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Newt Gingrich - February 26th, Hour 2
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Uh New Kingrich has a great column that is coming out.
He shared an early draft with me, and he's pointing out w what the state of the race is right now, both in the primary and general election.
It's as usual, very new, smart and intelligent and dead on accurate.
And he points out Joe Biden's weaknesses, and he talks about Nikki Haley's loss in South Carolina by 21, a crushing defeat in her home state, and talks about the fact that with the Koch fundraising system now they've they've reached the same conclusion.
The money's starting to dry up.
I'm not sure if Ari Fleischer is right.
It might be a good guess that he felt that the concession speech, if you even want to call it that, but a speech in South Carolina after the primary sounded like she was leaning or looking towards the no labels party.
I'm not sure if that's a reality.
I'd like to think better of her not doing that and trying to hurt the Republican Party.
But you can't say for sure.
Then when you lose your home state by 21, when you lose Nevada by literally 30 plus points, 33 points to be exact to the none of these candidates, a term that Nevada allows on their ballot.
When you come in third in Iowa and you lose by double digits in New Hampshire, that's a state that should be favorable to her.
It's just not looking good.
Anyway, former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich is with us.
How are you, sir?
I'm doing well, and I think you sort of captured it.
I don't think that she is a viable no labels candidate because she's both so clearly Republican and she has alienated such a large part of the Republican Party.
I mean, you know, when you lose to none of these candidates, which she lost by two to one, you have sort of a sense of rejection.
When you go to your home state and you get beaten as badly as she did, it's it's uh, you know, it's just the New York Times that's called it a crushing defeat.
Um I think that the the reality is the best thing she can do is get out.
The longer she stays in, the more she will alienate herself from Republicans, and this fantasy that she's gonna stay in is an insurance policy in case uh somehow uh something happens to Trump is just nonsense.
Um there are no circumstances where a Trump-led Republican Party would turn to Nikki Haley.
There is there are seventy candidates or a hundred candidates that they would turn to first.
Well, I I tend to think that you're probably right here.
Um and then you go through Joe Biden and where he is on issues.
I mean, he's got a 38% overall approval rating.
That's by Gallup, uh, one point shy of his all-time low for an incumbent president.
That is a that that that represents, you know, it should be causing real alarm within the Democratic Party and the Democratic ranks.
Is there a single policy initiative that Joe Biden implemented that you like and that has been successful?
And I don't I I I can't think of a single thing he's done that's successful, on top of him being weak, frail, and and seemingly completely out of it now.
Well, I look I I think that uh and the reason I included all of those gallop numbers in in the newsletter, which I wrote at Gingrich 360, is that when you look at it, he is in worse shape now than Jimmy Carter was.
Uh the rejection of his policies across the board uh is getting deeper and stronger.
Uh in particular, he is collapsing on the border, and of course, the tragic killing of the University of Georgia student uh by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant is just gonna further increase uh the country's uh rejection of what Biden has been doing in flooding the United States with illegal immigrants and with the drugs that they bring with them and the crime they bring with them.
And so, you know, I uh one of my points was to argue Generally, two basic themes.
One, Biden's problems are not the kind you solve with clever TV commercials.
Because in people's real lives, they see every day evidence on every front that his policies are not working and that they don't reflect the values of the American people.
Trump can campaign as the candidate of a better future, not just as the alternative to a terrible president.
One thing, Mr. Speaker, I was glad about on Saturday.
I mean, I watched the the president.
He uh to me, twenty-one points in the home state of an opponent uh is a landslide.
And when you put together the previous states that have gone forward with caucuses and primaries, uh Nikki Haley has not performed well.
And I thought the fact that he went and pivoted to Biden and really didn't mention her.
I I kind of like the idea that as soon as the polls closed and they called the race for him, he just went right out there.
Uh I thought New Hampshire it was a mistake to respond to her previous speech when she went out ahead of him.
