{"id":1411219,"date":"2022-03-30T18:14:51","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411219"},"modified":"2022-03-30T18:14:56","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:14:56","slug":"exclusive-rep-jim-banks-gop-must-lean-into-cultural-issues-ahead-of-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-rep-jim-banks-gop-must-lean-into-cultural-issues-ahead-of-the-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive &#8212; Rep. Jim Banks: GOP Must &#039;Lean into&#039; Cultural Issues Ahead of the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-rep-jim-banks-gop-must-lean-into-cultural-issues-ahead-of-the-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1411219&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) said it is important for the Republican Party to \u201clean into\u201d cultural issues as they gear up to take back the House and Senate from Democrat control in November.<\/p>\n<p>When asked by Breitbart News what the RSC is focusing on to help Republicans take back the House this year, Banks pointed to a memo he wrote to his RSC colleagues one year ago, where he \u201ctold them to lean into these culture issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t back away from them. Lean into them. And in hindsight, we couldn\u2019t have been more right,\u201d Banks said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur voters expect us to fight back against Critical Race Theory, anti-American ideologies being taught in schools, radical gender theories being taught in schools, and pushed on our institutions, stopping biological boys and men from competing in girls and women\u2019s sports,\u201d he continued. And indeed, this has worked, as seen in November with Gov. Glenn Youngkin\u2019s (R) victory in Virginia.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19505010\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/Young.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin with wife Suzanne Youngkin wave to the crowd before his inauguration ceremony, Saturday, Jan. 15, 2022, in Richmond, Va. (Julio Cortez\/AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cSo these are big issues that the vast majority of Americans are on our side, so lean into it. Lean into these big fights that are important to our voters and we\u2019ll be rewarded for it, and I think we\u2019re seeing that very much come true,\u201d he added, using Florida. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) as a prime example of a leader who stands up to bullies.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19007650\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/desantis-thumbs-up-getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19007650\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/desantis-thumbs-up-getty.jpg\" alt=\"desantis florida\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis during a campaign event on October 23, 2020 in The Villages, Florida. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Florida bill is a really good bill and I strongly applaud Gov. DeSantis and the state legislatures in Florida for passing it,\u201d he said of the Parental Rights in Education act, which DeSantis signed this week. It prohibits classroom discussions on sexual orientation and gender identity for children in kindergarten through third grade.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParents don\u2019t want their elementary-school age kids going to school and having a radical gender theory ideology pushed on them or other left-wing ideologies pushed on them when they\u2019re in first, second and third grades,\u201d Banks said, noting that \u201cwoke corporate CEOs and the ACLU and others\u201d are \u201ctrying to push their agenda and influence governors and state legislatures to back down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the biggest lesson we learn over and over again that nobody teaches us more than Gov. DeSantis is that when you don\u2019t back down to bullies, voters reward you for it,\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Rep. 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