Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich shares his thoughts on the Democratic and Republicanconventions and the presidential race.
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lets bring in Newt Gingrich
this morning,
Fox NEWS, contributor,
former presidential candidate
and author of Trump and the
american Future
good morning to you, Newt
good Morning,
great to be with you
Ainsley great to be with you
exciting time for our country
Dnc kicks off this week
Rnc next week,
Bernie Sanders is going to be
speaking tonight for eight minutes
from Vermont.
The average speech is about otwo
minutes.
This is what Bernie said about.
What we can expect
couple points I will make is
that the progressive movement
has been making enormous
progress,
not only in electing candidates
to Congress,
not only in electing candidates
to state legislatures, but also
electing candidates running for
district attorney, who are
transforming criminal justice in
America.
Ainsley. When you hear a message
like that, we are going to go so
progressive.
You know Kamala Harris, look at
her voting record. She is radical
in the way that she voted.
Then Biden is an establishment
democrat
thats, the direction of this
party.
Well, look. I think that in
minus letter this week is going
to say that this will be the
high water mark before the
collapse of the Biden Harris
Ticket, which I think will clasp
collapse and probably by
election day, will resemble
George Mcgovern in nineteen. Seventy two
Rasmussen came out and said. Fifty five percent
of the country does not think
Biden will complete his first
term, which means people are
going to be looking at Harris as
a president, not a vice president.
At the same time, thirty nine percent of the
country, according to Mass Muffin
thinks Biden, has significant
cognitive problems and they just
sent out this really pathetic
thing from the Biden Harris
Campaign headquarters. That said,
these two people are ready to
lead from day one, and they have
this weird picture of Harris and
Biden in masks
both of them looking down like
they dont want to fall,
and that was their fundraiser
five bucks for it.
I didnt send it
in it gives you a flavor of
where they are going.
One other pointed by the way.
You know the police chief in
Chicago believes that precisely
the district attorneys that
Bernie Sanders is proud of is
the reason you are seeing an
explosion in crime, because all
of these George Soros funded,
hard left district attorneys
refuse to prosecute criminals,
put them pack on the street
where they go back to committing
more crimes.
What Sanders thinks is terrific
has blown up in Seattle and
Chicago and Portland.
I think its madness that these
people cannot figure out when
you put criminals back on the
street, you encourage them to
commit more crimes.
Brian talk about the election
where its at
polling do. They do show trends.
Wall Street Journal has a poll
out fifty to forty one. It turns out that
they believe Biden is winning.
However, the CNN poll, which had
trump trailing by fourteen points on
June second now has him within four on
August 12th and the 15th after
Harris was named
whats your take on that.
Well, first of all, I dont
think we know anything
and I have been through lots of
elections.
Harry Truman was down thirteen points
in September and won the
campaign. George H Dot W Bush was
down nineteen and won the campaign.
Im very, do you know Yus about
it?
I do think that the contrast
I mean think about what we are
going to see this week.
Donald Trump goes to Wisconsin,
whereby DEN is supposed to be
and Biden doesnt have the guts
to go to Milwaukee, but Trump has
the guts to go to Wisconsin
Brian good Point,
even though he is not getting
nominated this week
by the way. Remember accepting
the nomination from the White
House is something Delano
Roosevelt did.
This is not inappropriate for
the president to do this,
but I just think the contrast
you are going to see day after
day I mean Harris is so far to
the left. She is, and I wrote
a column last week saying flatly
she is an anti catholic bigot.
I listed item by item by item.
She was a disaster.
She started at fifteen percent
dropped to four before she dropped
out
dropped out before a single vote
was cast.
Why would you pick somebody to
be the vice presidential
candidate who collapsed from fifteen
to four during the primaries,
showed no ability to track black
votes?
In fact, I think there were five
Democrats getting a larger share
of the black vote than Harris
and I just think she is going to
be the worst vice presidential
nominee, since Tom Engelton had
to resign in nineteen. Seventy two for having to
have electric shock treatments
for depression.
I think she is going to be
disaster.
Steve Joe Biden talks about
every other time he has run for
president. He has only gotten one percent
of the vote,
so it is what it is.
He will do better than that
laughter,
Brian. You dont believe the
polls
Steve yeah,
fake news.
I think he will get more than
one percent
thats. All I will say
Steve Newt the number one
topic over the last forty eight hours has
been how the post office is not
prepared for the election and
the reasonable is because the
postal officials came out and
said you know there are
certain states. Where can you
request a ballot up to about forty eight
hours before election day?
We cant get it out and we cant
get it back.
Can you please explain to the
folks watching why the post
office is messed up?
It has been messed up since you
were speaker,
first of all, as the
postmaster General has tried to
say to no avail with the
national left wing media Post
office Handels enormous number
of mail at Christmas.
This is not a question about the
volume of mail.
The problem is, you have some
states New York State, for
example, they just took nine weeks
to count a congressional
primary
nine weeks
that mean they wouldnt finish,
counting the presidential
campaign until after the
constitutional requirement to
vote on the electoral college on
December 20th,
I think the postmasters concern
isnt the post office, its a
series of states so incompetent
that if you suddenly try to pile
this whole thing into two or
three or four days, they are
going to have thousands of
ballots that they throw out.
They have tremendous problems
counting them.
I think the post office can
handle the mail
now. I think maybe the states
ought to have to say you got to
have your ballot in three days
earlier or its got to be
postmarked as of election day.
All of that the post office can
handle.
This is a bad wrap. The post
office is getting
it isnt, the problem.
The problem is you start doing
what Nevada is doing where they
said they want to send out a
ballot to everybody and the Post
office came back and said: look
two hundred thousand of these names. Dont
live there.
They are not there anymore.
Why would we send a ballot to
sit at an apartment complex for
some political corona to pick it
illegally?
The problem is not voting by
mail
if its an absentee ballot. If we
know how are
perfectly legitimate,
the president has said this over
and over again
the problem is mass mailing to
people who may be dead.
I think in Michigan last week
they announced there are eight hundred and
some ballots disqualified,
because the voter was dead.
Now it is an old tradition in
Chicago. You are allowed to vote
for at least three jeerntions.
After have you died
most of the country, thats, not a
legitimate tradition,
and I think its just a remind
to people. If you want to have an
honest, accurate election, can you
do it and you can have the post
office help you do it,
they do it in Washington State
they do it in Oregon.
They know how to do
this. You go to this wide open,
send out letters to everybody,
even if they dont exist, even
if they move guy was telling
me that he left California twenty one
years ago and still gets a
ballot to vote
and thats. Why? I think the
difference
I think the post office can
handle
this im, not worried about that.
The states cant
there are a number of states
that cannot do
this. They will collapse.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-17.