{"id":5511,"date":"2026-08-28T22:09:29","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5511"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:09:29","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:09:29","slug":"conservatives-bushwhack-speaker-johnsons-weird-midterm-message-for-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5511","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives bushwhack Speaker Johnson\u2019s &#8216;weird&#8217; midterm message for GOP"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Republicans are facing a hard uphill battle in their fight to retain the House and Senate majority, but critics on social media say the party appears to be toiling up the wrong hill entirely.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5509\">The fine print: Trump hypes new \u2018Space Force\u2019 academy \u2014 but there\u2019s a catch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Conservative X account Republicans against Trump appeared to roll its eyes as they reposted Speaker Mike Johnson\u2019s plan to get Republicans re-elected this midterm\u2014plaster them with President Donald Trump\u2019s face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president\u2019s gonna look right in the camera and say, \u2018I am on the ballot.\u2019 Because even though his name isn\u2019t, right, his administration, his legacy, the America-first agenda is,\u201d said Johnson, speaking at a rally for Rep. Monica De La Cruz, (R-Texas) \u201cWe gotta get people to turn out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hold the majority. Hold the majority,\u201d said Johnson, quoting former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, while acknowledging \u201cthis is one of our toughest elections.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Critics rattled Johnson\u2019s post in responses.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreat idea, Mike,\u201d said one progressive account. \u201cDon\u2019t let anyone tell you otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHey \u2013 this works for me,\u201d said another.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe wants to guarantee a Democratic landslide,\u201d intoned another.<\/p>\n<p>Hecklers destroyed Johnson\u2019s advice because Trump\u2019s polling is lower than it has ever arguably been in his two terms as president. <\/p>\n<p>CNN Data analyst Harry Enten reported on Friday that as of the end of August, polls show that Trump being 21 points underwater, leaving him &#8220;stuck&#8221; in the basement. <\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5507\">WaPo catches Trump red-handed: White House faked ballroom progress<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow low does he go?!&#8221; Enten said. &#8220;Well, this is a president who is stuck on empty. Stuck on neutral. Whatever kind of gas analogy you want to make.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president&#8217;s approval rating, simply put, is low. His net approval rating is low. It is staying low, and there is no sign he&#8217;s getting out of the basement. He&#8217;s stuck on the ground,\u201d added Enten, comparing Trump\u2019s numbers to former President George W. Bush, who lost his huge majority after the September 11 attacks.<\/p>\n<p>With less than 70 days before the election, Enten said that it&#8217;s clear he&#8217;s &#8220;stuck&#8221; for good before November, and that he \u201csimply doesn&#8217;t see it going anywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This said progressive X posters, was reason to cheer Johnson\u2019s plan to make the midterms every bit about Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact that they STILL tie themselves to him is just &#8230; beyond weird. Almost a third of the country is registered as independent now (me) and I&#8217;m not sure this makes any sense. Wait, I&#8217;m SURE it doesn\u2019t make sense,\u201d said another heckler on X.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/nextaddressamerica.com\/?p=5506\">Biographer says \u2018300lb\u2019 Trump quaking in boots after celebrity deaths<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans are facing a hard uphill battle in their fight to retain the House and Senate majority, but critics on social media say the party appears to be toiling up the wrong hill entirely.Conservative X account Republicans against Trump appeared to roll its eyes as they reposted Speaker Mike John&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5510,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Conservatives bushwhack Speaker Johnson\u2019s &#039;weird&#039; 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