Mike Johnson sets GOP up for big fall as he lives in 'alternative reality': conservative

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is not doing Republicans any favors by insisting the party’s midterm chances look good, conservative columnist Matt Lewis argued in a column for the Washington Sun.Lewis wrote that Johnson is either trying to keep spirits up or living in an “alternative reality.” He drew a parallel to 2012, when many conservatives went into Election Day believing Mitt Romney would defeat President Barack Obama.While many Republicans seem to have "grudgingly accepted the likelihood of a blue wave," Lewis noted, some prominent voices are loudly proclaiming the opposite. In a speech in North Carolina last week, per Lewis, Johnson declared, “The polls are wrong.” Pollsters, Johnson said, “are admitting over the last few weeks that they have been under-sampling Republicans [and] they are over-sampling Democrats … because Republicans don’t trust pollsters anymore.”Johnson made similar remarks at an Oct. 13 event in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he said,...