Mike Johnson: “They are openly running as Marxist communists for Congress.”

“Let me tell you something. The danger that we have right now is that the energy, the excitement, the grassroots operation, the money is on the side of the insurgent left. And They are openly running as Marxist communists for Congress. When Ronald Reagan was in this very building, you know, decades ago, he talked about the threat of communism. He was referencing something happening as a threat overseas.” (03:18–03:23)

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