The United States is "in the most dangerous moment since World War II," House Speaker Mike Johnson told NBC News' "Meet the Press" on Sunday, blaming the situation on the weakness that President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris have demonstrated throughout their administration.
The Louisiana Republican said, "Everywhere I go ... — and I go to blue states, and blue districts, swing districts — the No. 1 concern on everybody's mind is the cost of living. Right after that is the wide open border that the 'border czar,' Kamala Harris, enabled and put together. All the catastrophe that comes from that."
Johnson continued that people across the United States are "worried about the weakness on the world stage that Biden and Harris have projected, which has gotten us into the most dangerous situation since World War II."
"That's what matters to people. That's why [former President Donald] Trump is surging in the polls, and that's why we are going to win this."
Johnson said Trump has "the strength that we need in a time like this."
"We're in the most dangerous moment since World War II. You have to have strength. You have to have a steady hand.
"You have to have a commander in chief that our allies respect and our enemies fear. They do not fear Kamala Harris. They do fear Donald Trump. That's what people are going to vote on," he said.
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