The Great America Show - NEWT GINGRICH SAYS GOP SHOULD BE THE PARTY OF THE MAJORITY

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00:01:15.760 President Biden's poll numbers certainly aren't improving.

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00:01:32.200 Not good for President Biden and not good for the Democrats.

00:01:36.780 Here with us today is the former Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives,

00:01:41.480 Newt Gingrich.

00:01:42.600 No one better credentialed to address our national politics and American governance.

00:01:48.660 Newt is also a best-selling author.

00:01:50.620 In fact, his newest book will be out in June.

00:01:53.760 It's entitled Defeating Big Government Socialism, and you can pre-order your copy now.

00:02:00.180 I recommend all of Newt's books.

00:02:02.860 His website is Gingrich360.com for all things Gingrich.

00:02:07.940 Newt is also a podcaster, historian, and great American.

00:02:12.440 Newt, first of all, it's a great honor to have you with us here on the Great America Show.

00:02:17.680 And I'm just fascinated to hear your summarization of where the Republican Party is right now.

00:02:28.880 A lot of talk about red waves, and then some talk about we must be cautious.

00:02:36.220 Your thoughts?

00:02:38.060 Well, look, I don't think you can ever take anything for granted.

00:02:41.620 I think that right now all the patterns tend to favor the Republicans.

00:02:48.940 I would be very, very surprised if we didn't have Kevin McCarthy as the Speaker of the House next year

00:02:57.620 because they only need to pick up five seats.

00:02:59.920 And given the current data, they're more likely to pick up 40 than they are to pick up five.

00:03:05.220 So I'm pretty confident about the House, and I think, frankly, the Senate's starting to get in better and better shape.

00:03:12.400 I mean, Nevada, for example, the Democrats are just collapsing because, you know, things aren't working.

00:03:18.760 Between high gasoline prices, high food prices, and the impact of the governor's mistakes in COVID,

00:03:26.020 you have in Nevada, I think, some 10,000 workers at the resorts who are still unemployed.

00:03:33.680 Well, they're not very excited about the job the Democrats have done.

00:03:37.380 And so you actually see Latinos in Nevada now breaking Republican in very big numbers,

00:03:46.840 something which is truly historic.

00:03:48.480 So I think overall this could be a great year.

00:03:52.160 I think, you know, it's at least in part a great year because the combination of, I think, three things.

00:04:00.460 The personalities.

00:04:01.620 I mean, you have between Biden, Harris, Schumer, Pelosi, people who are just not very desirable as leaders.

00:04:10.780 And in the House, the top three House members on the Democratic side are so old that their collective age would take you back to 1777,

00:04:20.540 10 years before, you know, the Constitution was adopted.

00:04:24.240 I mean, so people look at that, and it's one thing to be older and succeed.

00:04:29.340 But if you're older and you're not succeeding, they sort of compound.

00:04:33.520 I think second, there's a plain-out performance problem.

00:04:37.560 You know, we've had Hillary and Barack Obama both say, oh, it's a messaging problem.

00:04:43.260 Well, when you're out there and you're filling up your gas tank, I filled up Callista's car the other night, and it was $91.

00:04:52.020 Now, at $91, there's no messaging that makes you feel good.

00:04:57.200 You go to the grocery store and you'll get the price of beef or the price of chicken.

00:05:00.300 Wheat is going to go up dramatically this year because the Ukraine is a very, very big wheat producer.

00:05:08.640 And the fact is that you have about 40 percent of the world's wheat supply comes from Russia and Ukraine.

00:05:16.720 So you're going to have huge pricing impacts there.

00:05:20.500 Those are the kind of things you have to think about that are all coming together as a performance problem.

00:05:26.740 And then lastly, you have a plain-out values problem. 0.96

00:05:30.020 I mean, when you start talking to people and you ask them, you know, do you really think that three-year-olds ought to be involved in discussing transgender issues, they think you're nuts.

00:05:42.580 I mean, the average American doesn't get where the left is on all these cultural things.

00:05:48.200 So I think those three things all come together in a way which is stunningly destructive.

00:05:52.940 This is really a battle cry right now from middle America. 1.00

00:05:58.880 Is the Republican Party, in your judgment, being strong enough on the issue?

