{"id":987256,"date":"2021-11-08T23:43:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=987256"},"modified":"2021-11-08T23:43:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T04:43:49","slug":"exclusive-house-gop-campaign-chief-to-democrats-you-can-either-retire-or-lose-next-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-house-gop-campaign-chief-to-democrats-you-can-either-retire-or-lose-next-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive \u2014 House GOP Campaign Chief to Democrats: \u2018You Can Either Retire, or Lose Next Fall\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/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-house-gop-campaign-chief-to-democrats-you-can-either-retire-or-lose-next-fall%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=987256&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/tom-emmer-filephoto2015-ap-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">House GOP campaign chief Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) told Breitbart News exclusively that he has a very clear message for any House Democrat even remotely vulnerable ahead of next year\u2019s midterm congressional elections: Retire, or lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Virginia, New Jersey, and these other races across the country last week, I really believe that even if you were in a district that Joe Biden won by 10 points just 12 months ago, you\u2019re at risk\u2014which is why I\u2019ve said very clearly over Thanksgiving, these targeted Democrats have a choice to make,\u201d Emmer told Breitbart News exclusively on Monday. \u201cI mean, you can either retire, or you can lose next fall. It\u2019s up to you.\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>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 announced 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 abandoning their current congressional districts.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s NRCC dinner, and Emmer\u2019s interview with Breitbart News, comes exactly one year\u2014365 days\u2014before the 2022 midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s exactly 12 months from today,\u201d Emmer said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>After a red wave last Tuesday which swept Virginia Governor-elect Glenn Youngkin and other Republicans to resounding victories in the Old Dominion state and elsewhere around America, Republicans are riding high heading into next year. After a similar outcome in 2009\u2014the year after former President Barack Obama won in 2008\u2014the GOP won a net 63 seats from Democrats in the 2010 midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>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 specify a specific 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I usually say and I\u2019ll stick with it is we\u2019re going to win back the majority,\u201d Emmer said. \u201cI think, much like lawyers in a courtroom who think they\u2019re smarter than a jury, the jury always has the last word. In this case, the American people will tell us what they think. But I don\u2019t think it\u2019s apples to apples comparing it to 2010. Because remember, in 2010 they [the Republicans] started I think at 179 seats. We\u2019re starting at 213. It is a redistricting year. So once all the maps are done you would expect that the true swing seats will even narrow down a little bit. So we\u2019re going to focus on the things we can control\u2026. We\u2019re winning on all the issues that are most important to the voters and we\u2019re winning with the voters that we need to win over that are in these deep Democratic territories\u2014college-educated white voters, Hispanics, and independents. If you look at the issues\u2014border security. we\u2019re favored, Republicans are favored by almost a 30 percent number that we can handle border security better. Inflation, it\u2019s almost 25 points better. Crime, it\u2019s over 20 points better. National security, it\u2019s over 20 points. The economy, it\u2019s almost 20 points, and even on the issue of getting things done we\u2019re almost 15 points better based on these voters in terms of what we\u2019re looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To win back the majority in the House, Republicans need to flip just a net five seats from Democrat control back into GOP hands\u2014an easy target for the GOP with redistricting swinging several seats the Republicans\u2019 way and assuming that trends exemplified&nbsp; by this past Tuesday hold or intensify moving into next year.<\/p>\n<p>Emmer said that Tuesday\u2019s elections in Virginia, New Jersey, and elsewhere nationwide were a \u201cconfirmation\u201d that Republicans are focused on the right policies and Democrats are not.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat was an affirmation of what we\u2019ve been saying for months,\u201d Emmer said. \u201cIt started with the $1.9 trillion spending bill that they did last February, where they were told by their own economists this is going to spike inflation. It started with, even go back to January 20, when this President signed executive orders killing over 10,000 good-paying energy jobs and effectively ending American energy independence, that we\u2019d achieved over the previous four years. So everything they\u2019ve got, one incompetent move after the next one, one entirely partisan move after the next one, culminated last Tuesday with some very interesting results. Not surprising, I would have hoped that that would be the result. What\u2019s surprising to me is they still don\u2019t get it. They still don\u2019t understand. They don\u2019t understand that this is literally a movement, that people are focused on restoring the freedom that this country is supposed to offer. And what do these people do? They\u2019re told last Tuesday night that \u2018We don\u2019t want more big government.\u2019 So their answer? \u2018Quick, let\u2019s get back to Washington and pass more big government.\u2019 They just are totally out of touch with Main Street America, and that\u2019s why they\u2019re going to lose next fall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emmer also said most of the media and the left and Democrats have yet again missed what is happening in the country.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhere they\u2019re missing it is they want it to be about their narrative. That\u2019s the problem. That is not what the American people, I think, think about it,\u201d Emmer said. