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Mike Johnson says the Republican Party is “very optimistic” about keeping voter energy high ahead of the election

Mike Johnson says the Republican Party is “very optimistic” about keeping voter energy high ahead of the election

House Speaker Mike Johnson says the Republican Party wants to continue its momentum in the final days of the election 2024 electionswhere the party wants to do “very well” in contested districts.

The Republican Party wants to regain control of both the White House and the Senate while increasing its majority in the Senate House of Representatives. Johnson stated that the Republican Party is “very optimistic” heading into this election cycle, and that he has been traveling “non-stop” before Election Day.

“And I’m going to the blue states and the swing districts, and the places where Republicans haven’t traditionally been expected to do well, we’re going to do well,” Johnson said on Fox News. Fox and Friends Sunday. “There will be a demographic shift and record numbers of Hispanic and Latino voters, black and African American voters, Jewish voters, union workers. There is an energy out there that is difficult to put into words, but is palpable.”

Johnson also reprimanded Vice President Kamala Harris and the former president’s “desperate” and “highly irresponsible” comparisons in her campaign Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler prior to the elections, during which two assassination attempts on Trump have already taken place.

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The speaker argued that Harris is using her platform to “turn up the heat” in the political sphere, and he and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have done just that. called on her to withdraw her comparisons.

The Republican Party’s goal of winning both the presidency and the Senate comes after experiencing a sub-par showing in the 2022 midterm elections, with the party gaining only a slim majority in the House of Representatives but failing to win a achieve a majority in the Senate. In the run-up to the 2024 elections, opinion polls have shown this Harris has only a 1 percentage point lead over Trump among independent votersa much narrower lead than the 13 percent lead that President Joe Biden had before suspending his re-election bid in July.