Speaker Mike Johnson: Americans Chose Economy and Border Security Over Abortion Extremism
President-elect Donald Trump’s landslide victory on Tuesday is proof that the American people have embraced a commonsense agenda and rejected abortion-centered fearmongering, according the U.S. Speaker of the House.
In a letter Wednesday, Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) congratulated his Republican colleagues “on winning one of the most extraordinary elections in history!” Noting that Republicans have taken back the White House and the Senate and are poised to expand their majority in the House, Johnson wrote, “The mandate that has been delivered shows that a majority of Americans are eager for secure borders, lower costs, peace through strength, and a return to common sense.” He added, “With unified Republican government, if we meet this historic moment together, the next two years can result in the most consequential Congress of the modern era.”
“To truly make America great again, we will need to begin delivering for the people on day one,” Johnson explained. “In preparation, we have worked diligently for the past year to be ready with a priority list of key conservative policy wins that we can achieve together with our Senate Republican colleagues, working hand-in-hand with the new Trump Administration,” he continued. Some of those priorities include taking the opportunity to “secure our borders, prioritize the needs of Americans above foreigners, promote investment and opportunity through the tax code, return to American energy dominance, dramatically reduce regulations, expand school choice, end the woke agenda, and restore fiscal sanity to Washington — among other pressing items.”
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“The American people have shown by their votes that they are ready to turn from the misery of the past four years and embark on a brighter, bolder path that is marked not by big government, bureaucratic control, poverty, inflation and wokeness — but by liberty, security, strength, prosperity and opportunity,” Johnson wrote. He asked his fellow House Republicans “for your support to continue leading this Conference as your Speaker. It has been the honor of my lifetime to serve with you thus far, and I look forward to playing the biggest offense of our lives. We have a country to save — and we will.”
In an Axios interview published Wednesday, Johnson explained that Democrats failed in the election when they made abortion their primary focus. “The entire Democrat campaign was run on abortion. They just ran abortion ads 24/7 in all the major markets,” Johnson said. The speaker explained that he attended and spoke at campaign events “in so many cities” across the U.S. and always found “the same concerns everywhere I went: It was the economy and the border, weakness on the world stage and the rising crime rates.” He concluded, “I think that’s what motivated the voters.”
Ahead of their election loss, Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and her running mate, Minnesota governor Tim Walz (D), campaigned extensively, almost exclusively, on abortion. Harris claimed that abortion does not contradict Christian morality (while dismissing the potential for religious exemptions, thereby forcing Christian doctors to carry out abortions and Christian taxpayers to fund them) and lied extensively about pro-life state laws. Walz teased the possibility of late-term abortions on demand and referred to the killing of unborn children as a “basic human right.” Johnson commented, “I don’t think that’s what the people were focused in on.”
LifeNews Note: S.A. McCarthy serves as a news writer at The Washington Stand.