Posted on 02/21/2021 11:31:04 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Former President Donald Trump is virtually untouchable in the Republican Party even after leaving office last month, said former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
“What’s very striking is that President Trump still has such enormous reach in the party that nobody can fight him,” Gingrich said on WABC 770 AM in New York on Sunday. “You can complain about him. You can criticize him. But McConnell can’t possibly fight Trump. He doesn’t have a big enough base,” he said, referring to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).
Gingrich added that the spat over Trump in the GOP is “also a reminder that there is an establishment insider party that sits around at cocktail parties in Washington, and then there’s this huge country outside of Washington.”
“That country in 2015, by about 2-1, did not like the Republican leadership in the Congress. That was the forerunner of us ending up with Trump as a presidential nominee,” said Gingrich. “McCarthy has been much smarter as the House Republican leader to recognize his ability to get the extra seats [to win the House] rests almost entirely on working with Trump, not picking a fight with him,” he said, referring to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.).
Gingrich was seemingly referring to critical statements made by both Trump and McConnell, the Senate GOP leader, about one another in recent days. McConnell, on the floor of the Senate and in an opinion article, panned Trump’s Jan. 6 remarks and suggested that the former president could face civil or criminal prosecution, although McConnell didn’t vote to convict him.
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Sad. He won the election and we have to wait 4 years for him to run again. They are going to try the same steal again unless either things are changed or the steal is brought out for all to see.
That's why Soviet America is going after President Trump's Base and Supporters with the Soviet America Show Trials.
Yep, 75 million Vast RW Conspirator, White Supremacist, Counter-revolutionary, Domestic Terrorists.
McConnell made a fool of himself.
Americans better WISE UP/
Key swamp demons were making fortunes when they allowed US companies in a number of industries including pharma, computer; and electrical as well metal fabrication components even bicycles relocate their factories in China . To the point where China was our sole supplier.
Shipped here by rats and rinos who owned the boats like McConnell and Finestein.
The money the CCP has now comes from US .If we play our Chinese checkers right we can really turn things around for the better not only here but in China as well.Check out this recent posting in Free Republic.com which the MSM and social venues will spike; http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3890312/posts. will be stopped by Biden and hailed by Walmart http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3920123/posts
And THAT is the TRUTH.
The GOPe and all these media sites keep dripping “omg, Trump still runs the GOP,omg he can direct them to do anything, etc etc etc.
If Our President think he can drain the swamp from the outside can he first ask us on FR what his odds are of getting one red penny to have his endorsed candidates get close to being allowed to do anything except sharpen pencils.
Has he noone that actually allows him to read Conservative sites.????
Hot tip Mr President, you want to solicate donations, Dont try sending out anything that has the GOP name on it.
Blessings
Yertle don’t want to fight Trump, all he cares about is keeping the $$ flowing from his Chinese connections.
Gingrich is one of the few long time Republicans who has not gone moon bat crazy with TDS.
Second greatest night in my political experience was watching the returns come in through out the early morning in 1994.
Don’t forget deplorable.
It’s time now to broadcast the stark differences between the Trump and Biden policies and vision. The public must see on a daily basis what Biden is doing the damage the country.
“McConnell can’t possibly fight Trump. He doesn’t have a big enough base,”
Trump IS the base. The rest are fleas.
Agree. I know a lot of people here don’t like Newt, but the dude is one of the smartest and most articulate conservative minds around.
McConnell is a worthless politician.
Trump is a Leader
-and becoming more so as time passes.
For sure. The more sh*t they throw at him the more singularly heroic he is.
Agreed.
If you had to bet next weeks paycheck on something would you actually bet that the rickety pathetic Biden administration will last four years? Its only been 4 weeks and people are sick of it. The wheels are already falling off. Think of what it will be like in 4 more weeks.
Agreed and the Vp is already taking the calls biden should be taking. He won’t make the year.
Nobody can fight Trump and WIN, what the headline should say.
Donald Trump does not lose. Either he wins, or he has a learning experience and arranges to make his counter punches accordingly. Some may call that “failure”, but one man and an idea have been ultimately successful innumerable times in the past.
Oh, his rivals may have short-time tactical “victories”, but Trump is playing 3-D chess while they play checkers or even tiddlywinks.
Trump tried very hard to fulfill every promise he made. It’s been a month and already China Joe is backpedaling at hyper speed.
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