American voters will "defy history" next month and “reward” Republicans for a strong economy, Rep. Steven Stivers, R-Ohio, chairman head of the National Republican Congressional Committee, predicted Sunday.
In comments on “Fox News Sunday,” Stivers said he was confident the economy would trump historic trends that usually cost the party in power seats in Congress in midterm elections.
"We've defied history already,” Stivers said. “We won eight eight out of nine special elections. We actually have an economy where we have 4 percent economic growth, unemployment at 3.7 percent… the highest consumer confidence we've ever had and was lifted up all subgroups, including record low unemployment among African-Americans.”
“I think people will reward us for what we've done,” he said.
According to Stivers, the elections next month will be about "results versus dysfunction” and Democratic candidates who are "outside the mainstream.”
“I think this election is about … our economic success,” he said, adding there’s “More to do on infrastructure, more to do on health care cost.”
“But the dysfunction of the other side,” including in health care, “kick 179 million people off their insurance and bankrupt medicare on Day One,” he said. “They have an agenda that's outside the mainstream.”
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