Fox News contributor Newt Gingrich shares his reaction to the first night of the RNC.
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Ainsley nice interview
good to see you
bring in Newt Gingrich, former
presidential candidate and
author of Trump and the
american Future
good morning to you Newt
good morning
quite an evening,
Ainsley im, sorry
that was quite an evening
Ainsley! Yes,
what were your takeaways
well? First of all, South
Carolina did an awful lot for
the country when you have both
Nikki Haley and TIM Scott, and
they were both extraordinary
Scotts. Closing from cotton to
Congress in one generation is
probably as good of a
repudiation of all of last
weeks. Talk about racism, as you
could ask for.
I also can say from the a
Georgia perspective having
Herschel Walker say he is known
and been friends with Donald
Trump for thirty seven years and then
Herschel is offended when people
suggest he be that close to a
racist.
I thought it was a complete
repudiation of the lefts
efforts to tar president Trump,
so I thought it was effective
overall.
Interestingly, the average
speaker this week in prime time
is about nine years younger than
the average speaker last week at
the Democratic Party,
and you saw, for example, Kim
Klacik great new candidate from
Baltimore had almost three times
as much time as AOC and used it
very effectively to take on the
corruption and failure of
liberal democrats in big cities.
So I thought it was a very
effective evening and my guess
is that independents found
themselves much more intrigued
by the future with Donald Trump
than anybody in the media
expected, and then I think,
despite the medias efforts,
this will be a very successful
convention.
Brian, you know. Whats amazing
Newt im surprised its come to
this, but you need Jim Jordan to
tell an intimate story of what
President Trump is like
one on one.
You need TIM Scott to tell a
story about what is he like away
from the cameras you need Nikki, Haley and others.
You need Nikki, Haley and others
to humanize him three years in
because channels go the opposite
way, ill equipped unable to rise
to the occasion.
Just some honest, true stories
can counter that narrative.
In fact, here is Senator TIM
Scott, who also talked about
one on one. What the president is
like.
They have talked about the
progress the economy has made
for everybody.
Listen,
President Trump has kicked
off this convention by leaning
in on the american family,
wanting them to be passionate
and to be expectant about whats
possible in our future.
A racist put does not take
opportunity zones and provide up
to seventy five dollars billion of private sector
dollars for the most distressed
people in the country.
A racist president simply does
not create seven million jobs and
make sure two thirds of those
jobs go to African Americans,
Hispanics and women,
Brian, so thats the person. You
know
thats what you write about in
your book,
so you knew the person before
he became a politician, and now
you know the President as a
president
and its a shame. It had to come
to this convention for people to
tell these stories.
Look. I think the powerful
thing is when your opponents
develop a lie and people see the
facts. They really do changes
divisively.
I think that the what I would
frankly consider a media that is
dedicated now to consistently
lying actually undermining their
own credibility,
not necessarily undermining the
presidents
very significant. In terms of
what TIM Scott has personally
committed to.
Yesterday, the Trump
Administration announced that
they are going to be moving
federal jobs and federal offices
into these opportunity zones.
That is the biggest single step
ever taken to try to begin to
rebuilded poorest parts of
american society,
and I think its an example that
Trump has actually tried to be
effective, not just sympathetic
people talk about Joe Biden is a
good person.
Well, Trump is actually getting
things done
and the record he has with
historically black colleges and
universities is better than any
president in history.
So I think you saw this,
but you also saw fascinating.
That is every day people
we have a cancer survivor
explaining that it was president
trumps intervention to make it
possible to have a choice if you
have a fatal disease, so she is
alive,
Steve, right,
thats, sort of an amazing
example of trumps ability to
change things,
not just talk about them,
Steve. You know, speaking of
talking about things. One side
is lying or really distorting
whats going on at the Nations
Post office. Regarding the
election,
Nancy Pelosi was over on another
channel,
they were talking about the post
office and all the problems over
there.
How Trump is trying to hack the
election?
She had this observation about.
Well, Mr Speaker, guys like
you,
listen,
would take annual oath to
protect and defend the
constitution from all enemies,
foreign and domestic and sadly,
the domestic enemies to our
voting system and our honoring.
Our constitution are right at
one thousand six hundred Pennsylvania Avenue with
their allies in the Congress of
the United States,
Steve okay.
So it sounds like you are the
ally to the domestic enemies of
America.
Congratulations!
Look!
There is a great book called the
madness of the crowds
and I would say that Nancy
Pelosi is a perfect example of
the madness of her crowd.
Brian, do you want to expand on
that?
She has lost her mind. Donald
Trump has pushed her over the
edge
she has been unhinged about six
months.
I wrote a paper recently
saying we are in a war between
two worlds.
I think, if you look at these
two conventions, you will see
what im talking about
Pelosi is from San Francisco, a
city which is collapsing
which, by the way Harris is
also from San Francisco.
This is a city which is
collapsing.
There is picture just put out
today of rush hour in downtown
San Francisco.
There is no one on the street.
People are moving out of the
city,
the rapid transit is going broke
because there are no riders,
so Pelosi comes from a rich
enclave in a city which is
collapsing and she brings all of
those values to Washington
and frankly, they cant tell the
truth.
I mean what are they going to
say? Oh yeah, its terrific, that
we have produced this many
homeless,
its terrific, that the city now
pays to put you in a hotel and
give you both drugs and alcohol
to help control you.
So she lives in a fantasy world,
as does frankly Joe Biden,
and so you are seeing two
different worlds and two
different conventions and
average American is going to.
Transcript generated on 2020-08-25.