BY TYLER O'NEIL | P J Media
Setting his sights on the 2022 midterm elections, former
President Donald Trump has begun crafting a policy agenda that echoes a
historic Republican election victory under a Democratic president, the
“Contract with America” in 1994. Trump has also brought in the man responsible
for the 1994 midterm victories, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
In recent weeks, Trump has sat down with Gingrich, Mark
Meadows (his former chief of staff and a former Republican congressman), and
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) at Mar-a-Lago to begin crafting a document to
spearhead 2022 Republican victories just as the Contract with America helped
propel Republicans to majorities in both the U.S. House of Representatives and
the U.S. Senate, Politico reported.
Gingrich told Politico that the 2022
“Contract with America” will not likely debut soon, but he did list many
potential priorities for the document.
“It should be positive,” Gingrich said. “School choice,
teaching American history for real, abolishing the ‘1619 Project,’ eliminating
critical race theory and what the Texas legislature is doing. We should say,
‘Bring it on.'”
Political observers credited the original “Contract with
America” with propelling the GOP to historic election victories in 1994. Before
that election, Democrats had firm majorities in the House (256 Democrats to 176
Republicans) and Senate (57 Democrats to 43 Republicans). After that election,
Republicans dominated the House (230 Republicans to 197 Democrats) and Senate
(53 Republicans to 47 Democrats). The 1994 midterms gave Republicans a whopping
52 seats in the House and 9 seats in the Senate.
Republicans have used the “Contract with America” in
other elections since. In 2010, the so-called Republican “Young Guns,” led by
Reps. Eric Cantor (R-Va.), Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), and Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.),
introduced an updated Contract with America before the 2010 Republican wave.
Graham, who signed the contract in his 1994 House race, has advocated for
Republicans to adopt contract-style declarations to unify the party.
Trump’s decision to return to the 1994 playbook will
likely help the GOP gear up for key races in 2022. President Joe Biden has already
presided over growing inflation, persistent unemployment, high gas prices, a
historic border crisis, and war in the Middle East, much of which has been his
own doing. The 2020 census will also give
Republicans a slight edge in the 2022 midterms.
If the GOP wins big next year in an echo of 1994, Biden seems unlikely to follow Bill Clinton’s lead by moving to the center and working with the Republican Congress. Expect an Obama-style retrenchment and more “pen-and-phone” tactics.
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Senior editor of PJ Media, Tyler O'Neil is an author and conservative commentator. He has written for numerous publications, including The Christian Post, National Review, The Washington Free Beacon, The Daily Signal, AEI's Values & Capitalism, and the Colson Center's Breakpoint. He enjoys Indian food, board games, and talking ceaselessly about politics, religion, and culture. He has appeared on Fox News' "Tucker Carlson Tonight." He is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
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greatest Witch Hunt in American history. It began the day I came down the
escalator in Trump Tower, and it’s never stopped. They wasted two years and $48
million in taxpayer dollars on Mueller and Russia Russia Russia, Impeachment
Hoax #1, Impeachment Hoax #2, and it continues to this day, with illegally
leaked confidential information.
No other President in history has had to put up with what I have had to, and on
top of all that, I have done a great job for our Country, whether it’s taxes,
regulations, our Military, Veterans, Space Force, our Borders, speedy creation
of a great vaccine (said to be a miracle!), and protecting the Second
Amendment.
This is purely political, and an affront to the almost 75 million voters who supported
me in the Presidential Election, and it’s being driven by highly partisan
Democrat prosecutors.
New York City and State are suffering the highest crime rates in their history,
and instead of going after murderers, drug dealers, human traffickers, and
others, they come after Donald Trump.
Interesting that today a poll came out indicating I’m far in the lead for the
Republican Presidential Primary and the General Election in 2024.
Our Country is broken, our elections are rigged, corrupt, and stolen, our
prosecutors are politicized, and I will just have to keep on fighting like I
have been for the last five years!