And anyway, moving forward, I I just think that he's now got to look at this race as him versus Biden, at least for now.
Do you I mean, do you think Biden makes it to November?
Yeah, I I just think the weight of the presidency, you know, you get a guy who spends six or seven trillion dollars a year, he's got a lot of staying power, uh, no matter how weak he may seem.
So I my guess is that that nobody on the Democratic side is gonna take the risk of taking him head on.
Uh so I think we should assume that.
But more importantly, I mean Trump has an opportunity because anybody other than Biden will this may surprise you, anybody other than Biden will be weaker, not stronger.
Uh, and will have many minefields.
I mean, would would that include Michelle Obama and Gavin Newsom?
Absolutely.
I mean, first place, I mean, look at this one.
How do you answer why did Sylvester Stallone leave?
That's true.
Big news, the Sylvester Stallone is permanently he's left California for Florida.
It's a done deal, he said.
Well, you know, why did I leave New York?
That's a done deal too.
Right.
So though my point is, I mean, Gavin Newsom means By the way, I'm not comparing myself to Sly.
I want to be very clear here.
Um no Sylvester Stallone, Mr. Speaker.
Uh I have to tell you, we just finished watching the first season of Tulsa Kings.
He is really good.
I I watched it, it was so good that series.
I loved it.
He's yeah, he's got he's got his A game going on.
Uh and and he's a great guy in real life, too.
Love him.
And all the Rocky movies, Rambo movies, I mean, uh you know, they're go-to's for me when I want to watch something that I really like.
Well, I'm hoping for season two as soon as possible, but but my only point is there's so much stuff wrong in California, the newsom, if he ever gets genuinely looked at by the national media, will disintegrate.
And Michelle's not gonna run.
I mean, you know I don't see it either, but so many people seem to think that's a real a possibility.
I don't see it.
Well, first of all, she's more radical than Barack, and she's more uh racially intense than Barack.
And she can't explain the amount of money they've got, the size of their mansion.
I mean, you know, they managed for eight years to live out a myth that was a lie, and that they were really normal everyday people, but they're not.
Uh, they're both radicals, but she's much like Hillary is much more radical than than Bill Clinton.
Um Michelle is more radical than Barack.
Uh, and that that would not work very well in a national campaign.
So, I mean, I think they're basically stuck.
They could go to a Governor Whitmer in Michigan, they could go uh to the governor of Pennsylvania, but I don't think they will.
I think it's in my mind, the challenge for Trump is not don't even worry about your opponent.
Worry about assembling and attracting the largest coalition since FDR.
And I'm hoping he's gonna go into every major city in the country and say, you know, that he can offer three things.
He can offer safety, both at home and abroad.
He can offer affordability and prosperity in the economy, and he can offer American patriotism.
And on those three fronts, I think that that he can attract in a time of despair and in a time when people are frightened, I think he could attract an amazingly big majority.
I also think in the country there is an underlying fear.
I mean, we've got war in Europe, we've got war in the Middle East, and and we have a president that that is checked out.
I I don't think that President Chi or Vladimir Putin or Kim Jong-un or the Mullers in Iran, I don't think any of them fear Joe Biden.
I I think they've concluded what most Americans with common sense have concluded that he doesn't know what day of the week it is, and and that's really scary for our national security on t especially the border.
I think it's the b the biggest national security threat we faced in our lifetime.
Yeah, I think there's no question that between the the Russian aggressiveness, uh the the Iranian aggressiveness, uh the Chinese aggressiveness, uh the terrorism of Hamas, you're faced with uh tremendous foreign dangers,
and then there's no question that the collapse of the border, the deliberate openness, uh, the allowing of millions of people to come into the U.S. illegally sources uh the biggest domestic threat, I think, since I would continue with former speaker of the House, New Gingrich.
Let me go back to the primary for one more second because the Koch brothers and Americans for prosperity, I guess, pulled their money from Nikki Haley and or it's Americans for prosperity action to be totally accurate.