00:06:04.320 Are they building this into their national campaign?

00:06:09.100 I realize we're talking about a midterm, but a national campaign because it seems such a compelling issue.

00:06:16.400 Well, I think it's growing as an issue, and you see the reaction, for example, to the bill that Governor DeSantis got passed in Florida that says you can't discuss it until they get out of the third grade.

00:06:31.340 Well, you know, 84 percent of the country believes parents ought to have the right to know what's happening in their child's school.

00:06:38.840 So just start with that.

00:06:41.200 I mean, and I think you'll see that become a national Republican position all across the country, that you as a parent have a right to know what teachers are doing with your children.

00:06:51.200 And, of course, the teachers' union is bitterly opposed to that.

00:06:54.800 And the teachers' unions, for the first time in my career, are actually in the focus of the public and blaming them for much of what has occurred as a result of COVID and the way in which they responded by closing down schools, insisting that they be protected, in quotes.

00:07:18.300 It's really a strange moment that this should be happening right now.

00:07:23.860 Your thoughts on that issue?

00:07:25.660 Well, I think you have this whole notion, and I think you're exactly right, that you have people who, first of all, go to these woke universities, and then they end up teaching, and their values are radically different than the values of the parents.

00:07:40.360 And, you know, it turned out, for example, not only do 84 percent of the country think that parents have every right to know what is being taught their children, but an equal 84 percent believe that America is worth fighting for.

00:07:55.140 Their values and principles are worth fighting for.

00:07:57.860 Well, you know, if you're a left-winger who's anti-American, these things are just anathema to you.

00:08:04.080 And so there is a real potential fight between the parents and those who believe in defending America and the teachers' union and its more radical members.

00:08:17.860 And radical members galore most funding of political campaigns and candidates from the two major teachers' unions overwhelmingly goes to Democrats.

00:08:33.080 That in and of itself is a tremendous statement about what needs to be done to assure local control of public education, don't you think?

00:08:43.540 Well, I think that's exactly right.

00:08:46.200 And what you end up with is a situation where, you know, I think one of every four delegates at the last Democratic convention was from the teachers' union.

00:08:56.140 And so, in a sense, the Democrats are kind of a wholly owned subsidiary.

00:09:01.540 And if you look at the people who lead the teachers' union, they're all hardline left-wingers.

00:09:06.780 The post office has six public employee unions.

00:09:10.220 The federal government is unionized, for crying out loud.

00:09:14.500 State governments unionize county and so forth throughout the country.

00:09:19.520 And without public employee unions.

00:09:23.020 Well, that's right.

00:09:23.620 And you end up in a situation, I think, that when you're dealing with the average American, for a very long time, we just assumed that the teachers were normal, that you could trust them.

00:09:37.240 I mean, you know, there's a certain built-in psychological need to be able to say, you know, that I'm sending my child to somebody I can trust.

00:09:45.080 And now I think one of the side effects of people staying home and the schools going to distance learning was all of a sudden parents learned what in fact was happening in their schools.

00:09:59.900 And I think they were shocked.

00:10:02.400 I think that's a great point because it also taught us a lot about maybe we could reclaim some decentralization in our lives, whether it's going into work, whether it is simply trying to build up a life at home in your neighborhood, in your community.

00:10:20.980 When many people were spending most of their time commuting back and forth to work.

00:10:26.180 I think that's right.

00:10:27.600 And I think, you know, we're going through so many different changes right now.

00:10:34.340 And we're going to be so disrupted by things like inflation, crime, millions of illegal immigrants. 1.00

00:10:40.640 I mean, the degree to which the left has broken down the system, people like George Soros putting in millions of dollars to elect pro-criminal, anti-victim district attorneys, some of whom are by any reasonable standards certifiably crazy, people who would put rapists and murderers and carjackers back on the street.

00:11:04.520 You know, I think the country is taking a measure of this, and the country doesn't find it very acceptable.

00:11:12.360 So I think there's a chance here that you may be about to have literally an American majority, much bigger than a Republican majority, and you may be about to have people, anti-left Democrats, independents and Republicans, all coming together.

00:11:30.740 And that would really be a remarkable moment.

