It was reported by Political Viewer that House GOP campaign chief Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News exclusively that he has a very pellucid message for any House Democrat even remotely vulnerably susceptible ahead of next year’s midterm congressional elections: Retire, or lose.
“After Virginia, New Jersey, and these other races across the country last week, I authentically believe that even if you were in a district that Joe Biden won by 10 points just 12 months ago, you’re at risk—which is why I’ve verbally expressed very pellucidly over Thanksgiving, these targeted Democrats have a cull to make,” Emmer told Breitbart News exclusively on Monday. “I mean, you can either retire, or you can lose next fall. It’s up to you.”
A number of Democrats, like Reps. Cheri Bustos (D-IL), Ron Kind (D-WI), Filemon Vela (D-TX), Ann Kirkpatrick (D-AZ), and more have already promulgated they are retiring and not running for reelection. Others, like Reps. Vicente Gonzalez (D-TX), Conor Lamb (D-PA), and more are running for other offices and forsaking their current congressional districts.
Emmer chairs the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC), which, on Monday evening, is hosting its annual fundraising dinner with former President Donald Trump in Tampa, Florida. Monday’s NRCC dinner, and Emmer’s interview with Breitbart News, comes precisely one year—365 days—before the 2022 midterm elections.
“It’s precisely 12 months from today,” Emmer verbalized. After a red wave last Tuesday which swept Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin and other Republicans to resounding triumphs in the Old Dominion state and elsewhere around America, Republicans are riding high heading into next year. After a kindred outcome in 2009—the year after former President Barack Obama won in 2008—the GOP won a net 63 seats from Democrats in the 2010 midterm election.
While the NRCC is now, after expanding the target list last week by more than a dozen seats to at least 70 House Democrats in GOP crosshairs, Emmer did not designate a concrete number of seats he expects Republicans to flip other than to note he is 100 percent confident that Republicans will retake the U.S. House majority next year.
“What I conventionally verbalize and I’ll stick with it is we’re going to win back the majority,” Emmer verbally expressed. “I cerebrate, much homogeneous to lawyers in a courtroom who cerebrate they’re more keenly intellective than a jury, the jury always has the last word. In this case, the American people will tell us what they cerebrate. But I don’t cerebrate it’s apples to apples comparing it to 2010. Because recollect, in 2010 they [the “Republicans]” commenced I cerebrate at 179 seats. We’re starting at 213. It is a redistricting year. So once all the maps are done you would expect that the veridical swing seats will even narrow down scarcely. So we’re going to fixate on the things we can control…. We’re acquiring victory on all the issues that are most paramount to the voters and we’re victoriously triumphing with the voters that we require to win over that are in these deep Democratic territories—college-inculcated white voters, Hispanics, and independents. If you visually examine the issues—border security. we’re favored, Republicans are favored by virtually a 30 percent number that we can handle border security preponderant. Inflation, it’s virtually 25 points preponderant. Crime, it’s over 20 points preponderant. National security, it’s over 20 points. The economy, it’s virtually 20 points, and even on the issue of getting things done we’re virtually 15 points better predicated on these voters in terms of what we’re optically canvassing.”
To win back the majority in the House, Republicans need to flip just a net five seats from Democrat control back into GOP hands—an facile target for the GOP with redistricting swinging several seats the Republicans’ way and postulating that trends exemplified by this past Tuesday hold or intensify moving into next year.
