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00:02:27.000Welcome to this episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:02:30.000We are thrilled to be joined today by probably one of the sharpest and most important minds on the planet, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.
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00:02:49.000Welcome back to the Charlie Kirk Show, Mr. Speaker.
00:02:51.000Charlie, it's always good to be with you.
00:02:54.000And frankly, if I can give that kind of a flattering introduction, you can have me anytime.
00:02:59.000And so can you just kick us off by giving us your analysis of what happened a couple weeks ago on Election Day?
00:03:09.000I'm under the impression and the opinion, as is many other people, that this was a red wave that was basically interrupted by four cities that decided to stop counting and with some immense irregularities.
00:03:23.000Republicans and President Trump did incredibly well.
00:03:29.000Well, look, I think if you separate the Trump situation, which was so heavily motivated by absolute hatred by the news media, the internet companies, et cetera, and you look at the rest of the election, it was a substantial Republican victory.
00:03:49.000I think people like Charlie Cook who study elections are shocked by how well Kevin McCarthy and the House Republicans have done.
00:03:58.000The Republicans gained seats in the state House and state Senate.
00:04:02.000They picked up a governorship in the U.S. Senate in a very difficult environment in terms of who was up.
00:04:09.000We had an amazing number of victories, including Olympia Snow, I mean Susan Collins, who in Maine ran, I think, 15 points ahead of Trump to get reelected.
00:04:22.000And the truth is, other than the two Georgia Senate seats, we're on the way to a very good night.
00:04:30.000And if we win, either one of the two, Georgia seats will be a majority, and McConnell will still be in charge of the Senate.
00:04:38.000Pelosi has what may be the narrowest margin since 1919.
00:04:46.000And it's going to be almost impossible for her to effectively hold the House together.
00:04:51.000And the Democrats, I'm writing a newsletter at Gingrich 360, pointing out that in 92, Bill Clinton won, and in 94, we elected the first House majority in 40 years, picking up 53 seats.
00:05:09.000And in 2010, John Boehner led a campaign called Where are the Jobs?
00:05:15.000He picked up 63 seats, 10 more than I did.
00:05:18.000And my question for the House Democrats is going to be: so how many seats do you think you'll lose in 2022?
00:05:26.000Will it be a Gingrich-size wave or a Boehner-size wave?
00:05:30.000But in any case, it's extraordinarily likely that this is the last term for the Democratic majority for the near future.
00:05:39.000Then you get to the presidential campaign.
00:05:41.000By the way, the other good news was that on referendums, voters around the country, even in California, were turning down left-wing ideas.
00:05:50.000So every time you look below the presidency, we were doing fine.
00:05:55.000And it raises real questions about the presidential results because it's a little hard to imagine us picking up House seats, state legislative seats, governorships, and somehow having Biden run that far ahead of his ticket, particularly given Biden's campaign.
00:06:12.000I think that it is, first of all, I stipulate the Democrats in the near future are always going to have a majority of the popular vote because we don't really compete in New York, Illinois, and California.
00:06:25.000So they come out of those states with huge margins.
00:06:28.000But everywhere else, we're very competitive.
00:06:30.000And I think that it's, in my mind, and we're sorry, we're in the middle of the count right now in Georgia, but in my mind, Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan are all contested states.
00:06:47.000And I think it's very hard for me to believe that any of them is legal.
00:06:53.000Nevada, the state legislature and the governor, who are Democrats, they just basically rewrote the election law in the spring to make it legal to do everything illegal.
00:07:17.000So in effect, you have a legally corrupt state in which the Democrats have passed laws that are just remarkably corrupt.
00:07:26.000In Georgia, for reasons that are beyond my comprehension, the Republican Secretary of State agreed to a negotiated agreement with Stacey Abrams.
00:07:36.000You can't challenge the absentee votes.
00:07:40.000So there were a million 260,000 absentee ballots.
00:07:45.000In 2018, with a much smaller number, 3.5% were thrown out.