And I I'm looking at the them pulling back their support, but there are other Never Trumpers that I think that are really behind the the massive amounts of money.
I I'm she has been outspending the Trump campaign combined over twenty percent, like twenty to one.
And why is she staying in this race at this point if she can't win her own home state?
What's the purpose?
Well, I mean, I think look, I mean it's very hard for candidates to psychologically give up because it's the end.
Uh and as long as people ran for president once, and and what was it like for you?
It was very hard to give up.
I mean, he even when it was clear that Romney was gonna be the nominee, it was just hard to walk off.
I mean, that that part I understand.
Uh I think the fact that the that the Koch system uh is now going to cut her off will be a big step in in her collapse.
And I think gradually it'll sink in.
Uh again, Michigan's coming up, and then Super Tuesday, at the by the end of Super Tuesday, Trump will be very close to being a nominee and just sheer number of delegates.
So well, I think so too.
I I mean, do you see a single state she can do well in?
I guess we have Michigan coming up next, Washington, D.C., North Dakota, then Super Tuesday on March 5th.
That's coming fast.
No, I don't know what'll happen in Washington, D.C. because it's a very small Republican party.
Um, but I mean her best shot really ironically was was New Hampshire.
Uh it was an open state.
Uh it's a uh it's the most secular state in the country.
Uh she she had a genuine, she had the governor's total support.
Um, and when when she couldn't break through in New Hampshire, and of course, in a sense, uh South Carolina was always more Trump uh than Nikki Haley.
I mean, South Carolinians really like Trump.
They have a deep sense of of his toughness, and they and South Carolinians instinctively know the world is dangerous, and they want a commander-in-chief who can command.
Uh, and they think Donald Trump compared to Joe Biden is just no comparison.
I don't think there's any comparison either.
I really don't.
Well, it's it's gonna be interesting.
Uh if I had to add one thing to your list of three that the president ought to be campaigning on, it is it's certainly has to be about what's happening around the world and the lack of respect that we have.
The one thing that I really think that Donald Trump was able to accomplish, first of all, what he accomplished with the Abraham McCord's moving the the capital from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, uh his relationship with with Israel was I think the best we've ever seen in our lifetime.
Uh the bond that he created, he created an alliance with the Egyptians, the Saudis, the Jordanians, the Emirates, uh Israel in the U.S. That was uh pretty amazing, not something I thought I'd see in my lifetime.
That is now fallen apart.
And I just think that there's no world leader that likes him, meaning Biden, and I'm just like, I think th they did have a certain respect slash fear that Donald Trump meant what he said.
Yeah, and that's why I use when I say safety, I mean safety at home and safety abroad.
Uh this is a president who Will literally the morning he wins the election start to shift the balance of energy back towards the United States and within thirty days of his becoming president uh you will see a a a different world from where we are right now.
And uh, you know, and I think he will do it in a way that's designed to minimize the risk to American lives and to maximize our opponents' understanding that they no longer have freedom to run around the world and cause trouble.
I mean, the Biden administration has is beyond pathetic.
Uh collapses in Afghanistan, uh, has no ability to intimidate Iran, if anything, the Iranians intimidate them, uh, has had no ability to to truly intimidate uh the uh the Russian dictatorship.
I mean, the idea that that sanctions uh and I wrote about this way back in two thousand fourteen when when Obama did it over the invasion of of Crimea, and I just said, you know, the idea that telling uh Putin's friends they can't go to Disney World is not exactly gonna intimidate them.
No, not uh not at all.
All right, next time you're on, I do want to talk to you about uh the avortion demagoguing, which I think that it did have a big impact on the 2022 midterms and get your take on that.
Well, how can people get your column?
Uh it's at Gingrich 360, I assume.
Yeah, just go to Ging go to Gangers360.com.
Okay, it's simple.
All right, former speaker podcasts.
Uh and I've been a guest on some, uh, and I enjoy doing it.
