Rep. Jim Banks Predicts 2010-Level ‘Wave’ for House GOP by Embracing Trump, America First

House Republican Study Committee (RSC) Chairman Jim Banks (R-IN) predicted a 2010-level “wave” for the Republicans to take back the House majority by embracing former President Donald Trump’s “winning” America First platform and by exposing the left’s increasingly divisive policies, he told Breitbart News in an exclusive interview Friday.

Banks spoke to Breitbart News after he and members of the RSC met with Trump to discuss their policy agenda and path to gaining the majority back from Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).


Banks said, after speaking with the 45th president for hours, that Trump will be “extremely engaged” in the fight to take back the House. The Hoosier conservative said he also remains committed to drafting and guiding the House GOP towards an America First agenda.

Banks said that the RSC, which comprises roughly three-fourths of the House GOP Conference, will be working on crafting “a consensus conservative agenda that Republicans can rally around to help us win back the majority, and then an agenda that we can enact when we do…






https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/06/11/exclusive-rep-jim-banks-predicts-2010-level-wave-for-house-gop-by-embracing-trump-america-first/








I believe that he is right. The policies of congressional democrats combined with Biden lying about being a moderate will contribute to this. Generally parties with the President lose seats in the 2nd and 6th years of their term(s).

 

I look forward to Gingrich and Trumps new contract with America that puts America first so that we can MAGA again!

 

I absolutely agree this should be the Republican strategy. Y’all should parade around golden statues of trump while you are at it. Will definitely work

America First: where have I seen that slogan before?


Is that the time you are trying to get us back to?
Y’all keep referencing America is no longer great and we need to make it great again again — when is this again again?

 

How sad it must be to have sold your soul to a party that has to rely on two 75 plus year old men from days gone by for leadership and ideas.

Do you all not have anyone new in the ranks that might have a single good idea?

What are you going to do when these two old farts kick the bucket and your party has nothing else?

 

Full shade ...

 

I assume you'll latch on to anyone who predicts a GOP victory in 2022.

Just like you were convinced Trump would win a 2nd term.

 

Do not forget, he still thinks Trump won a 2nd term.

 

The LAST Contract ON American WORKERS was an abject DISASTER resulting in the 2008 GOP deregulated COLLAPSE of the economy.

The 2010 wave was voter ANGER against the ESTABLISHMENT for costing them their jobs in record numbers.

Short of ANOTHER economic collapse in the next 15 months that "wave" won't materialize.

So that leaves the EXTREMIST right with ONLY the worn-out Politics-of-Personal-Destruction that was the Grinch's only other strategy that BACKFIRED on him PERSONALLY when he tried to shut down the government for no good reason whatsoever.

The Dems are no longer the patsy's that they were in 2010 and are NOT going to just roll over and allow those kinds of dirty tricks swing elections.

They are already pushing back on the extremist VOTER SUPPRESSION of minorities and will be fighting for every seat in 2022.

Right NOW 2022 looks like a TOSSUP in that either side might end up winning but at this stage I suspect that there won't be any "wave" because there is NOTHING out there to give it momentum. NORMALLY it is APATHY that gives the GOP an EDGE in Midterm elections but the Dems have figured that out and are NOT going to sit back and allow themselves to be pummelled.

What MIGHT alter the 2022 "wave" outlook would be SCrOTUS overturning RvW! That WILL give the Dems the momentum THEY need to push for a "wave" for their own voter turnout.

Combine that possibility with the SHRINKING Boomer electorate having to compete with the GROWING Millennial and Gen Z voters and the Dems would have the EDGE they need.

Granted that is all SPECULATION this far out so I am sticking with the Tossup scenario for now.

 

I've been reading that sitting republican governors are going to be heavily primaried before the 2020 election. Mass, Ohio, Idaho, Texas, Georgia. The reason in each case? They took the pandemic too seriously and didn't buy into the Big Lie.

 

liberal playbook rule #1
If no good rebuttal, insert race and kkk pics whenever possible

 

I admit that the amalgam with the KKK is a bit easy, but one must also admit that the America First political propaganda is incredibly stupid.

If only half of the Trumpsters would buy exclusively American, the trade balance would be positive again in 30 days.

Except that Trumpsters are like all consumers: they don't care where what they buy comes from as long as it's cheaper.

Didn't Trump himself have condos built with Chinese steel?

 

Wow, all those Dems ........look at them just a rockin that America First slogan. You go Dems, keepin it real, keepin it true to their cause.

 

The GOP is likely to take back the House, and possibly the Senate whether they embrace Trump or not. It is like saying that if you embrace Trump, winter will come. Midterms seldom favor the party in power.

 

As compared to the age of Biden, Pelosi, the House democrat leadership team, and youngsters like Elizabeth Warren,Dianne Feinstein, Bernie Sanders?

 

Nope, they are about the same. Thank you for the support, since I make that claim all the time.

