NEWT GINGRICH: House Speaker Mike Johnson deserves reelection

One twelvemonth ago, the House of Representatives was freed from a three-week play of interior turmoil erstwhile Republicans voted for Mike Johnson to beryllium Speaker of the House. 

At the time, the leftist media raged and clutched their pearls astatine the thought that a true conservative would rise to the second-most important occupation successful Washington. The progressive media threw everything at Speaker Johnson hoping something would stick. They called him "hard-right," attacked the American flags he had extracurricular his office, and mocked his religious beliefs. Democratic strategist James Carville even made the ludicrous claim that Johnson’s Christian religion was more dangerous to America than Al Qaeda.  

As erstwhile Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote astatine the time, "It is lone shocking to liberals that Republicans elected a talker who shares galore of the views held by their voters," due to the fact that successful Washington, "many elected officials promptly hide their voters and run promises 5 minutes aft the polls close." 

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Today, a year after the left exploded with hysteria and hatred for Speaker Johnson – and the media started its continuous drumbeat of merciless mendacious attacks--House Republicans should recognize the strength, resolve, leadership, and governmental acumen of Speaker Johnson. 

After being sworn in, Speaker Johnson indicated that he sought to preserve, and govern according to, his "seven halfway principles of American conservatism." Those included individual freedom, constricted government, the regularisation of law, bid done strength, fiscal responsibility, escaped markets, and quality dignity. Speaker Johnson has exceeded expectations connected each 7 of these fronts and built retired a beardown enactment squad contempt having one of the slimmest majorities successful Congressional history. 

He fought for idiosyncratic freedom and quality dignity, as he led the House to address the antisemitic college campus protests and stood connected the steps of Columbia University and pressured its president to resign for her tolerance of disorder and anti-Jewish hate. He stood for our values again when helium led the House to override the Department of Education’s ridiculous rewrite of Title IX that allowed biologic men to vie successful women’s sports. 

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Speaker Johnson limited the scope of government and showed his content in fiscal responsibility when helium inherited the FY24 appropriations mess. He forced Democrats to strip $20 cardinal from President Joe Biden’s IRS expansion, $6 billion from Biden’s unused COVID-era slush fund, and interruption the gross signifier of government funding by omnibus. 

For the involvement of the regularisation of law, Speaker Johnson led the House to impeach Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas for his refusal to enforce borderline information laws and for ignoring lawful legislature subpoenas. Speaker Johnson secured funding for 22,000 border patrol agents, the highest level ever funded – and the same number that were authorized in Republicans signature borderline legislation, H.R. 2. He took up commonsense authorities to support our state from criminal aliens and exposed Democrats’ extremist record when the House voted to deport illegal aliens who steal, battle cops, and maltreatment women. He could person gone adjacent further, but successful September, 14 Republicans aligned with Democrats against Donald Trump to vessel authorities that would person forced Sen. Chuck Schumer’s manus and required proof of citizenship for voters truthful that lone American citizens could ballot successful American elections. 

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In the sanction of escaped markets and just trade, Speaker Johnson has done much than immoderate different Speaker to face Communist China’s exploitation of the American economy and unfair commercialized deals. President Ronald Reagan erstwhile said that "free commercialized is, by definition, just trade". No 1 is much committed to secure actual free commercialized for America’s markets and reversing Congress’ long-time tolerance for Beijing’s rule-breaking than Speaker Johnson. 

And for the involvement of America’s planetary leadership, Speaker Johnson secured much-needed supplemental assistance for Israel – and the toughest sanctions bundle connected Iran successful astir a decade. He forced Democrats to enforce sanctions connected Russia and China when Senate enactment chose to propulsion wealth astatine the problem. He out-maneuvered Sen. Schumer and brought Benajmin Netanyahu to the Capitol for a associated address. He adjacent successfully publically shamed Canada into committing to conscionable its NATO spending obligations. It’s nary astonishment that the Wall Street Journal Editorial Board labeled him "The Leader of the Free World." 

Of course, nary Speaker is perfect, and Speaker Johnson would beryllium the archetypal to ain up to his limitations. But as a former Speaker of the House, I guarantee you that each the critics who want Speaker Johnson to "hold the line" or "be tougher" with Democrats person ne'er been successful House leadership. They person nary grasp of however analyzable the Speakership genuinely is. As a warning to those who are little spiritual and who poke amusive astatine Speaker Johnson for his faith, remember that his devotion makes it astir intolerable to intimidate him. 

​The 2024 predetermination little than 2 weeks away. As voters wonder how a Republican-led Congress would govern, conservatives cognize what they’re getting with Speaker Johnson. He’s a bold, principled, thoughtful leader and legislator. He’s cut from the aforesaid cloth arsenic President Reagan. 

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Speaker Johnson stands ready to enactment with President Trump to unafraid the border, tear up the administrative state, little taxes, cut spending, and support accepted American values. He’s a antheral who’s answered the telephone of leadership in the look of the toughest circumstances but has proven himself to beryllium an archetypal lawmaker and faithful patriot. 

Simply put, Speaker Johnson deserves to beryllium re-elected.

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