off still too close to call joining me
now
former house speaker fox news
contributor newt gingrich
newt you represented georgia in the
house what happened here you think
based on what we know so far well i
think based on we know so far
the republicans did not turn out in the
numbers they needed to
the republican campaigns didn't reach
into the
latino community as effectively as
president trump had
if they had that alone might have almost
been the marginal difference
and stacey abrams and the democrats have
done an amazing job of turning out votes
uh you can argue about whether 100 of
them were totally legal
i was i thought suspicious that late in
the evening
dekalb county found another 50 000
ballots
that they just had missed somehow uh but
i think nonetheless in the big
democratic counties by the way if you'll
notice
they all wait to report until after all
the republican counties are in
so you end up with a pretty clear
understanding on the democrat side
of what it takes to win but i think i
think it is a disaster i'm
writing my newsletter at gingrich 360
today about the georgia gop
disaster and everybody who said this was
the most consequential
runoff in history was right and that
means that schumer is going to be a
majority leader
because i think frankly the precincts
that are still coming in
that is almost certainly going to be the
victor in that race
and you're going to end up in a
situation where the democrats are going
to have a real shot
at radically changing america over the
next two years
new talk about does any responsibility
fall on president trump
for i described it as doing a giant
cannonball
into the middle of all this of to borrow
steve forbes word muddying the waters
with a whole host of issues rather than
being focused on what you
what you were talking about chuck
schumer it would be
majority leader and it would change the
the look i mean it would change the
country in terms of policy but what say
you
well i'd look at a couple of things i
mean one goes all the way back to when
governor kemp
decided that he would reject
president trump's suggestion about doug
collins a
conservative congressman as the senator
he picked
keller lefler that created a level of
bad blood
so you had a civil war underway between
the governor and the president
you have in raffensberger the secretary
of state somebody who is closer to
kelly abrams i mean stacey abrams uh the
democratic organizer he's much closer to
her
than he is to any republican i know of
you end up with a situation where
the president didn't coordinate with
anybody
when he proposed two thousand dollars a
person uh and then mcconnell
decided not to bring it up in the senate
so you end up with lefleur and perdue
out there
with the republicans not delivering on
what the president had promised
that i think also hurt so and then
finally you have this
totally bizarre phone call between the
president and the secretary of state in
georgia
at a time when when president trump had
to know that roefensberger was his
mortal enemy
uh and yet he gets involved in this
hour-long call just before the election
further muddying the waters so i think
there's
between the consultants who i think ran
a terrible campaign
the failure to produce a positive
alternative a positive message
and then all the internal messes i think
there's a lot of blame to go around
but the result is for the country and
for the republican party
i think a real disaster and i think you
have to give stacey abrams a lot of
credit
she's worked very hard she's raised a
lot of money
she's built a machine and in georgia now
carried the state on election day on
november 3rd
they just carried the state for the u.s
senate i think twice by the time the
votes are counted
uh and republicans ought to look at that
very carefully and
realize this is the future unless we
learn how to beat it
that was my next question is that is
georgia now
permanently blue no
no in fact the state legislature is
overwhelmingly republican
uh warnock's probably going to be a
two-year senator
because by the time he gets to
washington he proves how radical he
really is
and if you watch what nancy pelosi has
been doing in the house
with with the rules changes i mean the
democratic party crazy enough
to outlaw mother and father which is
what they did as words and
their new house rules or to end the very
first prayer of the year
with amen and a woman which is
linguistically totally stupid
um that's going to be the same party
that's shown that schumer is going to be
leading in the senate
and warnick's going to be one of the
great cheerleaders i mean he is a
genuine legitimate radical
uh and that's an authentic position but
it's not a position very many georgians
understand yet
and i suspect he'll turn out to be a
two-year senator and will be
replaced by a republican in uh 2022.
if the as you were talking about if the
democrats uh
take control with the deciding
tie-breaking vote being kamala harris if
they take control of the senate
how far do they go again we've discussed
on this program you can do a lot just
with the simple majority
raise taxes to begin with you
deregulation but do they go as far
as many people in this country are
worried in terms of getting real
rid of the filibuster packing the court
adding
states to the union do they do they have
do they go that far do they have the
votes to do that if you look it up joe
manchin
well well i think there are two parts
one is as you said
joe manchin who has said over and over
again he's not going to do any of those
things
now you know he still survives and was
in west virginia as sort of the last
moderate democrat
and would be interesting to see if he
has the guts to stand up to his caucus
but the second is looking is going to be
up for election
in two years because they're going to
face a real decision
do i want to vote for these things and
then get beaten back home