"The last cycle we ran and won in districts all over the country by highlighting exactly the policies that these guys, now with the stroke of a pen, have followed through on," Rep. Tom Emmer stated in an interview, as he pointed to many executive orders signed by Biden in the week since the president’s inauguration.
Looking back to the 2020 elections, when House Republicans challenged expectations and flipped around a dozen Democratic-held positions, which significantly narrowed the Democrats’ majority in the chamber, the four-term GOP congressman from Minnesota emphasized that "the polling we did last cycle showed us in places like Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, just how devastating this job-killing, anti-energy agenda is. That's why we won."
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Emmer, who’s staying at the helm of the NRCC – which is the House Republican reelection arm – for the 2022 election cycle, announced Wednesday that "if we look at just what he [Biden] did in the first few days with his pen, he killed the Keystone XL Pipeline, which with it goes the 11,000 American jobs."
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Biden – as he signed executive actions on Wednesday to remove federal support for oil and other fossil fuels, stop new oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters, and acting to double renewable energy production from wind by 2030 – emphasized the jobs theme.
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"Today is climate day at the White House, which means today is jobs day at the White House," Biden stated before signing the executive actions.
"In my view, we've already waited too long to deal with this climate crisis and we can't wait any longer. It's time to act," Biden announced Wednesday, as he followed through on a campaign pledge. "Just like we need a unified national response to COVID-19, we desperately need a unified national response to the climate crisis, because there is a climate crisis."
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Yet Emmer, expecting for the 2022 midterms and the six Democratic-held seats he wants to flip to recapture the House majority for the first time since 2018, underlined that the Biden administration has "already started giving us the information that we need."
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He explained that the NRCC’s job is to get to voters in "places where this is incredibly important that they understand what the choice is."
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Emmer noted six principles that he explained are necessary to retaking the House majority in next year’s elections.
"First and foremost, hold House Democrats accountable for their votes and what they do," Emmer said. "We use simply their actions and their words."
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