The GOP is aiming to reclaim the White House and Senate while expanding its House majority. Johnson shared that Republicans are feeling “very bullish” as Election Day nears and noted he’s been traveling “non-stop” in the lead-up.
“And I go to the blue states, and the swing districts, and the places Republicans are not traditionally expected to do well, we are going to do well,” Johnson said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends Sunday. “There’s going to be a demographic shift and a record number of Hispanic and Latino voters, Black and African American voters, Jewish voters, union workers. There’s an energy out there that is difficult to really articulate, but it is palpable.”
Johnson also criticized Vice President Kamala Harris and her campaign’s “desperate” and “very irresponsible” comparisons of former President Donald Trump to Adolf Hitler, highlighting that two recent assassination attempts have been made against Trump.
He argued Harris is using her platform to “turn the heat up” in politics, and both he and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) have urged her to retract the comparisons. The Republican Party’s push for the presidency and Senate follows a narrow House victory and a Senate loss in the 2022 midterms. With the 2024 election approaching, polls suggest Harris holds only a 1-point lead over Trump among independent voters—down from the 13-point lead President Joe Biden had before suspending his reelection bid in July.