It's we although I think it might surprise people if we start talking about anything.
Uh former Speaker of the House, New King Rich, thank you, sir, as always.
We appreciate your time and your insight.
800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
All right, let's uh let's get to our busy phones.
Uh let us say hi to Chris in New York.
Chris, hi, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Hey, Sean, it's great to be with you.
Uh, you know, me and my chuck drive and brothers and sisters have been talking, and we understand that Joe Biden is now gonna go down to the Texas border, and we've been talking.
And it just seems so disingenuous that he's gonna go down there after Governor Abbott already did the job that he was supposed to do, and it seems to us that he's gonna go down there since there's a dramatic drop in my good crossings in Texas, that he's gonna go down there to take a photo shop.
Why doesn't he go to California to Gavin Newsom's basement and see what's really going on?
He's not going to the hot spots.
He's going to where Governor Abbott already did the job that he was supposed to have done.
And now is he going down there to take credit with a combined effort of the Biden administration, which is a lie.
Biden administration didn't do anything to help Governor Abbott.
And we as truck drivers have been talking, and we think that it's just a just like East Palestine, Sean.
Yeah.
Well too little, too late.
That's Joe's, but he had plenty of time to hang out on the beach where he struggles to even move his stupid beach chair around.
Uh you can't you just can't make this up.
Look, this is the big lie that infuriates me the most.
Now uh it uh it bothers the hell out of me, knowing what we all know now.
I never once spoke to my brother, my son Hunter, or anybody for that matter, about their foreign business deals.
That's been a lie.
Uh the lie that the administration puts out, Joe Biden gets gets more done in an hour than the average person does in a in a day.
Uh okay, let him spend an hour driving your your rig, your 18-wheeler, and let's see how well he does with that.
He's I don't think he's equipped, as I've said many times, to be a Walmart reader.
But the biggest lie has been about the border.
The border's secure, the borders closed, the borders secured at the borders closed.
His borders are won't go to the border.
Now he's going, you know, uh, you know, three years late after dealing ten million illegal unvetted Biden illegal immigrants have entered our country, many from hostile regimes, our top geopolitical foes, and his latest line is well, I've done everything I could.
I don't know why they won't help me.
He doesn't need help.
He was able to create all this chaos with the stroke of a pen in his first hundred days uh by rescinding all of the Trump policies that worked.
Well, he could use that same pen and he can implement the Trump policies that work, and he doesn't need any help from Congress.
So it's a big fat lie.
And by the way, I have an announcement tonight on Hannity about the border.
Great.
As far as we're concerned, you know, it's just one lie after another, and it's just not working for us.
And the truck drivers that actually go down to Laredo and Eagle Pass, those – My brothers and sisters that I talked to, they've seen a difference down there lately.
It has been a dramatic change.
Well, we just wondered that if the media mob's gonna go down there, and they're gonna say, well, because of the combined efforts of the Biden administration to Texas, it's not a combined effort.
And we don't want Joe Biden to take credit for what Governor Abbott has done for the decrease in migrant crossings in Texas.
He needs to go to California to Gavin Newsom's basement and see what it's really like.
And so I want to say uh all my brothers and sisters at six and ten o'clock at night.
If I get on the TV radio and say break or breaker for a Hannity Check, we're talking.
And we want to break or breaker right back at you.
And I'm gonna tell you something about you truckers, because I have friends in the trucking business.
And were it not for your for the hard work you do, and it's hard work.
I mean, being on the road over the road, day in and day out and and driving safely.
Uh if it wasn't for you guys, guess what?
Every store we go to, every shelf that uh is full would be empty.
So Americans maybe don't appreciate y'all appreciate y'all so much.
I know you've been going through a little bit of a trucking rate recession in terms of the rate for loads.
Is that coming back?
Is that getting any better?
Well, I'm gonna be honest with you, you know, the one thing that's upsetting is everybody talking about the New York boycott, and I gotta tell you something.
