Economic Frustrations and Socialists Causing Voter Anxiety Ahead of Midterms

0:00 Speaker 1 Well, calling in right now is we have Speaker Newt Gingrich. And to me, he’ll always be the speaker. Newt, we’ve got the most important election of a lifetime coming up. Give us the pulse. You’ve been all over the country.

0:16 There’s nobody more experienced than you to talk about it. You give us the pulse of the situation.

0:23 Speaker 2 Look, I think that the American people are sort of bouncing back and forth between two very different realities. One, they really aren’t happy with high prices and all the things you and I know about. And so they are inclined to vote for the Democrats. But on the other hand, they look at the Democrats for a couple minutes and

0:52 they think, you know, they’re so scary. and their commitment to big government socialism and weird values is so threatening, I don’t think I can go there. And then they come back to the Republicans. And that’s why you see an amazing number of races where the margins are 1%, 2%, or 3%, and people are really up in the air.

1:18 In almost all of those races, there are far more people undecided than the margin between the two candidates. And I think what’s going to matter in the next couple of weeks is a national conversation. I mean, do you really want to risk people like Chuck Schumer implementing, trying to implement big government socialism, higher taxes, weird values? Or

1:44 are you really prepared to take a break, understand the Republicans haven’t done everything you wanted, but you know they’re moving in the right direction. They are trying to get things done. And which is the thing which dominates you and defines what you want to do? And I think that’s literally the conversation people are having in their own minds.

2:11 Speaker 1 Understood. And these polls, they were different 20, 30 years ago. You know, everybody had a home number. Now nobody knows where. When you answer your cell phone, they don’t know what country you’re in.

2:26 Speaker 2 That’s right. Look, I think the polling system is very dubious. I have personally very big questions about exactly what’s going on and how it’s going on. And I don’t start by relying on the pollsters. Actually, there’s a guy named Seth Keschel who is the best student of voter registration in America. And his argument is that when you look

2:58 at the whole idea of people actually changing their ballot, I used to be a Democrat, now I’m a Republican. I used to be a Republican, now I’m a Democrat. He said that’s real. That is way beyond what people think about in terms of polling. And what he has said is that the polls are substantially off. And one

3:25 example he gave me was that there’s a particular area in Arizona where the Latino vote should be coming out big for the Democrats, and they’re just not voting. And he said, so, you know, if somebody calls you on a poll, you’ll give them an answer. But are you prepared to, you know, get out of your chair, go

3:45 down to the local place and actually vote? That’s a lot bigger commitment than answering a poll. So I think my personal view is We don’t actually know how this is all going to work because we’ve never seen an election like this. We’ve never seen a president like Trump.

4:04 And we’ve never seen a Democratic Party, which is so crazy. As you know, I mean, you’re in New York. You’re watching the first genuinely socialist mayor attempt to govern a city in a way which I think personally is absolutely impossible.

4:23 Speaker 1 It’s a mess, and we have a very important election in New York City, New York State, with the governor’s race, because the only way you have checks and balances of New York City is by having a strong governor, and I am praying that he hasn’t compromised the governor. And we’ll find out soon, I guess in a couple of weeks.

4:50 Speaker 2 Yeah, I think so. she’s much weaker because of him. But if you look around the country, the guy like, for example, James Tallarico, who’s the Democratic candidate in Texas, and the Republicans, frankly, nominated a pretty weak candidate in Attorney General Ken Taxton, and against a normal Democrat, he’d be in big trouble. But Tallarico believes, for example, and

5:16 says publicly, that God is non-binary. Now, I’d actually look that up because I’m not that smart. But that means God is neither male nor female. Well, since we’ve been saying our Father who art in heaven for over 2,100 years, most people will think that’s a little weird. And then Tallarico went on to say that he thinks there are

5:38 six genders. Didn’t quite explain what the others are. But it’s the kind of weirdness where people who may or may not be happy with the Republican attorney general, they turn and they go, well, I’m not sure I’m going to take a risk on this guy. And I think that’s what we’re seeing happen over and over again.

6:02 Speaker 1 I can’t believe that Texans would actually even consider voting for Tallarico. I mean, he disappeared on us for two weeks and nobody knew where he was.

6:15 Speaker 2 Right. Well, and look, what we’re seeing is again and again, as people look at the Democrats, they’re just looking so weird. I mean, Abdul El-Saeed in Michigan is another example. He’s clearly closely tied to the Muslim Brotherhood. He is clearly committed to being anti-Israeli. He clearly represents the kind of radical values we associate with the Democratic Socialist Party. And

6:50 people look at all that and they go, well, you know, I thought I might vote for him, but... Or my favorite example is Michelle Tafoya, who was an ESPN commentator on sports, now running as a Republican against Penny Flanagan, who was the Senate governor. Penny Flanagan is very radical. And, of course, she’s, as a Senate governor... She is totally

7:17 associated with the governor, who has generally collapsed as a candidate. The scale of the corruption in Minnesota is weighing down the whole Democratic Party. So we may pick up in Minnesota a Senate seat, which in January nobody thought was available.

7:39 Speaker 1 Now, I’ve interviewed that lady that’s running in Minnesota, and she’s one smart lady.

7:46 Speaker 2 Yeah. I mean, that’s the other advantage is when you’ve had, as you know from your own experience, when you’ve had the kind of television experience that Michelle Tafoya has had, you’re just a heck of a lot better interview than a normal candidate.

8:03 Speaker 1 Absolutely. Anything else you want to tell the American people on a Sunday?

8:10 Speaker 2 Yeah, look, I think that I just, as you know, published a new book. called America’s Golden Age, which goes out to 2076. And I just want to say to folks, in the middle of all this garbage of negative ads, which I deeply dislike, we ran the contract with America with 10 positive ideas, and we focused on communicating in

8:35 a positive way, something Reagan did too. And I really think it’s sad this year in both parties. that we’re spending billions of dollars with consultants who are getting rich, making up negative, nasty attack ads, which do nothing to further the country, nothing to improve American society, and nothing to find a way to govern when it’s all over.

9:03 And I think part of the reason I wrote America’s Golden Age as a book was just, I think we’ve got to get back to a positive sense that the future can be better, that America can be better, and that all of us ought to be, in a sense, working together. Yeah, I can disagree with you a lot,

9:24 but there’s a point here where we have to find a way to genuinely, in Trump’s language, put America first. And I think that these kind of campaigns are exactly the opposite of what we need.

9:37 Speaker 1 Understood. Luke Gingrich, well, you Please continue to help America like you’ve had for the last 40, 50 years. And God bless you and God bless America. Thank you so much. Take care.