Newt Gingrich: Trump Will Break the Left with a Midterm Victory
Pod Force One
New York Post
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🗓️ 27 May 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Republicans will win the largest off-year election in modern times. |
| 0:04.7 | People don't vote to thank you for what you did last year. |
| 0:07.9 | People vote because what you say you'll do for him next year. |
| 0:10.7 | With two more years, he will have driven the change in deep enough, and he will have broken |
| 0:16.0 | the left. |
| 0:18.4 | Joining me today on Podforce One is the former Speaker, Newt Gingrich, who I would say, without |
| 0:24.7 | doubt, is probably the most consequential Republican strategist in the modern era. |
| 0:31.7 | And you, of course, are famous as the former Speaker of the House, having been the architect of the Republican |
| 0:39.6 | Revolution that ended for decades of Democrat rule. You balanced budgets and you were hugely |
| 0:46.8 | successful in a way that hadn't been done and gave Republicans, I think, hoped for the future. |
| 0:54.1 | So now you look, 30 years later. been done and gave Republicans, I think, hope for the future. |
| 0:54.9 | So now you look 30 years later, what is it? |
| 0:59.1 | No, yeah, 30 years later. |
| 1:02.2 | And you see the midterms looming. |
| 1:04.2 | You see a president, President Trump, who's in the middle of a war in Iran. |
| 1:09.4 | You see gas prices up. What's your outlook? Well, let me say, first of all, |
| 1:13.8 | the 30 years would be 1996, and that was the year we actually became the first re-elected Republican |
| 1:21.5 | House since 1928. Wow. So it was pretty consequential. As you point out, we then went on to balance the budget for four straight years for the only time in the last century. |
| 1:33.0 | So we were, look, I think. |
| 1:35.7 | That was no accident. |
| 1:36.8 | If you tell me the price of gasoline on Labor Day, I am pretty confident I can tell you about the election. |
| 1:43.8 | If the president can get gasoline down somewhere in the $3 range, and people begin to feel |
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