tad premature. Her disastrous “media tour” of friendly venues like “The View,” Howard Stern, and something branded the Call Her Daddy Podcast left intelligent voters scratching their heads as to what she possibly had hoped to gain.
This week’s “CNN Town Hall” with Anderson Cooper propelled her further into the annals of weirdness as she dodged and weaved through some pretty lame questions that my nephew who is in 5th grade in Oklahoma could have aced without breaking a sweat (and still had time leftover to enjoy a Slurpee at 7-11.) Kamala literally cannot answer “How much is 2 + 2?” without delivering another of her rambling diatribes about how Donald Trump is a Fascist, she grew up in a Middle Class home, let’s turn the page, we’re not going back, blah blah blah.
Of course even Harris cannot outdo perennial sourpuss and loser Hillary Clinton, who is so unhinged over Trump’s impending election that she’s even attacking his Madison Square Garden rally this weekend in deep blue New York City. The failed 2016 Democratic candidate for President is accusing Trump—hold onto your girdle, Myrtle—of seeking to “reenact” an infamous Nazi rally held at MSG 85 years ago. Hawking her new book on CNN, Hillary blurted out to host Kaitlan Collins that she, too, thinks Trump is “a Fascist” and added: “And you know, one other thing that you’ll see this week, Kaitlan, is Trump actually reenacting the Madison Square Garden Nazi rally in 1939.” (Call Nurse Ratched…another one just flew over the cuckoo’s nest.)
As Washington Examiner columnist Chris Tremolgie precisely documents, this hysterical comparison of Donald Trump to Hitler is “pure, unadulterated, radical, extremist, left-wing propaganda.
All of these factors and presumably countless others led to two print-media bombshells this week: The leftist rag The Los Angeles Times announced it “will not offer an endorsement of any candidate for President this year.” (As if Trump would ever have been considered. Remember, this is the same yellow journalism outlet that referred to my friend Larry Elder as “the black face of White Supremacy” when he ran for Governor of California in the 2021 Recall effort to oust Gavin Newsom.) So the non-endorsement really was kicking Kamala Harris to the curb in her home state.
The LA Times move was followed by a genuine political earthquake on the East Coast on Friday as The Washington Post—with its comical slogan Democracy Dies in Darkness and home to such rabid Trump-bashing columnists as Jennifer Rubin and Eugene Robinson—declared that it, too, will decline to endorse any White House candidate this year. You can just imagine the price-gougers stepping up to boost the cost of smelling salts being scarfed up by bartenders at the Old Ebbett Grill and throughout Georgetown as lobbyists and Democratic staffers from Capitol Hill keel over after hearing the news.
Despite all these well-deserved slings and arrows for Harris, Speaker Johnson cautions that this is no time for conservatives to get complacent or to pull back on their efforts to get out the vote.
“Our polling shows there’s a 10-point Early Voting swing toward Donald Trump in the battleground states of Florida, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Virginia and Wisconsin,” he says. “But one concern is that every Democrat in the House voted against the SAVE Act which would have required the states to demand proof of citizenship before anyone can vote in a federal election.”Johnson also notes that new evidence just emerging points to what is the equivalent of money laundering by Democrat funder Act Blue which apparently has been attaching names of ordinary citizens to large political contributions without their consent, violating Federal Election Commission rules.
Nevertheless, Mike Johnson is “pumped” as he enters the final days of the 2024 campaign. “We have got to get this election right. So get your friends, your family, and everyone at church…get out and vote. This one really, really counts.”
Tom Tradup is V.P./News & Talk Programming for Dallas-based Salem Radio Network and serves as Executive Producer of THIS WEEK ON THE HILL with Tony Perkins heard on radio stations nationwide and seen Saturday at 10AM Eastern time on the Salem News Channel.