U.S. Rep. Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, at the RNC in Milwaukee today said Republicans are in a good spot to secure House seats in play, but added “we can’t take our foot off the gas.”
Fitzgerald told Wisconsinites at today’s delegation breakfast there’s been “a shift in Wisconsin like we’ve never seen before” and said Republicans have also performed well in California and New York.
“I know we can’t take our foot off the gas, people are very concerned about that,” Fitzgerald said. “But if you keep the House, you’re going to get the Senate, and you’re going to get the White House. And President Trump is going to do a wonderful job, I think, in driving an agenda that he’s going to lay out tonight that both the House and the Senate can embrace. So we’re in a very exciting time.”
State GOP Chair Brian Schimming gave a similar warning amid positive polling and Dems pressing Joe Biden to step out of the race, saying “their crisis is not our win.”
Biden has faced growing calls from within his party to pass the mantle to another Dem. And a new Emerson Poll shows Trump had an advantage in all seven swing states the firm has been regularly polling, including a 5-point edge in Wisconsin.
Schimming said he doesn’t want to hear anyone saying that “they’re done, we’re going to win.”
“Personally, if I hear somebody keep saying that, there’s a hospital called Froedtert over here, and we’re going to go over there, we’re going to take a trip over there to get my foot out of your backside,” Schimming said.
Schimming said Republicans can’t afford to take that attitude.
“The fact of the matter is people are looking at all these stories about Joe Biden and how screwed up the Democrats are and assuming that’s advantage Republicans. It’s not,” he said.
RNC Host Committee Chair and former RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, along with U.S. Rep. Wesley Hunt, R-Texas, also spoke at the breakfast.
Priebus said Wisconsin is home to the two most sophisticated parties in the country.
“We’re not running against idiots that don’t know what they’re doing,” Priebus said.
He urged delegates to use data for specific funding proposals to identify voters instead of organizing fundraising events around candidates, or “the candidate crazy nonsense.”
“The party is a party that has to be obsessed with this process and get excited about what margins can do in winning elections. Forty thousand people will decide this election in three states—that’s it,” Priebus said.
Hunt, a U.S. Army veteran and West Point graduate, told delegates his great, great grandfather was born at Rosedown Plantation in Saint Francisville, Louisiana.
“One of his great, great, grandchildren, me, stands before you today as a Republican from the great state of Texas. In a red district that President Trump would have won by 25 points I won by almost 30 points in a white-majority district in a Houston suburb,” Hunt said. “The only nation in the entire world that can see that kind of progress in a very truncated period of time is this one.”
Hunt said he doesn’t see race, religion, color or creed, adding “the only thing I see is red, white and blue.”
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