 

That is their pathetic bottom line.

 

That's right.

Except that there are two things that will greatly hurt the GOP:

1- In November 2022, the US will be in the middle of a tremendous economic recovery.

2- Trump doesn't want to leave the public square. And he's an incredible motivator to vote for the Democrats.

 

Yeah the supporters for the party in power always claims it isn't gonna happen this time. They are usually wrong. Tremendous economic recovery=rich getting richer. Not exactly the Biden message now is it.

 

Except, it's not that simple. Made in America products are increasingly harder to find in shelves, and as you point out if you do go out of your way to try and find 'made in America' products they are usually pretty expensive. We would/should promote more made in America products and for them to be cheaper.

So I just looked up a Forbes article while replying to this question. It seems a multitude of factors, some we can't control(Chinese slave labor) but others that we can: Quality production, infrastructure and worker development. All of which we've been lacking for a long time(and that's why we've always struggled with getting our work force numbers up.)

I think tackling all this, the best way to invest in businesses wouldn't just be a dollar sign of investment but to specify that a stimulus would get towards training, and infrastructure to get Americans working again rather than the next CEO pay. If the government is going to be an economic force for good, it needs to use its weight to influence the market in a course corrective action.

All of this would be part of my America First agenda. America First means simply that: We don't need to be Europe or Asia's lab rat. We are Americans, we should seek out win-win propositions, but never one where we lose or downgrade. We do not beholden ourselves to the "international community".

Either we are equal to the community, or as an alternative: The community is beholden to us. That's what it means to be America First.

 

Why do conservatives always forget that the last presidential election was a referendum AGAINST Trump! Yes, Trump got 74million votes, but Biden got 81 million ! People didnt vote FOR Biden, they voted AGAINST Trump. If true conservatives want to win in 2024, they need to leave Trump behind. If they do that, thenYES, they will get those levels back. But the “everything is a conspiracy against republicans” wing of the party has to stop for that to happen also.

Today’s Republican Party is not a Conservative party, they are the X-Files party. Everything is a conspiracy, everyone is out to get them, and they honestly believe that they are victimized at every turn. For true conservatives to vote for them they have to figure that out.If they want 4 more years of Trumpism they are going to get soundly defeated at the ballot box. If they run on sound conservative principals, and not on “the election was stolen” they will win.

But also understand one thing. Conservatives will win because the liberal side of the country is such a clusterfuck that there is no other choice. The liberal messaging is soooooooooo BAD right now they couldn’t elect s dog catcher with a “d” after their name.

 

Conservative playbook rule #1: Whine about everything

I don’t need a rebuttal, I agree that that is the way forward for what has become of the Republican party. Please endorse the policies that cost y’all both an incumbent presidency and both chambers of congress.

Worship your deity.

As to the “KKK pics” — it isn’t my fault conservatives keep falling on past slogans and policy.
If you don’t like history being mentioned… well, stop repeating it. Simple.

 

Yet y’all are mimicking them?
I am guessing you didn’t know that was the conservative party of the day… or you did and you are just trying to troll? I know you would never do that though so we will go with ignorance.

 

But you failed. The kkk was democrats. Thanks for reminding everyone

 

I'll do as I always do, hold my nose and vote Republican, SOLELY because the Democrats decided over 30 years ago the 2nd Amendment was disposable. But the Republicans better start articulating WHY they have a better way rather than dreaming there's an army of voters crying in their pillows pining for Trumps return. As much as they (and some Democrats) think it, IT AIN'T SO, the majority have moved on to the future....the Republicans ignore that at their electoral peril.

 

FDR was an anti-war America Firster until the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

“All this—all these objectives—spell peace at home. All our actions, all our ideals, spell also peace with other nations.

Today there is war and rumor of war. We want none of it. But while we guard our shores against threats of war, we will continue to remove the causes of unrest and antagonism at home which might make our people easier victims to those for whom foreign war is profitable. You know well that those who stand to profit by war are not on our side in this campaign.

"Peace on earth, good will toward men"—democracy must cling to that message. For it is my deep conviction that democracy cannot live without that true religion which gives a nation a sense of justice and of moral purpose. Above our political forums, above our market places stand the altars of our faith—altars on which burn the fires of devotion that maintain all that is best in us and all that is best in our Nation.

We have need of that devotion today. It is that which makes it possible for government to persuade those who are mentally prepared to fight each other to go on instead, to work for and to sacrifice for each other. That is why we need to say with the Prophet: "What doth the Lord require of thee—but to do justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with thy God." That is why the recovery we seek, the recovery we are winning, is more than economic. In it are included justice and love and humility, not for ourselves as individuals alone, but for our Nation.

That is the road to peace.”
Transcript of President Franklin Roosevelt's Radio Address unveiling the second half of the New Deal (1936)
Campaign Address at Madison Square Garden, New York City. "We Have Only Just Begun to Fight." October 31, 1936.