00:11:34.520 Yeah, and that moment may be upon us.

00:11:38.180 One of the numbers that I think doesn't get enough attention, again, certainly in the media, is the number of independents who are responding in the affirmative when they talk about Republicans and the midterm elections.

00:11:55.360 They're obviously, for the first time, overwhelmingly moving toward the Republican Party.

00:12:02.560 How important is that in your judgment?

00:12:06.120 Well, I think what you're seeing is the Democratic Party beginning to be crowded back into being sort of woke college professionals who are isolated from the whole rest of the country.

00:12:20.940 And there's a very interesting book called Coming Apart, which looked at by Charles Murray, who looked at the zip codes and said, there are a set of zip codes in the U.S.

00:12:34.600 where people who went to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford, et cetera, marry people who go to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Stanford.

00:12:43.260 And those zip codes are totally different from the whole rest of the country.

00:12:47.060 Right.

00:12:47.720 And when, you know, it's a fascinating small book.

00:12:51.360 And I happened to read it during the rise of Trump in 2016, and I would tell reporters, you know, if The Apprentice had been on PBS and had followed Downton Abbey, you would understand why he's so good.

00:13:06.720 But the fact is that because he was on commercial television, none of you watched it, none of you saw The Apprentice, none of you had any idea what he was like.

00:13:18.700 And it was just, you know, and I think that this is something you see happening.

00:13:24.520 So for a long time, the woke college graduates were held up by Latinos and by African-Americans and others. 0.85

00:13:32.640 But increasingly, the working, the ethnic minority working group, the people who actually go out every day and earn a living, they're looking at gas prices, they're looking at food prices, they're listening to these weird ideas. 0.71

00:13:45.180 They don't want their kids, you know, they don't want their daughters in a bathroom with some guy who's claiming to be a girl. 1.00

00:13:52.560 They don't want to see their daughter lose a swimming match to some guy who's clearly male, et cetera.

00:14:00.060 And so what you end up with is a very deep desire by a growing number.

00:14:07.720 I think we may actually get a majority of the Latino vote in about 30 percent of the African-American vote this year.

00:14:13.540 And that's really a remarkable change.

00:14:17.240 That would be truly a dramatic and historic change.

00:14:21.300 But with those numbers that high, the Democratic Party would be on the edge of the abyss, wouldn't they?

00:14:30.900 Well, look, I think there's a chance if Republicans can really think about being the American majority party

00:14:40.500 and can really reach out to independents and to disaffected Democrats, which is what Reagan did so brilliantly.

00:14:48.420 Bring them all together.

00:14:50.020 I think you could see a new governing majority emerge, particularly if after they win, they keep their word.

00:14:57.360 They find ways to be helpful.

00:15:00.480 You know, this was sort of what Reagan did in the 80s.

00:15:03.020 I'm actually beginning to write some newsletters at Gingrich 360.

00:15:06.840 I'm going to write a series of four newsletters on the concept of creating an American majority rather than a Republican majority.

00:15:15.320 And if that happens, then you have ended the Rooseveltian majority after 90 years.

00:15:20.880 And you've really changed fundamentally how this country is going to solve its problems.

00:15:25.500 Well, I can't wait to read your thoughts on that.

00:15:28.960 But give us a bit of a prelude, if you will, because right now the left controls every aspect of our lives, in point of fact.

00:15:39.400 Business, government, education, media.

00:15:44.320 I can't think of a single corner where the left and in many cases, excuse me, in most cases, they're Marxist leftists.

00:15:54.520 But it's hard to envision there being a quick, sudden reshaping of the body politic.

00:16:03.660 Well, look, I think you put your finger on one of the great challenges.

00:16:07.340 I keep on my desk the 1,093-page book that Heritage produced called Mandate for Leadership, which they did for Reagan in 1980.

00:16:17.720 They brought in 250 experts.

00:16:20.040 They outlined how to reshape the federal government very dramatically.

00:16:25.280 Reagan came into office, picked up the book, hired all these people.

00:16:29.780 And there's a famous scene in the cabinet room where Ed Meese puts the book on the table and says, this is our plan.

00:16:37.260 It was just, you know.

00:16:38.900 And so they were able to really take over the government.

