NEWT GINGRICH: Home Speaker Johnson deserves reelection

One 12 months in the past, the Home of Representatives was freed from a three-week interval of inside turmoil when Republicans voted for Mike Johnson to be Speaker of the Home. 

On the time, the leftist media raged and clutched their pearls at the concept that a true conservative would rise to the second-most vital job in Washington. The progressive media threw every part at Speaker Johnson hoping one thing would stick. They known as him “hard-right,” attacked the American flags he had exterior his workplace, and mocked his non secular beliefs. Democratic strategist James Carville even made the ludicrous declare that Johnson’s Christian religion was extra harmful to America than Al Qaeda.  

As former Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal wrote on the time, “It is just surprising to liberals that Republicans elected a speaker who shares most of the views held by their voters,” as a result of in Washington, “many elected officers promptly neglect their voters and marketing campaign guarantees 5 minutes after the polls shut.” 

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Right now, a 12 months after the left exploded with hysteria and hatred for Speaker Johnson – and the media began its steady drumbeat of cruel false attacks–Home Republicans ought to acknowledge the energy, resolve, management, and political acumen of Speaker Johnson. 

After being sworn in, Speaker Johnson indicated that he sought to protect, and govern in response to, his “seven core rules of American conservatism.” These included particular person freedom, restricted authorities, the rule of regulation, peace by means of energy, fiscal duty, free markets, and human dignity. Speaker Johnson has exceeded expectations on all seven of those fronts and constructed out a robust management group regardless of having one of many slimmest majorities in Congressional historical past. 

He fought for particular person freedom and human dignity, as he led the Home to deal with the antisemitic faculty campus protests and stood on the steps of Columbia College and pressured its president to resign for her tolerance of dysfunction and anti-Jewish hate. He stood for our values once more when he led the Home to override the Division of Training’s ridiculous rewrite of Title IX that allowed organic males to compete in ladies’s sports activities. 

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Speaker Johnson restricted the scope of presidency and confirmed his perception in fiscal duty when he inherited the FY24 appropriations mess. He pressured Democrats to strip $20 billion from President Joe Biden’s IRS growth, $6 billion from Biden’s unused COVID-era slush fund, and break the gross apply of presidency funding by omnibus. 

For the sake of the rule of regulation, Speaker Johnson led the Home to question Division of Homeland Safety Alejandro Mayorkas for his refusal to implement border safety legal guidelines and for ignoring lawful congressional subpoenas. Speaker Johnson secured funding for 22,000 border patrol brokers, the highest degree ever funded – and the identical quantity that have been approved in Republicans signature border laws, H.R. 2. He took up commonsense laws to guard our nation from legal aliens and uncovered Democrats’ radical document when the Home voted to deport unlawful aliens who steal, assault cops, and abuse ladies. He may have gone even additional, however in September, 14 Republicans aligned with Democrats towards Donald Trump to tank laws that will have pressured Sen. Chuck Schumer’s hand and required proof of citizenship for voters in order that solely Americans may vote in American elections. 

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Within the title of free markets and truthful commerce, Speaker Johnson has finished greater than some other Speaker to confront Communist China’s exploitation of the American economic system and unfair commerce offers. President Ronald Reagan as soon as stated that “free commerce is, by definition, truthful commerce”. Nobody is extra dedicated to safe precise free commerce for America’s markets and reversing Congress’ long-time tolerance for Beijing’s rule-breaking than Speaker Johnson. 

And for the sake of America’s international management, Speaker Johnson secured much-needed supplemental help for Israel – and the hardest sanctions bundle on Iran in almost a decade. He pressured Democrats to impose sanctions on Russia and China when Senate management selected to throw cash on the downside. He out-maneuvered Sen. Schumer and introduced Benajmin Netanyahu to the Capitol for a joint deal with. He even efficiently publicly shamed Canada into committing to satisfy its NATO spending obligations. It’s no shock that the Wall Road Journal Editorial Board labeled him “The Chief of the Free World.” 

After all, no Speaker is ideal, and Speaker Johnson could be the primary to come clean with his limitations. However as a former Speaker of the Home, I guarantee you that every one the critics who need Speaker Johnson to “maintain the road” or “be more durable” with Democrats have by no means been in Home management. They haven’t any grasp of how difficult the Speakership really is. As a warning to those that are much less non secular and who poke enjoyable at Speaker Johnson for his religion, do not forget that his devotion makes it nearly not possible to intimidate him. 

​The 2024 election lower than two weeks away. As voters marvel how a Republican-led Congress would govern, conservatives know what they’re getting with Speaker Johnson. He’s a daring, principled, considerate chief and legislator. He’s minimize from the identical fabric as President Reagan. 

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Speaker Johnson stands able to work with President Trump to safe the border, tear up the executive state, decrease taxes, minimize spending, and shield conventional American values. He’s a person who’s answered the decision of management within the face of the hardest circumstances however has confirmed himself to be an authentic lawmaker and devoted patriot. 

Merely put, Speaker Johnson deserves to be re-elected.

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