Truckers don't need that kind of rap.
Truckers are never gonna stop taking essential products to where they need to be.
If the truckers are gonna boycott and they're gonna say something, well we're gonna do is we're gonna go to the DC beltways, we're gonna sit in our trucks and we're gonna sit there.
And if we have a statement to make, it's because when the Trump administration was in office, a lot of my students went out and lease purchased trucks, and because of when and everybody was doing good throughout the whole Trump administration, and then Joe Biden got in office and the rates went up and the fuel prices went up.
I've got six out of my six students that bought trucks, two of them had to go back to being company drivers, and the rest lost their houses and they lost everything.
They all ha every everyone but two had to go back to being a company driver, and one actually lost his house.
So that is where the truckers are gonna be upset.
That's when the truckers have had enough.
And that's what they know.
We need the fuel price, we need Donald Trump back.
We need the truckers, we're doing fantastic.
We had money to come home.
And the other thing we're upset about is that we're supposed to pay somebody else's student loans when we couldn't afford to send our own kids.
That's you really can't make that up.
I mean, how pat how pathetic is that?
I mean, it's unreal.
We are really upset about that.
Because a lot of us couldn't send our own kids to school, and now I'm supposed to pay somebody else's tuition because more than me as a trucker.
And by the way, and he brags about violating the Supreme Court uh decision on that very issue.
Anyway, uh stay safe on the road, my friend.
Appreciate you being with us, Chris.
800-941 Sean on number if you want to be a part of the program.
Linda in Maryland next, you're on the Sean Hannity show.
Hi.
Hi, how are you?
I'm good.
Hope you're having a great week so far.
I am, I am.
It's beautiful here in Baltimore today.
Um listen, I want to talk to you about um just the difficulties that conservatives have talking on a regular basis to liberals.
I'm so far right, I make Billy Graham look a little liberal, but um and I have good friends that are liberals.
But when I try to talk to them about anything other than politics, it's fine.
But then we try to talk about politics and a wall goes up and there's hostility, and I just think we have to find a way to do this.
We have to find a common ground.
I think the main thing that is keeping us apart is obviously the different news feed we listen to.
Although a lot of my liberal friends have shut down.
They're so depressed they're not watching the news at all.
They just can't fit.
Nobody's excited about the White House.
Nobody, no matter what side you're on.
Well, I I think the simple question, or the simplest question, but considering it's impacting so many Americans, uh, over sixty percent of Americans live in paycheck to paycheck.
I gave you all the economic numbers last week than you could ever want about how bad things really are and how Biden inflation is is crushing the average American household.
Uh are you bet ask them, are you better off than you were four years ago?
Tell me, tell me how you're doing on the economy.
How's your family budget doing?
How's Biden inflation impacted you?
And then ask them, you know, what do you think about the border?
You you have eyes to see do you not see the disaster that is unfolding and has been unfolding at our southern border and and yet this guy's told us it's safe and secure?
Sounds to most folks like a crisis.
Well look it's way down now.
We've now gotten control.
Precisely that the border is closed, nor could I have been clearer and continued to be so which is the border is closed.
The United States will continue to enforce our laws and secure our border.
The border we are working to make the border more secure.
You're confident this border's secure we have a secure border in that that is a priority for any nation including ours in our administration.
We agree that uh the border is secure.
Uh do you really think this family is been involved in influence pedaling if you do you're going to support them do you think things were better under Donald Trump?
I mean if you if you get to the basics the the stuff that impacts their life I mean every state, every city, every town impacted by illegal immigration.
Do you feel safe with Joe Biden as president?
Do you really think he's up to the job to deal with the mullahs Iran and Putin and President Xi and Kim Jong un and others and just ask them and see what their answers are.
Because if they're intellectually honest and I think there will be a lot of Democrats that say we can't we can't continue down this path.
