Johnson warns Democrat midterm victory would unlock sweeping socialist power: ‘2026 is different’

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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Friday made an eleventh-hour appeal to voters, warning that handing Democrats wins in the midterm elections would empower socialists to make sweeping changes to the American way of life.

In an op-ed for USA Today, the top House Republican described what he sees as the dangers of voting Democrats into power on Nov. 3, as undecided and more centrist voters weigh which party they will back on Tuesday. Johnson said the Democratic Party is increasingly vulnerable to takeover from the growing socialist movement, which he said would “tear down the American system,” comparable to the riots sweeping France.

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