Republicans have their eyes set on winning more seats in this year’s election, and one former governor thinks they have a good shot at doing just that.
“If they don’t screw it up, they’ll take both the House and the Senate this year,” said former Governor Mike Huckabee (R-Arkansas) on The Todd Starnes Show. “They’ll pick up a few more governor seats – and they will have huge gains at the local level, state legislature, school board, county commission and city council. So, we are in for a banner year.”
According to Huckabee, “the only thing that could really mess things up for the Republicans” would be that would be that they would not know how to manage a victory. “That would be a problem,” he added.
One thing that may cause a problem between Republicans is Donald Trump. While the former president is still well-liked in many circles, Huckabee acknowledges that some office holders and candidates want to distance themselves from Trump because of his personality and tweets.
“There needs to be a real clear understanding that it’s okay to disagree with Donald Trump’s personality – but embrace his policies, for heaven’s sakes,” advised Huckabee, a presidential candidate in 2008 and 2016. “They were exactly what the country needed.”
And the results were “just stellar,” exclaimed the former Arkansas governor.
“I wish people would realize that there’s no benefit in making Donald Trump the object of division within the Republican Party because, quite frankly, most Republicans still support him [and] would support him again if he ran,” said Huckabee. “And the fact is that even those who don’t like his personality and didn’t appreciate his tweets would at least accept the fact that what he got done in a short, four-year period was simply staggeringly good.”
A rotten root
One of Trump’s most successful and popular policies was his handling of the border crisis and illegal immigration – an approach that Biden effectively gutted within hours of moving into the Oval Office. In fact, even before Biden took office on January 20, immigration policy watchers were anticipating he would launch into a full-scale dismantling of Trump’s border policy, which had gone a long way toward curbing illegal immigration.
Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), tells AFN that Biden’s handling of the immigration issue in 2021 was probably even worse than he expected. In fact, he writes that Biden’s border policy may be 2021’s biggest failure.
“… We knew there was going to be a surge at the border because essentially Biden invited illegal immigrants to come with the assurance that most of them would be let go,” Krikorian explains. “But the numbers have really been quite remarkable: almost 1.7 million arrests in fiscal year 2021 at the southern border. That’s the highest number ever recorded.”
And while he suggests that everything that happened along the border over the past year was predictable, “the degree of it – how bad it was – is something that I was kind of surprised by,” admits the CIS spokesman.
According to Krikorian, the Biden administration doesn’t really think the American people have the right to keep anyone out. Their philosophy, he says, is “if you come to the border, we are morally obligated to let you in – and if you’re already here, we are morally obligated to let you stay.”
And that, he concludes, is the “root cause” that must be addressed – otherwise, little will change.
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Copyright American Family News. Reprinted with permission.
STILL NEEDED—MORE THAN EVER !!!!!
wish I could give you 47 Kajillion stars.. SOT
How about all the stars in the universe?
Biden’s action on the border satiated every one of Saul Alinsky’s 8 Rules for Radicals. He attacked our healthcare system by flooding the country with COVID unvetted people, raised the poverty level by allowing almost a million uneducated people of poverty who bring nothing to the American table but an appetite. By flooding the already over-crowded class rooms with illegal aliens that cannot speak English or communicate with English speaking American children he raised the anxiety level of our children as much as the COVID. The amount of debt thrown at the American taxpayer to fix the already over-burdened infrastructures, healthcare system, hospital beds, sewers, water, electricity, welfare, and support of all these foreign incoming dependents only establishes the religion of God government. They covered Alinksy’s gun Control already on the border with Obama Fast and Furious. Their idea of a Police State is that everyone is his own policeman, in a modern version of the Wild, Wild West.
AND that’s the kicker.. We have seen many times, the republicans (more the rinos)< SNATCH Defeat, from the jaws of victory.
You know, I’m getting sick and tired of hearing about what a boor Trump was.
“He was so mean.” “He was so course.”
He talked in plain language, so you could tell exactly what he was saying.
“He was so mean…”
He never attacked anyone who didn’t attack him first. Period.
And he was being attacked from multiple fronts since he came down the escalator.
Does anyone remember the thin skin of Obama? He was so used to the overwhelming butt kissing that when anyone said anything negative about him, he’d have a hissy fit and the media would circle the wagons and deflect deflect deflect.
Trump got things done. And people enjoyed his rallies because he was speaking plainly and had an actual sense of humor.
This whole “He wrote mean tweets…” BS is BS. And BS is BS.
I will no longer indulge the mince meat minds who were so offended by him, regardless of sides.
Ohhh… come on now … mxquist… don’t you know “you have right to NOT be offended”. President Trumps like a plumber you hire that shows his butt crack… and does a great job fixing the problem cheaper than estimated… you don’t wanna see it… but everyone’s better off in the end.
TRUMP America’s rightful President.
Make America Great Again !!
The democrats seem to think the same way with felons. When convicted felons come to their prison door a democrat opens it and let’s them enter society. Here’s wishing every illegal goes to the homes if every democrat and rino politician and demands to be let on it else!