The country's direction will "go backwards" if Democrats regain control of the House of Representatives this fall in the 2018 midterm elections, former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said in an interview airing Sunday.
“The question is, do we continue to have a strong vibrant economy that is pro-business, pro-job growth, or do we go backwards and elect a Speaker [Nancy] Pelosi again?" Lewandowski told radio talk show host John Catsimatidis on "The Cat's Roundtable" on New York's AM 970, adding that he wants to bring back tax cuts and implement more taxes.
Democrats must win 23 seats this fall to regain control of the House, and a recent Quinnipiac University poll shows the party has a 12-point lead in the generic House ballot.
“What is at stake in that midterm is the direction of the country,” Lewandowski said.
He pointed out that Trump promised economic growth of four percent or even higher, nothing that this past week that was achieved, marking the highest economic growth the nation has seen in forty years.
"Just last week, [President] Donald Trump was in Illinois opening a new steel plant, the first steel plant opened in 30 years in this country," Lewandowski said. "Manufacturing is coming back and that's why that GDP number of 4.1 percent is so important."
Unemployment numbers are also at record lows, said Lewandowski.
"We now see an economic engine that is just turning," he said. "You remember, China [would] put up numbers at 7 or 8 percent growth. We would put up one. We have completely changed that model."
But Pelosi believes, "like the socialists who are winning in New York, everyone should have free healthcare; everyone should have free education," said Lewandowski, making a likely reference to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Democratic Socialist who defeated 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in New York's Democratic primary in June.
He also said if Democrats win the fall election, they will move to impeach Trump and stop his agenda, and "we will move our country backwards."
Lewandowski also defended Trump's recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who on Friday invited the president to Moscow for another conference.
"There is nothing wrong with world leaders having conversations," said Lewandowski.
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