00:07:55.000So, they want us to believe that there were 10 times as many ballots thrown out on a smaller vote.
00:08:02.000You would think the opposite would be true.
00:08:03.000If you had a giant vote, there were probably more, not fewer.
00:08:07.000And technically, under the agreement that the Secretary of State signed, they can't go out and check any addresses.
00:08:15.000I mean, the whole thing is so crazy that I've called on the state legislature to take it over because it was a change of state law without the approval of the state legislature.
00:08:27.000And if they go back and count those ballots, my guess is it's worth 40,000 votes, just that one thing.
00:08:34.000So, anyhow, that's a sweeping overview of kind of where we are.
00:08:43.000So, this was a Republican Secretary of State who basically surrendered to the non-elected Stacey Abrams, just gave her whatever she wanted, who was funded by tech billionaires and Hollywood liberals who were putting tons of money behind Stacey Abrams.
00:09:00.000Why would a Republican Secretary of State do this in Georgia?
00:09:09.000Well, let me say, first of all, I think Stacy, to her credit, had raised over $40 million just for the purpose of reshaping the electorate.
00:09:18.000And she had brought in a very tough Washington law firm that knew what it was doing.
00:09:25.000The Secretary of State, you know, the way I would put it simple: Republicans play badminton and Democrats play pro-football.
00:09:34.000Now, you put a badminton team out on the field and a pro-football team out in the field.
00:09:40.000And so, you have these nice, well-meaning people who, you know, may have a good time at the country club on Sunday lunch, but they don't have a clue of the war they're in.
00:09:49.000On the other side, you have people like Stacey, who, as a competitor, you have to respect.
00:09:59.000And she took these guys, both the governor and the Secretary of State, got taken to the cleaners.
00:10:05.000And I think the only hope we have in Georgia is for the legislature to stand up as under the Constitution, it very specifically says the election of the electors is a function of the legislature, not the governor, not Secretary of State, not the courts.
00:10:21.000And so the Georgia legislature, which is Republican, could intervene, demand a recount, and then let the Democrats sue to block us from checking on phony ballots.
00:10:32.000Let's let the whole country see how determined they are to protect the right of people who are illegal to vote.
00:10:39.000It's the worst possible combination because you had more absentee ballots than ever before and a lower rate of rejection.
00:10:45.000So it was exponentially worse than it was.
00:10:49.000One of the things I'm checking on now, so I can't say this with certainty, but in the spring and summer, the Secretary of State said there were at least 1,000 people who double voted.
00:10:59.000That is, they got an absentee ballot, voted it, and showed up at the polls.
00:11:05.000And I have not seen any reference to double voting because, of course, if you can't check the absentee ballot, then how do you know whether or not the person double voted?
00:11:15.000And so, but there were a thousand this summer in the primaries.
00:11:20.000So I think, again, every time you turn around, now they did find a substantial number of votes in Floyd County that had not even been reported, which is a very, very Republican county, probably nets 800 or more for Trump and shrinking Biden's majority.
00:11:38.000But you see the same, by the way, it's worse in Philadelphia.
00:11:42.000Philadelphia may be the most corrupt political city in the United States.
00:11:46.000And it's worse in Nevada, where they literally have outlawed any legality.
00:11:54.000I may write a book about this because some of that now that we're digging into it, some of these stories are so unbelievably abusive of common sense and decency that they need to, the country needs to realize how badly we need election reform.
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00:14:04.000Even Republicans were voting for Obama.
00:14:06.000It is very hard for me to believe that with the incredible movement that Obama had in 2008, that Joe Biden did better than Barack Obama in Dane County, Wisconsin, with the University of Wisconsin-Madison closed.
00:14:20.000Not only did he do better, he had 60,000 more votes and even adjusted for population increases.
00:14:27.000He did about 10% better per the current population than Barack Obama did at his highest point.
00:14:33.000It's hard for me to be able to look at this just objectively and think that there is not something nefarious going on.
00:14:41.000A lot of people say that we should not talk about voter fraud or talk about the cutting of the corners by the Democrats.
