Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted the beginning of the end of traditional American government if the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to throw former President Trump off next year’s ballot is allowed to stand.
“I think this is potentially catastrophic,” he told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Thursday evening. “1,360,000 Coloradans voted for Donald Trump in the last election. Four lawyers want to block him from being on the ballot. That means, basically, for every 340,000 Coloradans who voted for Trump, one lawyer is stopping them. That’s a level of establishment arrogance that is not sustainable.
“The last great effort like this was the 10 states that refused to put Abraham Lincoln on the ballot in 1860,” he went on. “The American people are not going to tolerate, and I hope the Supreme Court fully understands. The American people are not going to tolerate being told that they are not allowed to have a choice for who they want to have as president.
“This is not Venezuela. It’s not Nicaragua. It’s not Cuba. I think the Democrats are dangerously close to causing the kind of confrontation that would be truly disastrous for the country,” Gingrich predicted.
Ingraham then played a clip of Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick on her show the previous night saying that maybe it was time to take President Biden off the Lone Star State’s 2024 ballot for allowing some 8 million migrants to cross illegally into the country after reversing nearly all of his predecessor’s immigration and border security policies.
“I mean, look at what has happened to America with this open border. That in and of itself is its own type of insurrection against sovereignty, against the rule of law. So is this not a natural reaction if this is the precedent they set?” Ingraham asked.
“Yes,” Gingrich said. “Look, Biden’s illegal immigration policy, which leads to Biden’s illegal immigrants, is a disaster, and it’s deliberate. It’s not — there is not a failure on the border.
“There is a deliberate policy on the border to maximize the number of people who come in. The next stage will be for the left to demand that they be allowed to vote even though they are here illegally. You can see the whole process,” he added. “And that’s why we are, I think, moving dangerously close to a really genuine confrontation other than the very nature of America.”
Asked to respond to whether he believes the Democrats are setting up a potential civil unrest situation, Gingrich said: “I think what you heard last night from the Texas contingent tells you know, this is still a country where states have enormous levels of freedom. And if we are going to get into a real knockdown, drag-out fight, which would be crazy, let me emphasize.”
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Newt believes Democrats' moves to take down Trump are aimed at stoking civil unrest so Biden's handlers can crack down ahead of an election they know they are likely to lose. Scary stuff. pic.twitter.com/LrPSggZZMv
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