Episode 491: A Republican Reckoning
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
4.6 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 8 December 2022
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
On November 30th, Newt wrote a column, “Quit Underestimating President Biden”, in which he said, “conservatives’ hostility to the Biden administration on our terms tends to blind us to just how effective Biden has been on his terms.” The column went viral. It was picked up by several news outlets, shared on social media, and even liberal news talk shows discussed it. But Newt’s point was this, as Republicans, we really need think through how we are going to approach the 2024 election and why we fell short of delivering on our ‘red wave’ in November. In this episode, Newt provides his point of view on what we can learn from the 2022 midterm elections results and what it will take for Republicans to win in 2024.
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| 0:34.8 | On this episode of Newt's World I want to share with you some thinking I've been doing about |
| 0:40.1 | the road forward politically, what we should learn out of 2022. And in some ways I began that |
| 0:49.1 | process on November 30th when I wrote a column entitled Quit underestimating President Biden |
| 0:54.9 | in which I said quote, conservative hostility to the Biden administration on our terms tends to |
| 1:02.2 | blind us to just how effective Biden has been on his own terms. Now I have to tell you that I got |
| 1:09.3 | to that in part because the more I thought about the outcome the more I thought that frankly we got |
| 1:14.3 | wept. Now I'm going to share with you a number of good news. It's not like this was a disaster |
| 1:19.2 | but considering how bad the economy was considering how bad the murder rate is considering what a |
| 1:26.7 | disaster the border is we should have done better and I think it's important for us to really think |
| 1:32.4 | about it. Now because I said Quit underestimating President Biden the column went viral, |
| 1:37.8 | it was picked up by multiple news outlets shared on social media and even liberal MSNBC's Morning Joe |
| 1:45.0 | program devoted a round table discussion about it during which host and former Republican Congressman |
| 1:51.0 | Joe Scarborough said, Newt got it right. Well I think I was right in saying we underestimate Biden |
| 1:57.6 | and I hope when you're done with this podcast you'll decide I'm also right to say we need a much |
| 2:03.8 | deeper look at what went wrong and to what degree Republicans don't get what's going on. |
| 2:18.7 | Part of the reason I really want to push this is we're now talking about having various review |
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