00:14:49.000What do you think the proper approach for those of us that want to see this remedied?
00:14:53.000What do you think the proper approach is?
00:14:56.000Well, look, I think, and I just wrote a newsletter about this the other day.
00:15:01.000If you really believe, as our Declaration of Independence says, that you've been endowed by your creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, all of that's based on the rule of law.
00:15:16.000And Lincoln, in particular, was extraordinarily eloquent throughout the Civil War in describing the importance of the rule of law.
00:15:26.000So the rule of law starts with your sacred right to vote because you're picking the people to whom you're going to loan power.
00:15:36.000And if your vote is canceled by an illegal vote, or if your vote is drowned by 50 illegal votes, we just took away your most fundamental safeguard as an American.
00:15:51.000My view is that this election is so clearly, for the first time, you've had the intensity of a presidential spotlight on corruption, which we used to tolerate, which got much bigger because I believe the left knew they couldn't beat Trump in a fair fight.
00:16:10.000And they were so desperate to beat him.
00:16:14.000They hated him so deeply that I think they spent several years laying the framework for just plain breaking the law.
00:16:22.000So I think whatever you think about Trump, as Americans, we have an obligation to learn what happened.
00:16:29.000And we have an obligation, I think, to change the laws.
00:16:32.000I mean, Georgia is going to have to go back in and fundamentally rewrite the law.
00:16:36.000And the principles ought to be simple.
00:16:38.000Every person gets to cast a legal ballot.
00:16:48.000Nobody who's illegal of any kind, including dead people, should be allowed to vote.
00:16:53.000And you shouldn't have ballot harvesting.
00:16:55.000When I look at, for example, three times as many 90-year-olds voted in Wisconsin as two years ago, more than ever in history.
00:17:04.000And I start thinking about unions like the Service Employees International Union, which have unionized a large number of nursing homes.
00:17:14.000And so you have a union worker come by to pick up a ballot for a senior citizen.
00:17:19.000Well, guess what advice they're going to get when they vote?
00:17:23.000Or if they're frankly not capable of knowing what's going on, but they sign their name, then the union member is going to vote for them.
00:17:31.000And I think that is just as illegal as anything else.
00:17:35.000So I think we're at a real crossroads in reclaiming our rights as Americans and making sure that government isn't literally stolen from us.
00:17:44.000And in Pennsylvania, they had a 1,774% voter registration increase for people over 90 years old in the midst of a pandemic.
00:17:54.000So you have a raging pandemic and out of nowhere, people 90 plus years old decide to go register to vote at a rate that is so dramatic, it's a 1,774% increase.
00:18:07.000And it's something where the New York Times actually wrote an article back in 2012.
00:18:11.000They call it granny farming, where you intercept the ballots to and from.
00:18:16.000You go to, unfortunately, there's dementia units.
00:18:19.000There are people that are not all there cognitively.
00:18:23.000And you have people that prey on them and are able to get the vote that they desire.
00:18:31.000The issue that I find, Mr. Speaker, is that we as Republicans and conservatives, not President Trump, but most people kind of in the bureaucracy of the Republican Party, they refuse to contest on these election issues because it wasn't something that they thought they had to get into and they found it to be too messy.
00:18:51.000It's just like, we'll just discuss ideas and then we'll win.
00:18:54.000But the Democrats are now into the mechanics of politics.
00:18:58.000And now you're starting to see that that's actually how elections are being decided.
00:19:02.000Mr. Speaker, I want to ask you about the future of the Republican Party.
00:19:07.000We don't know how this election will end up being remedied.
00:19:10.000Hopefully the Supreme Court will intercede.
00:19:12.000But I think that President Trump has changed the Republican Party for the better, especially to now become a working person's party.
00:19:19.000He won more non-white voters than any Republican since 1960.
00:19:24.000He won counties in West Texas near El Paso that Republicans haven't won in nearly 100 years.
