\n Kelly Presnell
\n <\/a><\/p>\n\u201cI\u2019m calling on Scott Bessent to meet with these workers, look them in the eye, and answer for the policies that put them out of work,\u201d the Arizona Democrat wrote on social media.<\/p>\n
Johnson also echoed President Donald Trump\u2019s recent shift to anti-communist messaging in a short speech in support of Ciscomani. The president has increased that rhetoric in recent weeks after several victories of Democratic Socialist-aligned candidates in the 2026 primary elections, Reuters reports.<\/p>\n
Johnson said voters need to \u201ckeep the grown-ups in charge,\u201d by voting for Republicans like Ciscomani.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey\u2019ve got to make a decision that they want to continue with common sense, growth and opportunity, or do we want to go down this dark, dangerous, deadly road of communism?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n
Bessent called DSA-aligned candidates \u201cthe Communist Working Party.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ciscomani\u2019s opponent Mendoza is not affiliated with the Democratic Socialists of America, said Kyle McCarthy, a spokesperson for her campaign.<\/p>\n
\u201cJoAnna is running for Congress to lower the cost of gas, groceries, and health care for working families and to bring servant leadership to DC for all Southern Arizonans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaker of the U.S. House Mike Johnson takes a question from the media as Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[143],"tags":[6353,23198,6274,12001,12,81314,478,51,3665,3580,40575,17],"class_list":["post-179749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mike-johnson","tag-arizona","tag-communism","tag-cost","tag-democratic-party-united-states","tag-donald-trump","tag-juan-ciscomani","tag-mike-johnson","tag-politics","tag-politics-of-the-united-states","tag-scott-bessent","tag-tax-cut","tag-united-states"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@people\/117047407924368039","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/people\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}