00:16:41.640 We need the same depth of thinking now.

00:16:43.960 We need to recognize that whether it's the Pentagon or Health and Human Services or the Department of Education, all of these large, creaky, old bureaucracies infiltrated and infested by left-wingers who have contempt for the voter and contempt for elected officials and, frankly, contempt for the law.

00:17:03.340 That's all going to have to be cleaned out.

00:17:06.100 And unless we're prepared to do that, we're not going to be capable of really turning the corner.

00:17:11.020 You know, you can win one election on bad performance, but you can't build a majority in the long run just on bad performance.

00:17:18.560 Well, Donald Trump was, I think, just a historic leader.

00:17:23.280 No one since Reagan had had his impact, no one since FDR, in my judgment, had done as much in terms of domestic policy as he did in four years, in their first four years.

00:17:40.500 I'm all for that.

00:17:42.180 And I am about as anti-establishment as any Republican can be, I believe.

00:17:47.780 But I don't know where you turn in academia.

00:17:51.060 That's what is my point.

00:17:52.300 Well, look, you may just have to turn to smart business people. 0.98

00:17:57.560 I mean, frankly, I'd rather have a smart conservative football coach than have a dumb left-wing college professor. 0.97

00:18:05.060 Okay, well, I take your point. 0.97

00:18:07.780 And my point, again, is that right now we are bereft of real talent in either social criticism or conservatism itself in academia.

00:18:20.980 Why is that?

00:18:23.280 Well, it's because they get crowded out.

00:18:24.680 Because the other side understood that they were totally committed to driving everybody out of public life that didn't kowtow and agree with them.

00:18:36.980 And it's almost a Maoist groupthink model.

00:18:39.760 And I think you just have to recognize that.

00:18:42.640 So our job is to go out and to find people who have the courage to stand up.

00:18:48.320 You'll find them in individual places.

00:18:50.300 You'll find them in some of the think tanks.

00:18:53.100 You'll find them in businesses.

00:18:54.420 You'll find them in Republican state governments.

00:18:56.440 My guess would be, you know, he might not want you to do it.

00:19:00.340 But if you went down to Florida, DeSantis has gotten 50 or 100 really smart people running the Florida state government.

00:19:08.140 He really does.

00:19:08.940 DeSantis, he is a phenomenon, isn't he?

00:19:14.220 He really is.

00:19:14.860 I would say that other than Trump, he is the most exciting and most interesting person that I have seen come along from a Republican side.

00:19:27.840 And I think that he clearly has a great national future.

00:19:31.760 He's also got $100 million in his war chest for re-election, which is assured.

00:19:37.740 So that becomes, do you think he's going to be running, irrespective of whether President Trump is running?

00:19:42.320 Well, I suspect he might be.

00:19:43.920 I think, look, I always tell people it's a long way from here to 2024.

00:19:49.840 At this point in 2014, nobody would have thought Donald Trump was even going to run.

00:19:55.460 Right.

00:19:55.700 I want to talk, too, about just the system, because of all that, if the Republican Party has the wisdom to follow your guidance and your thinking, your architecture for what should be done,

00:20:11.080 if indeed the red wave builds and comes crashing down on the polls on Election Day,

00:20:21.300 what is to assure us that the electoral system won't be rigged just as it was in 2020?

00:20:30.520 Oh, I think, first of all, that a lot of states have adopted rules that make it much harder, that they learn from it.

00:20:36.060 I think I would say to everybody who's concerned that they should see the great new film from Citizens United called Rigged,

00:20:44.140 which was about basically what Zuckerberg did with $415 million.

00:20:53.460 So I think in that sense, if you watch Rigged, you'll understand that a lot of the election setup occurred long before the election,

00:21:02.120 that the left was determined to methodically defeat Trump by any means they had to.

00:21:06.800 It is, it's an incredible, I think it's the best documentary that David Bossie has produced.

00:21:12.480 He's, he's done some great documentaries, but this is so clearly and so entertainingly elucidates what actually happened,

00:21:24.560 particularly in the three battleground states, Arizona, Wisconsin, and Georgia.