00:19:30.000How do you think that President Trump has positively impacted the future of the Republican Party?
00:19:35.000Well, I think, first of all, his focus on America and the idea that our policies should be based around American interests, I think has been very healthy and just made a lot of sense to lots of people.
00:19:49.000Second, I think his understanding that the deep state and the giant bureaucracies are inevitably in conflict with the rights of individuals has been very well received.
00:20:00.000Third, I think his understanding that if you cut taxes, cut regulations, and encourage the business climate and small businesses, you create huge numbers of jobs.
00:20:12.000There's a momentum which will sadly, I think, be broken by Biden if he wins.
00:20:18.000But Trump, you know, one of the reasons he's doing better with African Americans and Latinos is simple.
00:20:25.000They had better jobs, they had more jobs, and they had rising incomes.
00:20:29.000And they looked around and said, huh, this is actually working.
00:20:33.000So I think that in that sense, there will probably be a three-way, I'm making this up, but I think it may be right.
00:20:41.000There'll probably be a three-way fight in the Republican Party.
00:20:44.000There will be the old establishment, country club, think tank party.
00:20:51.000This is where the never Trumpers came from.
00:20:53.000There will be a group in the middle that are sort of wishy-washy, not quite sure what they're doing, trying to avoid anybody yelling at them.
00:21:02.000And then there will be probably 60 or 65% of the country of the party, which will be very Trump-like.
00:21:08.000They'll be very committed to, you know, for example, we're going to go into a cycle of shutdowns again because Biden's victory will be interpreted.
00:21:16.000I just saw Fauci saying we might have to give up Christmas.
00:21:21.000You know, I'm frankly enraged that in some states, a casino is an essential, but a church is not.
00:21:30.000And I think you're likely to see a growing anti-government sentiment as we watch these Democratic governors act like idiots and favor their particular ideology.
00:21:41.000And if Biden brings that same spirit to the whole country, I think by March or April, you'll have a get government out of my life wing of the Republican Party, which is really the heart of Trumpism.
00:21:54.000I always have told people, Trump's not essentially a conservative.
00:22:00.000He says that the effect of anti-liberalism is to strengthen conservatism.
00:22:05.000He didn't sit around and read Bill Buckley and read National Review.
00:22:09.000He just got up and said, that stuff's stupid.
00:22:11.000And everybody as a conservative applauded him.
00:22:13.000And it didn't occur to them that he hadn't done all the right reading, which is why you get these never-Trumpers who are offended because they spent a lifetime reading all that stuff.
00:22:23.000And they knew that they knew and he didn't know, but he was effective and they weren't effective and drove him crazy.
00:22:29.000I always loved your framing that you presented of him being as the most successful anti-leftist figure in modern political history.
00:22:38.000And that actually helped Republicans down ballot all across the country and in Senate races because in response to President Trump, the left did not try to normalize their positions or try to become more centrist.
00:22:52.000They just tried to outwoke each other, where they decided to talk more about transgender bathrooms and BLM Incorporated and defunding the police.
00:23:01.000And in complete opposition to what a lot of people thought would happen in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy is on pace to probably be Speaker of the House in 2022.
00:23:11.000And a lot of that is thanks to President Trump and the way that he actually framed the argument.
00:23:19.000And of course, the left and the Democrats decided to basically get rid of all the blue dogs and embrace AOC, Rashida Talib, Elon Omar, and many of those others.
00:23:30.000So I love your framing of the three types of the Republican Party, the country club, Republicans, and the Chamber of Commerce types, the people in the middle, and then the kind of more movement conservatives.
00:23:41.000I think President Trump has really presented and laid the foundation for movement conservatives now to really run the party.
00:23:50.000I've always loved, Mr. Speaker, your pieces where you talk about solutions and things that we should run for and actually not just run against things.
00:23:58.000For Republicans that are now going to be in leadership in the House minority or also the Senate majority, what should we concretely talk about on a policy side on health care, on foreign policy, so that we can actually do what you did in the 1990s and build coalitions that actually impact people's lives?
