Jim Banks announces workingclassgop.com and Discusses the future of the GOP on Prime Time

Jim Banks announces the launch of the Working Class GOP website and lays out the future of the GOP on Prime Time with Pete Hegseth. They discuss the strengths of both the Trump-era GOP and Reagan-era GOP and highlight what it will take for the Republican Party to cement its new role as the working party class, outlined in Jim’s memo to Speaker McCarthy.

Rep. Jim Banks Tells It Like It Is: Liz Cheney is a ‘Distraction’

Rep. Jim Banks Tells It Like It Is: Liz Cheney is a ‘Distraction’

Again, kudos to Rep. Banks for how he stuck to how “I’ve called on Liz Cheney to rejoin the Republican team and help us go out and win the majority in the midterm election. That’s where my frustration has bubbled up.” He also referenced the memo he wrote to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on how to keep Trump voters in the party, which Rep. Cheney was the only Republican leader to attack. “If she doesn’t get that, that that’s an important part of the formula to win the majority in the midterm election, to win the White House back in 2024, she doesn’t belong in a leadership position.”

You could say that Rep. Banks shouted it louder for the people in the back, if not at least Chris Wallace, hopefully. The congressman has a lot of patience, but that’s a good thing. People need to hear his message.

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NPR: Top Republicans Work To Rebrand GOP As Party Of Working Class

NPR: Top Republicans Work To Rebrand GOP As Party Of Working Class

A growing number of working-class voters were drawn to Donald Trump’s Republican Party, and now top Republicans are searching for ways to keep those voters in the fold without Trump on the ballot.

“All of the statistics and polling coming out of the 2020 election show that Donald Trump did better with those voters across the board than any Republican has in my lifetime since Ronald Reagan,” Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., told NPR. “And if Republicans want to be successful as a party, win the majority in 2022, win back the White House in 2024, I think we have to learn lessons that Donald Trump taught us and how to appeal to these voters.”

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Axios: House GOP memo: Embrace of Trump agenda is only option for comeback

Axios: House GOP memo: Embrace of Trump agenda is only option for comeback

Banks argues in the memo that “both parties are undergoing coalitional transformations” and that Republicans shouldn’t fight the trend of corporate donors pulling back from the GOP.

“Our electoral success in the 2022 midterm election will be determined by our willingness to embrace our new coalition,” the memo says. “House Republicans can broaden our electorate, increase voter turnout, and take back the House by enthusiastically rebranding and reorienting as the Party of the Working Class.”

“There is an embittered and loud minority in the GOP that finds our new coalition distasteful, but President Trump’s gift didn’t come with a receipt,” he adds.

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Roll Call: Prepare for the anti-corporate summer (and cycle)

Roll Call: Prepare for the anti-corporate summer (and cycle)

As head of the Republican Study Committee, Banks is not a random member from northeast Indiana. He leads this conservative group, with roots that go back nearly 50 years and that was once led by Mike Pence and now includes three-quarters of the House GOP Conference.

“Republicans are pro-business and pro-worker, not pro-corporation,” Banks said in the memo’s “Main Street vs. Wall Street” agenda item, mentioning government restrictions during the pandemic that disproportionately hurt small businesses while larger competitors profited.

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Breitbart: Banks Memo: GOP Must Embrace Being ‘Party of the Working Class’ to Take Back House in Midterms

Breitbart: Banks Memo: GOP Must Embrace Being ‘Party of the Working Class’ to Take Back House in Midterms

A memo from Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) urges that House Republicans must embrace policies supported by working-class voters if they intend to succeed in flipping the House in the 2022 midterm elections.

Banks, who chairs the Republican Study Committee (RSC), details in the memo, dated March 30, key issues affecting the working class, including immigration, trade, “anti-wokeness,” “Main Street vs Wall Street,” and big tech, and provides a set of action items for his Republican colleagues as they set their sights on next year’s races.

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WSJ: GOP’s Blue-Collar Agenda

WSJ: GOP’s Blue-Collar Agenda

Mr. Banks, who leads a 154-member caucus of conservatives called the Republican Study Committee, recently gave House GOP leaders a memo arguing that the party can retake the House majority ‘’by enthusiastically rebranding and reorienting as the Party of the Working Class.’’

Mr. Banks’s recommendations included continuing Mr. Trump’s “hard line’’ on both legal and illegal immigration, challenging China’s trade practices and focusing on the impact on jobs from business restrictions related to the coronavirus. “Donald Trump gave us a road map, and that road map is where it begins,” Mr. Banks said in an interview. ”That’s the point of my memo.’’

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