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House Speaker Mike Johnson has made his closing pitch to voters one week before the November 3 midterms: keep Republicans in charge of the House, or watch the border reopen, the party's tax cuts repealed, and Congress descend into two years of political chaos.
Johnson laid out the warning in a series of posts on October 17 and 18, writing that 17 months had passed with zero illegal immigrants released into the country, that the border is secure thanks to Republicans, and that Democrats allowed the most illegal immigration ever during Joe Biden's 48 months in office — and would reopen the border if they won. A Democratic victory, he wrote, would be disastrous: big government socialism, higher prices and taxes, reopened borders, surging crime, and chaos in Congress.
He made the same case on Fox News on October 18, saying that if control of the House changed hands, the result would be chaos, and that Democrats would attempt to reverse the Republicans' tax policies.
The warning is the other half of the record Johnson has been campaigning on as he marks three years as speaker. He told Fox News Digital that House Republicans, governing with one of the smallest majorities in history, delivered the largest tax cuts for working families in American history, added one million private-sector jobs, cut $1.6 trillion in spending, secured the border, reversed Biden-era regulations, achieved the lowest violent crime rate in 126 years and the largest decline in prescription drug prices in 60 years, created Trump accounts for every child, and passed the first nationwide school choice program. Johnson has also warned that a Democratic majority would bring renewed investigations of President Trump — he told Fox News on October 8 that losing the majority could mean another impeachment push.
Johnson has also raised $526 million for House Republicans in this election cycle alone, and $860 million across his speakership, and has campaigned in more than 40 districts across 22 states in the final month.
The pitch comes against difficult polling for his party. An October 15 Associated Press-NORC survey found 84 percent of respondents calling the cost of living one of the most important issues in their midterm vote, and 47 percent preferring Democrats to control the House against 38 percent who prefer Republicans. Johnson has dismissed the polls as faulty and insisted Republicans can defy history and keep the majority.