00:24:21.000We should be for transparency in health care so you can know the price and the quality of anything you're paying for.
00:24:28.000The estimate by Art Laffer, The Economist, was that transparency would probably take 40% out of the cost of health care because you'd have a competitive market and you would know what's worth buying and what's not.
00:24:41.000So that's an example of where we ought to go.
00:24:43.000I think in education, we ought to be on the side of the students and against the teachers' union.
00:24:48.000I mean, this insanity in Fairfax County, Virginia, they're spending $3 billion for a school system that isn't teaching.
00:25:09.000They're not even about normal teachers.
00:25:12.000There's power centers that are desperate to survive.
00:25:16.000We're going to, you know, the woke wing of the Democratic Party won't be able to help itself.
00:25:22.000I just noticed that Biden has appointed as part of the Treasury Transition Team somebody who's a passionate advocate for reparations for African Americans.
00:25:33.000Now, reparations are technically unmanageable.
00:25:37.000You can't possibly define how you would do it.
00:25:40.000Elizabeth Warren's brief life as a Native American ought to remind everyone what this kind of stuff goes to.
00:25:47.000But they just are not going to be able to help themselves.
00:25:49.000They're going to get into issue after issue that is, you know, whether it's the transgender issue or it's allowing males who have become female to compete in sports, wiping out the women who are still women who are competing.
00:26:04.000There'll be a hundred different cultural issues like this.
00:26:08.000And my guess is that they will dive right back in, rejoin the World Health Organization, rejoin the Paris Agreement, et cetera, and deal with China the way China should be dealt with, given how much money that they've given to Biden, Hunter, and the Hunter family.
00:26:24.000So it's going to be very interesting to watch them come to grips with reality.
00:26:30.000And the average American is going to like the Trump formulas.
00:26:33.000You know, our policies ought to be, for example, Trump campaigned to get us out of the Middle East.
00:26:39.000He worked very hard to be very effective with minimum forces and destroyed ISIS, killed the leading Iranian general at no cost to the United States, is now pulling forces out of Iraq and Afghanistan.
00:26:53.000Interesting to see whether Biden turns it around and reinserts for forces and how the country feels.
00:27:00.000And that'll split the Democratic Party.
00:27:03.000So it's going to be a fascinating period.
00:27:07.000I've noticed that a number of the anti-Trump people, Republicans, are now writing and making as much noise as they can.
00:27:15.000It'll be interesting to watch when they realize they have no natural home.
00:27:21.000They're not ideologically acceptable to the left, and they're no longer personally acceptable to the right.
00:27:26.000And I think that that will be a very interesting reckoning over the next three or four years.
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00:28:52.000The American people find no home in the kind of country club think tank class that just endlessly writes bad things about President Trump.
00:29:00.000Normal people want nothing to do with that.
00:29:02.000In fact, they don't even know who they are.
00:29:04.000And so, Mr. Speaker, I want you to help build this out further because it's a really interesting kind of development in the political landscape.
00:29:13.000In a unique turn of events, the Republican Party and conservatives, we are now actually fighting for traditional small L liberal values, free speech, for example.
00:29:24.000We are fighting for the dignity of the individual.
00:29:27.000We are fighting for being able to agree to disagree.
00:29:30.000In a stunning turn of events, we are now actually critics of corporations having too much influence in governments, where the Biden transition team is staffed with every major tech executive you can imagine.
00:29:42.000I actually think this is a healthy position for the Republican Party to be because I actually think it represents true conservative values.
00:29:50.000Can you comment on how we've kind of seen this surprising kind of realignment politically where Democrats are against speech, they're almost pandering to corporate interests.
00:30:00.000As you mentioned, Biden will probably get us in another foreign war and he'll probably redeploy troops, not try to withdraw them.
00:30:08.000This is a huge sea change from where the Republicans and Democrats were even 15 years ago.
00:30:16.000And it's one of the reasons Trump was so controversial because Trump, in effect, repudiated a large part of what had been the Republican establishment.