00:21:31.060 42,000 votes, 10,000 in Arizona, 11,000 in Wisconsin, and 20, 21,000, 22,000, you've got to argue the point,

00:21:41.660 but it comes out to 42,000 among three states that made the difference in the outcome of that election.

00:21:47.340 That means something should have been done because if it's rigged, it isn't right, is it?

00:21:55.460 No, that's right.

00:21:55.980 Now, I think, look, if you're an average everyday American and you don't have a spare billion dollars,

00:22:01.600 clearly you had billionaires trying to take control of the country.

00:22:06.020 And you had Google and Facebook and Twitter cheating by any reasonable standard.

00:22:12.620 I mean, when you take the president of the United States off of social media and you're denying it,

00:22:20.320 and then you get 73 million votes, you have to ask yourself, you know, by what right?

00:22:26.660 What's their moral authority for denying the president access?

00:22:31.000 When you take the oldest newspaper in the United States and the fourth largest newspaper in the United States,

00:22:35.720 the New York Post, and you cut it off of social media because it is accurately reporting on Hunter Biden's corruption,

00:22:44.560 something which now even the New York Times and Washington Post are finally admitting to two years later,

00:22:49.120 you know there's something sick about how the left was cheating and what the left was doing.

00:22:56.060 And to suggest that all of that happened as pure happenstance and coincidence that the timing was,

00:23:04.500 if not contemporaneous, it was simultaneous in most instances in point of fact.

00:23:11.820 The New York Times and the Washington Post, though, to their discredit,

00:23:15.600 have not acknowledged their responsibility and the consequences.

00:23:19.120 Of that decision to cover up for Joe Biden and the laptop, it's disgusting.

00:23:29.300 And as you point out, there's a number of events, had they been controlled,

00:23:36.560 had William Barr had the guts, as he knew Joe Biden was lying in that debate,

00:23:41.760 to have said, excuse me, I think it's important that we point out that this is an active investigation,

00:23:47.920 that this is a real laptop, and those 50 intel officers are simply not aware of the reality.

00:23:56.380 He considered that intervention had he done that.

00:23:59.500 Meanwhile, he also acknowledges that Joe Biden lying is an intervention of itself.

00:24:04.460 What do you think?

00:24:06.560 Well, I mean, first of all, I think that when the Republicans take over,

00:24:11.220 that the Intelligence Committee has to really dive into the profound dishonesty

00:24:15.720 of over 50 leading figures in the intelligence community signing a letter which is totally false.

00:24:22.880 I mean, there's something really sick about people who are trusted by the American people

00:24:27.420 because they were seen as senior intelligence people, and they all collectively lied.

00:24:33.920 So from that standpoint, I think there's a lot that has to be done.

00:24:37.300 And I think it's also a reminder that most of these bureaucracies are left-wing.

00:24:41.540 Most of these bureaucrats are quite prepared to cheat,

00:24:44.720 and that you have to really understand how much they are committed

00:24:50.620 to defeating Trump no matter what and no matter how many laws they broke.

00:24:56.300 I thought it was truly remarkable the way in which the underlying professionals,

00:25:05.180 the FBI, the CIA, the Justice Department, they were all cheating.

00:25:10.820 And it's just remarkable.

00:25:13.220 I don't remember any time in American history that it was like this,

00:25:17.060 and it was dramatically bigger than anything that we saw happening in Watergate. 0.98

00:25:22.840 I mean, you look at the stupidity of Watergate, and then you look at this stuff, 0.97

00:25:27.480 and you can tell that there was just no comparison about the way in which this operated. 0.98

00:25:35.160 There's sort of a reflex on the part of some to say about the FBI when I say,

00:25:39.280 you know, they're cheating, they're crooked, and that's the way it is.

00:25:43.160 There's no ifs, ands, buts.

00:25:44.720 It's unequivocal.

00:25:45.560 And they'll say, yes, but there are good people within it.

00:25:48.580 And then I'll say, the CIA, the same thing, but there are good people in it.

00:25:52.820 What strikes me, Newt, is there may be good people in it, 0.63

00:25:57.000 but not a single damn one stepped up and expressed himself or herself

00:26:02.300 in favor of the American people and just simple decency and honesty. 0.93

00:26:06.860 No, I mean, look, that's exactly right.