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about the issues that matter most. We\u2019re talking about inflation, which over 70 percent of the voters in these swing districts are extremely concerned about inflation, rising prices in the grocery store, rising prices at the pump, they\u2019re having their purchasing power hollowed out as we speak. We\u2019re talking about the crime wave that has become a major issue across this country as a direct result of the crazy insanity of defund the police, which is a Democrat issue. We\u2019re talking about the border, right? These guys are talking about, while a suburban mom is trying to put 10 bucks into her van so she can pick up her kids at school and then go over the grocery store and pay four times what she was paying just 10 months ago for the same hamburger that she\u2019s going to try and make a meatloaf with, these guys are talking about climate change and talking about all the wrong things. They\u2019re talking about raising taxes, and putting more burdens on the American people and on that education issue, for goodness sakes, that education issue has nothing to do with Critical Race Theory as much as it has to do with you had the parents that were asking to be involved in their children\u2019s education. Instead of listening to the parents and siding with their children, these Democrats have sided with powerful teachers unions at the expense of the kids\u2014that\u2019s what that was all about. If you\u2019re going to, quite frankly\u2014I probably shouldn\u2019t say it this way\u2014but if you\u2019re gonna piss off Mama Bear, Mama Bear is gonna show up and protect her cubs. She showed up last Tuesday and said: \u2018You\u2019re fired. We\u2019re gonna hire somebody who\u2019s going to listen to us.\u2019 That\u2019s what this is about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s more, the Democrats have desperately tried to make everything about Trump\u2019s personality\u2014rather than the issues and ideas he and other Republicans stand for. Monday night Emmer\u2019s party committee is happily hosting Trump in Tampa, Florida, for its big annual dinner with donors, but he said the party is a movement of ideas and the policies that Trump championed in office that remain extremely popular.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, we\u2019re in Tampa, Florida, where people are free to associate without these ridiculous restrictions, and we\u2019re excited to have the former president come and speak to our members, to our donors,\u201d Emmer told Breitbart News. \u201cIt\u2019s what you and I have been talking about\u2014his policies are still extremely popular. And we look forward to highlighting it. Whether it was energy independence, whether it was a secure border, whether it\u2019s peace in our streets and people being able to live together safely, as we go forward that\u2019s what we\u2019re going to advocate for. Think about it: a vote for a Republican next fall is going to be a vote to control and rein in big government, rein in the spending, get control of inflation, put people back in charge of their economic future. A vote for a Republican next fall is going to be a vote for safety and security in our communities. A vote for a Republican next fall is going to be about a secure border, it\u2019s going to be about putting parents back in charge of their children\u2019s education and giving individuals the right to make decisions that are best for them. As far as the president and his future, you know he\u2019s going to make his own choices, and he\u2019ll weigh in where he decides. But I can guarantee you this: that whether it\u2019s our members, our supporters, I think Americans quite frankly, both left and right of center, along with the former president, are committed to firing Nancy Pelosi and stopping Democrats\u2019 big government socialist agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>What\u2019s more, on immigration, the NRCC this week released polling data showing a devastating swing against Democrats on it. In the so-called \u201cBuild Back Better\u201d bill that Democrats are considering jamming through on partisan lines to spend trillions more money, there are provisions contained within it that would increase immigration levels to the United States\u2014something that a majority of Americans disapprove of, according to the NRCC polling. Asked about this, Emmer slammed President Joe Biden\u2019s administration for trying to pay off illegal aliens $450,000 each\u2014and noted that immigration is a \u201ckitchen table issue\u201d and a \u201cpocketbook issue\u201d to ordinary Americans and that it has an economic effect as well as a public safety impact.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, the immigration issue is is a pocketbook issue. They\u2019re making it more so,\u201d Emmer said. \u201cI just have to go to one piece, as you were talking about it\u2014this issue of compensating illegal immigrants who were separated at the border. You\u2019re coming into the country illegally. And now, we\u2019re supposed to compensate you for some type of some type of trauma? That\u2019s 3-to-1 that Americans disapprove of the notion that you\u2019re going to give them any money, let alone $450,000 per family. It\u2019s just insane. But I\u2019m sorry, I got off a little bit. You\u2019re talking about immigration being a kitchen table issue and how it impacts. The bottom line is that polling showed us this is still a very potent issue for Americans. This is something that, while some people would want to write it off, this is something that Americans care about, and this administration has completely punted on the immigration issue and talk about incompetence. I think it\u2019s almost willful incompetence.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"8.0816326530612\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">NEW NRCC POLL: Voters oppose Democrats\u2019 plans to give illegal immigrants amnesty and a massive taxpayer-funded payday. <\/p>\n<p>Read the full memo \u2b07\ufe0f \u2b07\ufe0f \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/t9QaLjqPKQ\">https:\/\/t.co\/t9QaLjqPKQ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/LovW5pJd3O\">pic.twitter.com\/LovW5pJd3O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NRCC (@NRCC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NRCC\/status\/1457395756164337672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Emmer concluded the interview by noting, too, that the more Democrats make the midterms and future elections about \u201cpersonality\u201d and not about issues, the more they lose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about a movement. They want to make this about personality every day of the week. It\u2019s got nothing to do with that,\u201d Emmer said. \u201cBy the way, that\u2019s fine. They stand to get hurt even more at the ballot box. Americans are tired of this stuff. They\u2019re smarter than these people are giving them credit for. The arrogance on the other side is what\u2019s costing them on a daily basis as much as their misguided policies that are out of touch with mainstream USA.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House GOP campaign chief Rep. 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