00:30:25.000And I think, I mean, it was a position I had frankly migrated to over a 20-year period because we did a lot of things correct in World War II and in the Cold War, but that era was gone.
00:30:40.000And you had to ask yourself, why were we still doing things that might have made sense in 1989?
00:30:47.000I also think that it's increasingly obvious the totalitarian left can't win the argument, so they have to eliminate the arguer because they literally can't win the arguments.
00:31:01.000And so their mission in life is to go out and do everything they can to crush the person who has an alternative viewpoint.
00:31:08.000And that allows us, I think, to become the party of free speech, as you pointed out, become the party that seeks the truth.
00:31:16.000You know, I'm writing a Thanksgiving newsletter for next week.
00:31:21.000And it's kind of interesting to imagine how a left-winger would write the same newsletter because, of course, you can't talk about Thanksgiving and the Mayflower and all that.
00:31:30.000You have to talk about Jamestown and 1619.
00:31:35.000And I think the average American just thinks that's nuts.
00:31:38.000So we're the party that believes you ought to stand for the national anthem and salute the flag.
00:31:43.000They're the party that believes you ought to kneel, ignore the national anthem, and probably burn the flag.
00:31:49.000And I think that gap psychologically is going to get bigger.
00:32:07.000They're doubling and tripling down on all of the worst kind of most radical influences in their party.
00:32:15.000You see this with the Trump Accountability Project, where they're now listing every single donor and person that worked in the Trump White House or supported President Trump so that they can never get a job again, that they can be publicly named and shamed.
00:32:27.000So we are seeing so many different examples of this.
00:32:30.000Mr. Speaker, I want to ask you about an issue that impacts actually this conversation right now.
00:32:36.000Many people will be watching this conversation on YouTube.
00:32:38.000They'll be listening to it on podcasting.
00:32:40.000The big tech companies are more powerful than any other companies we've ever seen in the history of the planet.
00:32:47.000They have an increasingly totalitarian edge to them.
00:32:52.000How should we as free market conservatives approach these big tech companies?
00:32:56.000What is the right approach politically and also from a policy perspective?
00:33:01.000Well, I mean, first of all, remember, all these people who yell free enterprise, the big tech companies exist because Section 230 of the Total Communications Act protects them from being sued.
00:33:12.000So the first thing we ought to do is just take away that protection so that if the New York Post, the oldest newspaper in America and the fourth largest, gets knocked out by Twitter, they could sue Twitter for economic damages.
00:33:28.000Second, I think they have to in the end become common carriers.
00:33:32.000That is, you know, if AT ⁇ T asserted it had the right to listen to your phone calls and to cut off the ones it didn't like, we'd all go crazy.
00:33:42.000But we have tolerated these internet systems developing that kind of internal attitude.
00:33:49.000And when you learn, for example, that Facebook has Chinese experts on censorship working in Seattle to help them develop their algorithms, I think it's very sobering.
00:34:04.000So I think you, you know, conservatism has always involved great, this has been true all the way back to Jefferson and Washington.
00:34:12.000It's always involved great skepticism about concentrations of power.
00:34:17.000Because inevitably, as Adam Smith warned in The Wealth of Nations, anytime a group of businessmen get together, it's a conspiracy against the consumer.
00:34:28.000And so I don't think they can yell free enterprise and then look at all the advantages they get, and whether it's patent law advantages or tax advantages, or you name it.
00:34:39.000And I think it's, frankly, a lot of what Twitter did was, and to a lesser extent Facebook, was so unconscionable that I'm hoping that the new Senate and the new House will hold very extensive hearings because it really was a left-wing totalitarian movement.
00:35:00.000And what happened with the Hunter Biden story was one of the creepiest and most stunning developments I have ever seen and we've ever seen with a private company interfering with a federal election.
00:35:13.000And not what was so amazing, Mr. Speaker, is that Twitter went to testify in front of Congress.