00:26:10.120 I mean, you're in a situation where you're being told that these are really honorable people,

00:26:18.260 but in fact, their honor didn't come to insisting on the truth or breaking from the group.

00:26:23.440 And my question then goes to the very simple matter of what next should we do about the Republican Party itself?

00:26:33.500 You mentioned Kevin McCarthy.

00:26:37.320 He, in the minds of many, is rather weak to be the leader.

00:26:42.360 He attacked the president right after January 6th.

00:26:45.680 He's bowed down to the January 6th committee and has been too often very, I'll put it this way,

00:26:55.820 flexible with the Democratic leadership.

00:26:58.340 Yeah, I mean, I guess, having been speaker, I guess I see it somewhat differently.

00:27:02.460 I mean, McCarthy opposed the committee, refused to assign any Republicans to serve on it,

00:27:09.040 and has consistently attacked it.

00:27:11.620 But, you know, the House is a place where if you have 218 votes, you can just run over people.

00:27:16.960 So I think under the rules of the House, Pelosi had certain advantages, and she used them,

00:27:24.460 but he didn't collaborate with her.

00:27:25.920 If anything, he's been very tough, and I think you're going to see when he is in a position to wield power

00:27:34.360 that he will be, you know, there's going to be some significant payback, and there already has been.

00:27:39.880 I mean, look what he did in terms of Liz Cheney, who, you know, was supposed, you know,

00:27:45.320 she was in the leadership.

00:27:46.280 She was in the number three position in the leadership, and then, boom, she wasn't.

00:27:50.760 Yeah, and she was censured, if you will.

00:27:57.200 But why not just expel her from the party after what she had done?

00:28:02.640 There's just an attitude within the House.

00:28:06.620 Well, I mean, what McCarthy has done, to just stay with him for a minute,

00:28:10.960 is he has openly endorsed and raised money for her opponent.

00:28:17.860 Right.

00:28:18.460 And then has said, you know, we ought to beat her. 0.91

00:28:20.320 She shouldn't come back.

00:28:21.640 I think their view was that if they kicked her out of the party while she was still serving, 0.92

00:28:26.920 Nancy would just appoint her to something else, and she would become, you know, 0.72

00:28:30.960 it would further prove that inside the House right now, the Speaker has power,

00:28:36.380 which is, in fact, how the House works.

00:28:38.600 Well, the House members that I've spoken with are concerned that he has, in point of fact,

00:28:44.840 not been strong enough, not loud enough on issues that matter, including the impeachment

00:28:50.660 of the president twice.

00:28:53.060 He has not been loud enough when it comes to the January 6th committee.

00:28:59.020 And the laptop, why in the world with this in front of him?

00:29:03.560 Is there not a Republican investigation of it?

00:29:06.140 I think you do have Republicans who are raising cane.

00:29:10.220 You have Republicans who are, you know, trying to pressure the Justice Department.

00:29:14.840 And I think that you'll find that the morning that they control the House,

00:29:19.960 that they will, in fact, be organizing a whole series of those kind of investigations.

00:29:25.560 I mean, I'm not quite sure what it is they would do right now,

00:29:29.280 because they don't technically have the legal ability to,

00:29:34.220 they can't go out and subpoena anybody.

00:29:40.200 They certainly talk about it a lot.

00:29:43.820 And I think that's...

00:29:45.820 I guess what I'm saying, Newton, is I would like to see if they could

00:29:48.420 gin up nothing other than public education.

00:29:52.360 It would be extremely helpful to the party.

00:29:54.500 It would also show that there's some grit and gristle to them

00:29:58.320 that isn't really very apparent right now.

00:30:01.960 They got outsmarted in 2020.

00:30:03.880 This with President Trump saying as early as May, their election was rigged.

00:30:07.700 And the RNC did nothing.

00:30:10.320 I can't tell you how many times I talked with the RNC and officials

00:30:15.680 who assured me that they had all the people on the ground that they needed.

00:30:19.580 They had all the attorneys.

00:30:20.680 They were ready to go.

00:30:21.600 They were going to be at every polling station,

00:30:24.660 and they're going to be diligent and energetic.

