Gingrich on Winning 2026 & The Big Choice Election
The Sean Hannity Show
Sean Hannity
4.0 • 9.9K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
In Hour 2 of The Sean Hannity Show, Sean Hannity is joined by former House Speaker Newt Gingrich for a strategic deep dive into how Republicans can defy political odds in 2026. Drawing lessons from Harry S. Truman and George H. W. Bush, Gingrich outlines a disciplined, issue-focused campaign strategy built around tax cuts, border security, and contrasting Democratic votes against Republican policy wins. Hannity frames the midterms as a defining “choice election” on voter ID, amnesty, energy independence, and national security, arguing that Republicans must nationalize the race and stay relentlessly on offense. The hour also features sharp commentary on progressive rhetoric, foreign policy confusion from lawmakers like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the broader messaging battle ahead. With calls from across the country, Hannity emphasizes that 2026 will determine whether the Trump agenda advances—or is dismantled.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.3 | Hour to Sean Hannity Show, toll-free, our numbers, 800, 941. |
| 0:08.1 | Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, I am looking at November as the most important |
| 0:14.6 | midterms in our lifetime. |
| 0:16.7 | One of the things I've always loved about my dear friend, Newt Gingrich, former speaker |
| 0:19.9 | of the house, best-selling author, is in his heart of hearts. |
| 0:23.5 | He's a professor and he's a historian. |
| 0:26.0 | And he wrote an incredible piece. |
| 0:27.9 | We're going to put it up on Hannity.com. |
| 0:30.0 | We'll put it on social media as well. |
| 0:32.3 | How Republicans must study Truman and Bush, there are clear principles for winning underdog campaigns against |
| 0:39.7 | seemingly impossible odds. Anyway, Mr. Speaker, great to have you back. I'll let you explain |
| 0:46.7 | your article in detail because I would never do it justice, but I read it start to finish and I |
| 0:52.3 | took a lot out of it. |
| 0:55.3 | Well, listen, I'm flattered. |
| 0:59.5 | I was sitting around one day trying to figure out how to say to Republicans. |
| 1:02.9 | First of all, I don't care what the polls say. |
| 1:05.1 | I don't care what the news media says. |
| 1:07.8 | We have a thing called campaigns. |
| 1:15.9 | And I was aware of it because, and lost twice, I came back the third time. And on Labor Day, after five and a half years of campaigning, I was behind 51-37. And I was going to be |
| 1:23.2 | out of politics forever got in it. And I luckily had a guy who, Bob Weed, who understood politics and said, look, we have |
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