INTERVIEW | Newt Gingrich Goes Behind the Scenes of 'Republican Revolution'

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🗓️ 20 June 2023

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The Republican “Contract With America” is arguably one of the most influential political documents in recent history. In 1994, then-Reps. Newt Gingrich of Georgia and Dick Armey of Texas drafted the Contract With America, rallying Republicans around key policy priorities ahead of that year's midterm elections. Gingrich credits the document with leading to Republicans' historic House takeover. “To show you how historic it was, there's a 40-year period when there [was] no Republican majority,” says Gingrich, who became speaker of the House. The momentum continued, and Republicans “held the House for 12 years, but what was important was, when we lost it in 2006, Republicans knew they could be a majority,” the former Georgia lawmaker says. In his new book, “March to the Majority: The Real Story of the Republican Revolution,” Gingrich explains how the Contract With America fundamentally changed the Republican Party. He also shares stories about President Ronald Reagan and weighs in on the current political climate. Enjoy the show! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think when the day we won, there weren't probably six members of the House who thought
0:04.2	we'd be a majority, because it seemed inconceivable.
0:08.2	We picked up 54 seats that day.
0:16.2	This is the Daily Central Podcast for Tuesday, June 20, I'm Virginia Allen, and that was former
0:21.5	House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
0:24.0	The year was 1994, and Republicans had not held the majority in the House of Representatives
0:30.0	for 40 years.
0:31.8	Congressman Newt Gingrich and Dick Army decided that conservatives needed a roadmap to showcase
0:38.0	their policy priorities, so they wrote the contract with America.
0:43.4	According to Newt Gingrich, that document revolutionized the Republican Party.
0:49.2	Which has just released a brand new book March to the majority, detailing how Republicans
0:54.9	use the momentum from the contract with America to revolutionize their party.
1:00.6	He joins us on the show today, not only to talk about the book, but to share some unique
1:04.8	stories about President Ronald Reagan, and also to take some time to discuss the current
1:09.8	political climate, and whether the Republican Revolution that he describes in the book
1:15.0	is still going on today.
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