Forget the Polls – This Is the Real Story of American Unity.
Most people think America is split right down the middle. Turn on the news and it looks like a coin flip every single time.
But here's something that might surprise you. It's not true.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich just laid out the real story, and it's one every Nevadan should hear.
His team has spent eight years polling and talking to regular Americans about the issues that matter most.
What they found isn't a 50-50 country. It's a country that agrees, big time, on issue after issue.
Take a look at some of these numbers.
Eighty-three percent want local police to hold illegal immigrants and hand them over to federal agents for deportation.
Seventy-nine percent want proof of citizenship before you can vote.
Seventy-seven percent think a government-issued photo ID to vote is just common sense.
And seventy-nine percent believe parents should have the final say in their kids' education.
These aren't narrow wins. These are landslides. And they line up with exactly what I've been fighting for right here in Nevada.
I've knocked on a lot of doors in Senate District 8. I've talked to teachers, small business owners, retirees, and young families.
Nobody I meet wants chaos at the border. Nobody wants to be told the government knows better than they do about which car to drive or which doctor to see.
And almost everybody, Republican, Democrat, or independent, thinks you should have to prove who you are before you cast a ballot.
That's the whole point of Gingrich's argument.
He says Washington and the media stay stuck on the small stuff, the daily arguments that go nowhere, while the deeper current runs the other way.
He compares it to old Shakespeare lines about a “tide in the affairs of men.” Miss that tide, he warns, and you get stuck in the shallows.
Nevada doesn't have to get stuck. We can catch this wave.
Our own Secretary of State's office has dragged its feet on basic voter roll cleanup that most Nevadans support without blinking.
That's not a partisan position. That's a common sense one.
Gingrich's numbers prove it. When people actually get asked, not polled with tricky questions but asked plainly, they want elections that work and rules that are fair for everyone.
Critics will say this data is cherry picked or that polls can be spun any way you like. Fair point, no poll is perfect.
But when the numbers run 70, 80, even 90 percent across issue after issue, from Alzheimer's drug pricing to banning congressional stock trading, that's not a fluke. That's a pattern.
If elected to the State Senate, I'm going to govern like those numbers matter.
That means pushing for real voter ID requirements in Nevada. It means demanding our elections officials actually cooperate with voter roll accuracy instead of fighting it.
It means standing up for parents who want a say in their kids' classrooms, and for taxpayers who are tired of government waste.
Gingrich calls this a Jeffersonian moment, a chance to build a governing majority that lasts for a generation, not just win a single news cycle.
I call it common sense. Nevada families already agree on the big stuff. It's time our government caught up.
The tide is coming in. Nevada shouldn't be the state that missed it.
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