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Johnson remains optimistic GOP will win both chambers of Congress
From CNN’s Ali Main in Freeland, Michigan
House Speaker Mike Johnson vowed Saturday to take up an “aggressive” agenda if he keeps the speaker’s gavel and expressed optimism that Republicans are poised to win the White House and both chambers of Congress.

“We can and we will win. And let me tell you why. Three things, we have the right environment, we have the right answers, and we have the right candidates,” the Louisiana Republican said while campaigning for GOP candidates in Freeland, Michigan.

Johnson, who is on a tour across the country, said he’s visiting 65 cities in 24 states this month, including blue states and swing districts.

Johnson acknowledged it would be a “close election,” but said he didn’t think polls were “fully registering what we’re experiencing and seeing,” predicting a “demographic shift” in the electorate.

He vowed a “very aggressive first 100 days agenda” if Trump is elected, adding, “You’re going to have the Senate Republicans working hand in hand with the House Republicans.”

Johnson, as well several members of the House GOP conference, were in Michigan on Saturday campaigning for House candidates Tom Barrett and Paul Junge, who Republicans see as top contenders to flip seats being vacated by Democratic incumbents.

Johnson also told the Michigan voters he asked his staff to leave “gifts” for Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, who is due to land later today at the same airport where the speaker held his event.

The items poked at Walz’s tendency to misspeak, including a “knucklehead” pillow, a water gun (“that he can actually load”), Sen. JD Vance’s memoir, a calendar, a map (so he can “find the southern border”) and a US flag (to “remind him what country he’s in”).