00:30:30.260 None of it happened. 0.95

00:30:32.240 It was a pathetic performance, again, on the part of the RNC. 0.88

00:30:37.380 And in 2016, Trump had won despite the RNC. 0.93

00:30:41.080 So what are we to do?

00:30:42.580 I mean, I watched last year, for example, and Youngkin did it right,

00:30:45.940 and they had 4,000 people as poll watchers.

00:30:48.780 And they got a pretty honest count, and they got the state to agree

00:30:52.500 that all the absentee ballots would be counted first.

00:30:55.640 So they didn't have any ability to go back to the absentee ballots and say,

00:30:59.340 you know, gee, we need another couple thousand,

00:31:01.440 because it already been counted and locked down.

00:31:03.680 And I think that's a model for the future.

00:31:06.720 I do think all of us, and I include me in this,

00:31:09.440 I had no idea how much.

00:31:12.060 And then this is part of why Bossy's movie couldn't be made any faster,

00:31:15.880 because they had to get these various reports filed,

00:31:18.680 and they legally didn't have to be filed until the end of the year.

00:31:21.840 But once you look at the fall of the money,

00:31:25.100 it is staggering how big an effort that was.

00:31:28.900 And I think all of us, in that sense, were caught flat-footed.

00:31:32.500 I mean, it just never occurred to us

00:31:34.660 that somebody would go out here and spend $415 million

00:31:37.900 on the election directly through city governments

00:31:42.200 in a way that clearly is totally corrupt.

00:31:46.600 And I think, you know, speaking for myself,

00:31:49.500 I was certainly caught flat-footed.

00:31:52.320 But what happened in five cities in Wisconsin,

00:31:55.980 with what amounted to, according to Gableman,

00:31:59.300 Michael Cableman, the special counsel investigating it

00:32:05.280 and still investigating it,

00:32:07.200 you know, it was election bribery, straight out.

00:32:09.480 Yep. I think that's right.

00:32:11.800 And if it was bribery then, it's bribery now.

00:32:15.320 And that's a felony.

00:32:16.820 Yet nobody has prosecuted.

00:32:19.240 Bill Barr, again, the attorney general,

00:32:21.280 had every responsibility and obligation

00:32:24.500 to investigate and did not.

00:32:26.280 It was a perfect storm of indolence, incompetence,

00:32:34.300 and meek, lily-livered elected officials

00:32:38.860 and appointed officials.

00:32:40.500 Couldn't have happened at a worse time for the people

00:32:42.680 or for the president.

00:32:45.380 Well, and I think that it illustrated

00:32:47.080 just how viciously and totally

00:32:50.220 the establishment was dedicated

00:32:51.860 to blocking the American people 0.92

00:32:53.980 from having an honest election.

00:32:55.280 Yeah, I think that's exactly right.

00:32:58.000 And I'm sure that we're going to see

00:33:01.280 that red wave you speak of.

00:33:04.000 And I know that the Democrats

00:33:06.680 are going to do everything they can

00:33:08.020 to wrest victory from the jaws of defeat.

00:33:13.920 You want to give us your sense

00:33:15.400 of what you think the outcome will be in November?

00:33:19.500 And I know it's early days.

00:33:21.600 Yeah, if I were guessing,

00:33:22.740 we'll probably be plus four in the Senate.

00:33:25.280 And I think we'll be somewhere

00:33:27.440 between 40 and 70 in the House.

00:33:30.280 From your lips to God's ears.

00:33:32.820 Newt Gingrich, it's great to have you with us.

00:33:35.060 We appreciate it so much.

00:33:36.680 Well, it's always terrific.

00:33:37.800 And I look forward to doing it again, Lou.

00:33:39.760 Newt Gingrich, great American.

00:33:42.100 And I really like his midterm election prediction.

00:33:45.540 Tomorrow, our guest will be

00:33:46.880 Congresswoman Claudia Tenney.

00:33:48.500 She's a conservative, she's smart,

00:33:51.120 and a fighter for truth, justice,

00:33:52.960 and the American way.

00:33:54.600 You'll like her a lot.

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The Great America Show - April 12, 2022

NEWT GINGRICH SAYS GOP SHOULD BE THE PARTY OF THE MAJORITY

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