Banks Memo: GOP Must Embrace Being ‘Party of the Working Class’ to Take Back House in Midterms “Opposition to illegal immigration and increased legal immigration remains popular among both working-class Americans and the electorate at large” Banks stated. Republican Representative Jim Banks from Indiana sent House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) a memo urging House Republicans to “embrace policies supported by working-class voters if they intend to succeed in flipping the House in the 2022 midterm elections.” Banks provided a copy of the memo to Breitbart News. The memo begins, “President Trump gave the Republican Party a political gift: we are now the party supported by most working-class voters. The question is whether Republicans reject that gift or unwrap it and permanently become the Party of the Working Class.”