Citing the scourge of skyrocketing crime rates caused by illegal immigrants, out of control inflation, embarrassing leaks of classified information about Israel’s plans to strike back at Iran and other issues, U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson says American citizens are “fed up and they know who to blame.”

On the Salem Media Group news program THIS WEEK ON THE HILL with Tony Perkins, Speaker Johnson—still honeycombing swing/toss-up Congressional districts all over America—reports that no matter where he travels, “Even in Blue States there is an energy out there that is difficult to overstate. There is just a lot of excitement out there and the fuel for it is that people are fed up and fired up about all the problems facing our country.”

Johnson contends that when voters see a candidate like former President Donald J. Trump on the campaign trail providing answers to America’s challenges—along with a bumper crop of solid Republican candidates for the House and Senate—it is resonating among voters, including the demographic shifts among Hispanics, African Americans and especially younger voters.

While Johnson and other Republican leaders might be dismissed as partisans merely engaging in wishful thinking as Election Day approaches, a sea change in public opinion polls continues to suggest that predictions of Vice President Kamala Harris’s pending Inauguration probably were a tad premature. Her........

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