00:35:20.000And you would imagine that Jack Dorsey probably would have asked his team, hey, what questions are they going to ask me?
00:35:25.000And probably one of his people said, well, they're probably going to ask you about the New York Post being locked out of their Twitter account.
00:35:32.000And no one thought to say, hey, maybe we should give them their Twitter account before we go testify to Congress.
00:35:40.000Imagine the cockiness to not actually course correct or fix what you know they're going to ask you about.
00:35:47.000And Jack Dorsey says, you know, oh, if they delete the tweet, then they can get their Twitter account.
00:35:51.000Now, they did finally relent after about eight days of pressure.
00:35:55.000They did finally let the New York Post back in.
00:35:58.000But these tech companies actually think they run the country.
00:36:01.000Well, no, look, they're not only censoring the president of the United States, which in itself is pretty amazing.
00:36:07.000There was one particular day just before the election where they censored four out of six tweets by Rush Limbel.
00:36:14.000So you have the most popular radio talk show hosts in the country being censored by a group of left-wingers in Silicon Valley.
00:36:23.000And I think that's really a threat to our very freedoms.
00:36:27.000Yeah, and if you can't have access to the public square, then, you know, how are you able even to interface?
00:36:32.000So in closing, Mr. Speaker, what do you think the marching orders for conservative activists should be?
00:36:38.000A lot of people have kind of pent-up energy right now.
00:36:41.000They feel so frustrated that this election was stolen from them.
00:36:44.000They're not sure the best way to actually stay engaged, stay involved, and what to do.
00:36:49.000I actually think, regardless of how the presidential election shakes out with Dominion voting systems and all these different things we're looking into, Republicans are in a very good position.
00:36:59.000And this election shows us that the American people, it's still a center-right country.
00:37:03.000Despite everything that the power sources might tell you, we are still a center-right country.
00:37:09.000What should activists do, and what's kind of your advice to them?
00:37:13.000Well, I think activists should, first of all, I think activists should be noisy.
00:37:18.000I think it's very important that people recognize if you're not in the public square, if you're not fighting, if you're not doing the things that need to get done, why would you expect anybody else to know what's up?
00:37:29.000Second, they should look forward to the 2022 elections.
00:37:33.000They should be out finding candidates right now.
00:37:35.000They should take on every Democratic incumbent because as Trump proved this year, he was getting votes in places that you never expected him to get votes in.
00:37:46.000And I think as the degree to which the Democrats stand for bad government and a bad quality of life for you, I think that we're going to have an opportunity in 2022 that may be the largest we've had in modern times.
00:38:00.000And if you don't have candidates, you know, it doesn't work.
00:38:05.000So I would say you want to go out and you want to have everybody you can organize every neighborhood of every ethnic background.
00:38:13.000And then, frankly, we ought to emphasize not so much ideology, but common sense.
00:38:19.000You know, common sense says children ought to be in school.
00:38:22.000Every piece of data we have says children ought to be in school.
00:38:25.000Common sense says you don't bankrupt small businesses.
00:38:30.000Common sense says if they're going to be violent criminals, you better have police.
00:38:35.000So let's have a fight between a common sense party that wants your life to be better and an ideologically left-wing party that wants to dictate to you and tell you to chant my life is better even if it isn't.
00:38:47.000And I think we win that fight by a big margin.
00:38:50.000And what the think tank group doesn't realize is that most of America is actually not ideological.
00:38:55.000Most of America is actually just very pragmatic.
00:38:58.000And that's why they tend to be center-right.
00:39:01.000When the ideas are presented, they actually care much more about feeding their family and going to church than some think tank paper that is written about some philosopher they never heard of.
00:39:12.000So, well, Mr. Speaker, thank you so much for joining us today.
00:39:14.000Again, I want to say, Gingrich 360 Newts World, we love your commentary, and we hope to have you back again soon.
00:39:20.000Charlie, as always, it's great to be with you.
00:39:22.000You're a tremendous leader, and you're a part of why the resurgence in 2022 and 2024 is going to be so historic.