Reality Hits Mike Johnson Like a Ton of Bricks

Mike Johnson spent weeks swearing that the polls were wrong, and now he's wearing an entire carton of eggs on his face. There's no drag at all, the president's out. No drag? No, no drag at all. The president is out doing these events and he's having huge turnout as you've seen, it's just like 2024. That's what it feels like to me. I have been in all the swing districts, I'm going everywhere. This whole cycle, of course, and I've seen the voters on the ground. I've traveled more, I'm telling you, the polls are wrong. They are inaccurate. campaigned more than anybody. They're under-representing Republicans, and many of the pollsters have admitted that. I'm telling you, the polling is wrong. Now, you have a lot of polling organizations right now acknowledging that they're under-sampling Republicans because Republicans don't want to respond to polls anymore. Don't buy it. I'm telling you, I'm on the ground in the swing districts. I am seeing huge energy in crowds. It feels like 2024 to me. That's not registering in the polls, and we're fired up. big arenas, Shannon, I ask for hands. Show me your hand if you've answered a poll in the last six months. There'll be like three hands among 300 people. I'm telling you, these polls are off, all of them, because they're using faulty analysis. We have set the ship of state on the right course, and it's got to be continued. And if you look in these individual races, House races across the country, it's a very simple decision. Every voter has has to ask themselves a simple question, which Which candidate is best for me and my family, my children, my aging parents? In every one of these cases, the Republican is offering common sense solutions a steady hand at the wheel. And the Democrats increasingly are going crazy. They really are. There's an insurgent Marxist left that is taking over that party. Republicans have delivered on our promises in 2024. We brought down costs. We cut their taxes in the largest tax cut in US history. We made their streets safer. We returned to American dominance. The Democrats voted against all of that. And people are looking at record over rhetoric. I am absolutely convinced huge crowds all over the country from New York to California, from Alaska with Nick Begich running for the House up there all the way to South Florida. We have gigantic crowds, big excitement. It feels just like 2024 to me. And I'm telling you, the polls are going to be historically wrong in this midterm election. And I'm feeling really good right now. I'm telling you, the polls are wrong, OK? We're going to defy history and we are going to be celebrating big victories on Tuesday night. That's my prediction, okay? Amen. It's a spiritual battle. As of just this recording, NBC News Decision Desk has Democrats up a net 29 seats in the House and projects them to finish with 258. And personally, I think it's going to go higher than that. And here's the speaker for a few more weeks anyway, explaining how that happened. Now, look, I just want to tell you what we face some real odds here. OK, from the first day of this election, we knew that to keep the House and sustain our majority, we would have to defy more than a century. of midterm history, okay? It's only happened twice in 90 years that a sitting president has picked up or held seats for his party in that first two-year cycle, and there's a lot of reasons for it. It's very, very difficult to overcome, and it looks like history will be kept tonight. We went on offense early. We launched one of the most dynamic political operations in the history of Congress, I promise you that. We made our case in terms of language of common sense. We said this Contrast election between common sense and crazy. And I will maintain that that is exactly what it was. All right. And I said from day one that I was going to leave everything on the field in this endeavor. And I'm proud to say that's exactly what we did. He's still running with common sense versus crazy. The exact slogan that voters just rejected across the board and across the country. That is how little he thinks of his own voters and it gets better. There is not a single American. Not a single American family anywhere is going to be made better off if Democrats turn Congress into a circus. And I'm afraid that is what some of them want to do, okay? If they make the next two years about retribution and lawfare and partisan games, every American will suffer by that. And I'll tell you what we will do. We will put a firewall of House Republicans standing in their way to ensure that doesn't happen, okay? All right? To every American disappointed by tonight's results, I mean, I'm disappointed too, but we are never discouraged, okay, because we live in the greatest nation in the world. Millions of Americans voted because they love their country. They voted in this election, and they're alarmed about the direction the Democrats are taking and their embrace of this socialist Marxist platform that is a threat to people everywhere, and every single time it's been tried, it's ended in human suffering and misery and pain and even death. Remember, Karl Marx wrote the... Communist Manifesto, and he used socialism and communism interchangeably. He said socialism was just a step to get to communism, which they thought was the utopia of the perfect society. It's a dangerous fool's errand. You know why Marxism begins with the wrong premise and ends in death? In fact, the communists have been responsible for the murder of tens of millions of innocent people in the 20th century alone. You know why it always leads to that? Because it begins with the wrong premise. If you walk in at eye level, as members do, the first thing you see that you can't miss it When you walk down that center aisle, you see In God We Trust right above the speaker's head on the rostrum, okay? Yeah, exactly. And I know this speech is being covered nationwide, and I want everybody to listen to what I'm about to tell you. If we were there tonight with all my friends there, I'd show you in the Visitor's Guide to the People's House, it's a book about this thick, talks about all the symbols in the chamber and why they're there and what it means. And if you turn to page 20, it talks about the national motto, and it says, It says, in 1962, Congress voted to put the national motto above the Speaker's head in the rostrum in the marble. It says in the book, quote, as a rebuke to the Soviets' philosophy during the Cold War. Now, what was the Soviets' philosophy during the Cold War? My friends, it's exactly what a bunch of Democrats right now are espousing, okay? When they voted in 1962, it was a unanimous vote. Every Democrat voted with every Republican. I shudder to think what would happen if I put that resolution on the floor when we get back. I don't know where that would be, but I'll tell you what. The reason they rebuke the Soviets' philosophy is because it begins with the wrong premise. Marxism, socialism, communism begin with the premise that there is no God. That is not what America is about. We better remember that in the days ahead. Um, listen, this election was always about much more than this one policy and red team versus blue team. It was about whether we're going to preserve and strengthen the American experiment. We're going to hand our country over to far left radicals who have captured the Democrat party, the battle for our country, that, that battle against this insurgent socialist movement and the battle to restore American greatness. None of that is over in any way. In fact, I'm going to tell you right now that fight. Has just begun for our generation, okay? We will win that fight for America. Red baiting is what you do when you can't defend your record, and Johnson can't. And honestly, isn't even really trying. But the deeper problem for Republicans is that they don't know who they are without dear leader Donald. And the stench of this second term is on everyone who carried water for it. And as of right now, that's basically every Republican. Now, we're gonna stay skeptical until 2028, but Mike Johnson promised a red wave. And to be fair, He did get the wave part of it right. Two years. That's how long Donald Trump is still, unfortunately, at the wheel. And a wounded authoritarian doesn't get gentler. He gets meaner. Executive orders, pardons, ICE, none of that needs a vote in Congress. And Donald Trump is going to lean on it even harder. So my prediction is that MAGA doesn't die. Not all at once, not quite yet. But it does change. It gets smaller, angrier, louder. But here's the thing. A movement that was built on one man's ego has no plan for the day that he's gone. Or even the days leading up to the day that he's gone. And every Republican in a swing district just watch what happens when you tie yourself to him. So his power over the rest of the Republican Party is already fastly waning. Now, come January, there is a House that can subpoena and investigate and say no, no, no, no, over and over if necessary. Now that isn't necessarily the end of MAGA just yet, but it's definitely the end of MAGA getting a free ride.