Former Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, a Fox News contributor, has made a startling prediction.
Gingrich was interviewed by Fox News host Sean Hannity on Monday when he predicted that former President Donald Trump would win bigger than the landslide Ronald Reagan had against Jimmy Carter in 1980 by a margin of 489 Electoral votes to 49.
“I think [DeSantis] has a great future, has been an extraordinarily good governor, and I hope he will stay active in public life. I just did a newsletter for tomorrow pointing out this is about to be the longest general election in American history. I think it is something like 287 days from Wednesday until election day,” Gingrich began.
“Donald Trump tomorrow night will be the Republican nominee. If Ambassador Haley is wise, she will find a graceful way, as Governor DeSantis did, to get out of the race. If she is unwise, she will go to South Carolina and she will be decisively defeated in her home state, and that will just shrink her. Right now you have to have great respect for her courage, her determination, her energy, her articulation. She is about as high as she’s ever going to get, and I think, if tomorrow night ends as Matt Towery has suggested, and I think he’s is right, it’s going to be Trump somewhere between 1 and 30 points ahead of her,” he added.
“Well, two primaries in a row against the man who totally dominates the party nationally. The objective reality is it’s over, and I think, if that’s what happens tomorrow night, I hope Governor Haley will decide that she’s done her best, just as Governor DeSantis did, but in fact, this is now Donald Trump’s party and we need to unify to defeat Joe Biden…,” he told Hannity.
“The objective reality is that at a performance level, this is a disastrous administration. Biden’s illegal immigrants alone would sink a normal candidate, and it’s just going to get worse. It’s not going to get better. Chicago announced yesterday they have no extra space. New York got so desperate, they kicked out American schoolchildren for the night and brought in illegal immigrants because it was so cold,” the former Speaker said.
“Every time people turned around, the illegal immigration policy of Biden, which is a deliberate policy to open the border and have the maximum number of people enter the U.S. Illegally, that’s blowing up on the Democrats everywhere. Second, the country is not at all convinced by the woke left-wing radicalism. Simple example, 6% of Americans are willing to buy an electric vehicle. The Biden administration wants to make that 100%. Well, you can’t, in a free society, coerce 94% of the country into doing something they don’t want to do,” he noted further.
Gingrich: Trump's victory in November will be a bigger blowout than when Ronald Reagan destroyed President Jimmy Carter. pic.twitter.com/AeiyfEmijM
— USA Features Media (@UsaFeatures) January 23, 2024
“So I think on both policy grounds and performance grounds Biden will get worse and worse, weaker and weaker. Democrats will become more and more terrified. And I think this will be a bigger blowout than Reagan over Carter. I think this is one of the amazing moments in American history, and Trump will have over 280 days to crisscross the country, strengthen the Republican party, and campaign among groups who normally never see a Republican. Meaning, you have the time now to design a true general election strategy of trying to unify the whole country. And if you watch his tone, he has very correctly begun to move toward a unifying, bring us together, solve problems, fix the big cities. Not something Republicans normally talk about. So I am encouraged that this could be a remarkable general election…,” the former Speaker said.
“When people realize that the District of Columbia voted 95% for Biden, that the current judge is a radical left-winger, that the current prosecutor is so out of the rules that the Supreme Court actually admonished him for having broken the rules and trying to get another Republican politician years ago, they’re just going to say this whole thing is rigged. And I don’t care what they try to do to Trump — when it is rigged, the country will rally to the individual against the establishment, and all they are doing — I think they got Trump the nomination at least a month earlier. I really thought he would get it by the time we got to Super Tuesday. I never dreamed he would get it by the end of the New Hampshire primary, which was really the last great stand of the non-Trump Republicans,” Gingrich continued.
“And it tells you that what has happened is the radical corrupt Biden judicial department, the Justice Department, has, in fact, so alienated people that, given the choice, whatever Trump’s weaknesses may sometimes be, he is the person standing and representing all of us who need protection from an out of control left-wing government. And I think that gives him a strength that we have probably not seen in modern times,” he noted.