We're we're literally imploding as a country and it's happening right before our eyes and I think there's going to be a lot of people that will be swayed by the fact that he has failed so miserably and and that he's such a mess cognitively so we'll see I mean that's my hope.
I mean yeah is there are a percentage of Americans that no matter if if if Trump walked on water they would want to indict him.
Yeah those people exist too.
Yep.
I just think of Lady watch their news feed for two nights and then have them watch ours for two nights and have the discussion without the hostility we might get a little further but thank you very much for taking my call.
Thank you for calling we appreciate you checking in.
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When we come back we'll check in with our polls we'll get uh how accurate were they in the lead up to South Carolina and more as we continue and now a word from the 46th president of the United States.
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All right back to our busy phones.
John in South Carolina you're on the Sean Hannity show love my time down in your state what's going on?
Uh nothing um voted the primary Jim chickbox for Donald Trump for liking the fact that disruptor for the swamp in uh you know Washington DC hopefully we see him there again.
Um you had the Congressman last Friday talking about how the illegal immigrants, how they're flooding all these various states.
We've got conservatives leaving call uh California and New York going to Texas and Florida.
It's really disrupting the electoral college because these blue states are going to become blue.
You've got some red states should become redder, but they too have their own illegal immigrants, you know, coming in with you know Texas and whatnot.
I don't think enough is spent on that topic.
Look, I don't think there's uh enough spent on a lot of topics.
Um I do think look, if you watch Fox News, you you know because you've been shown for three years how bad it is at the border.
If you watch any of these other channels, they're not covering that part.
Which what what is that what does that say to you?
It just reinforces what I've been telling you how how abusively biased and corrupt the mob and the media is, and that's most of the media.
And you know, for them to come out with analysis as dumb as they made on Saturday night uh after Donald Trump won the primary in your home state by twenty-one points over a former sitting governor of that state.
I mean, you really can't be that dumb to believe some of the things they're saying.
But they will protect Biden the entire way.
They will be the top uh contributors to the Biden campaign.
That's what they do.
They will be nothing but state run TV and they'll hate all things Trump.
You know, if Donald Trump saved a drowning young child from the Rio Grande, they would say, you know, he did it because he's racist.
I mean, they'd figure out some way to spin it in a negative light.
There's nothing you can do that's right in their eyes.
They have no problem with the weaponization of justice now in America.
They have no problem with the failed policies of Joe.
They can't even acknowledge that this guy's a cognitive mess, and when they finally are forced to do it.
I mean, there's such pushback, fierce pushback from the White House that they go right back to attacking Trump again.
And ignoring the the obvious national security danger of not having a president that is mentally strong.
He's not.
Sure.
Sure.
Anyway, appreciate the call, man.
Joe and Elliot, Georgia.
Joe, how are you?
Glad you called, sir.
Sean, love you.
So I predict Haley will drop out after probably after she loses it in Michigan, or certainly after after Super Tuesday.
And then I think we can concentrate all our efforts on defeating Joe Biden.
And I think with your radio and television show, we'll have a landslide win, and we're down here in LJ.
We love Sean Hannity and we love America, and we're gonna we're gonna have a landslide win, and we're gonna have happy days, or as long as don't be happy days are here again, Sean.
Well, I'm hoping.
I mean, they things really actually can get worse.
That's the scary part.
I mean, four more years of sticking to the path that we're on and and democratic radicalism.
Uh I I don't know how you recover from that.
I really don't.
Especially with the CBO now projecting forty-eight trillion dollars in debt.
We're now gonna finance what a trillion dollars a year before we spend one more penny just on interest on that debt, and it's only gonna get higher.
We're spending more on on debt payments than we are on on national defense in a time of great uncertainty with war on on two continents.
A little scary.
At least to me it is, a little frightening.
And it's and all of this preventable.
Every single policy Joe has implemented, he did not have to implement.
We'd be in such better shape.
Anyway, my friend, appreciate the call.
Our toll free numbers 800-941 Sean as we continue.
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