Former President Trump stunned the American political world on Monday with what could be a near-record victory in the Iowa caucuses.
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives newt gingrichThe former president, who once represented the key battleground state of Georgia, said Trump's victory came despite all the efforts of the mainstream media and predictions of a crushing defeat.
”[D]Despite all the lawsuits, despite all the efforts to defeat Trump, the people of Iowa stood up and said, 'No, he's our candidate,'” Gingrich told “Hannity.” I added it.
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“He's a candidate. Get over it — he's a candidate. He's going to win the nomination. The press doesn't want to say that, because somehow they're saying, 'We're going to stage this travesty. We need to advertise, “Please watch us while you wait.''
The former top House Republican from 1995 to 1999 argued there was no longer a viable path for a “No. 2” candidate.
”[Y]You can be the first “irrelevant” or the second “irrelevant” or the third “irrelevant,” but no one is second. [Trump] If you look at the whole country, you will have total control over it. ”
He called the former president not just a presidential candidate but a leader of an anti-establishment national political movement.
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Gingrich also pointed out that Iowa, now considered a clear red state, was once a very swing state. Former President Barack Obama was the last Democrat to win the state, and the last Democratic senator, Tom Harkin, left the state in 2015.
The former speaker credited Trump, who defeated both Hillary Clinton and President Biden in the recent Hawkeye State general election, with helping make that happen.
Fox News chief political analyst Britt Hume said Monday that Trump's large margin of victory proves his “enduring appeal” to Republican voters.
He said that according to Fox News Voter Analysis polling, Republican voters want a political “upheaval” from the status quo, and the person they think is best suited to bring it about is Trump. Ta.
Mr. Hume added that caucus participants who supported Mr. Trump likely voted in part based on their memories of America before Mr. Biden's term.
“I think a lot of the strength of his appeal is based on people's memories of the situation before coronavirus, when he was president. They remember the economy and how it was booming.” he said. “They even remember the fact that we were not in the war and were indirectly funding wars overseas that they knew about.”
“President Biden continually points out the fact that recent job growth has been great and is happening. And the economy continues to grow, and it certainly is. But under President Biden, And the level of inflation that has prevailed for so long has worsened people's views about the economy.”
As such, he said on “Jesse Watters Prime Time,” millions of Americans wish the country were in the predicament it was in before the election of the incumbent president. .
After the caucuses were called en masse by Trump, Fox News host Sean Hannity said the former president “continues to defy all conventional political gravity.”
“You would normally think that if someone was arrested or indicted, the poll numbers would go down,” he says.
“In each case, they went up. And I wonder if it went that far. Because this started the day he and Melania Trump went down that escalator, and at the end of the day, lies and conspiracy theories. Because it was an escalator that led to three years of what turned out to be only spread by “fake news…'' Hannity said.
“They were all wrong, and I think that in some bizarre way they co-opted a guy like Donald Trump and actually made him into a victim,” the host continued. He added that some people may support him simply for that fact. They consider his ongoing surveillance for nearly a decade to be abusive and “fundamentally unfair.”
Former George W. It's the disparity between them.” [news] Mainstream media reporters. ”
Fleischer said part of President Trump's appeal to people in the former category is likely due to the former president's understanding of their daily lives and living conditions, whereas mainstream media He characterized it as an “elite bubble'' of politically liberal people parachuting into the area. He travels to Central America, interviews residents at key points on his itinerary, and then leaves without giving much thought to those people.
“Of course, the vast majority are those types of Americans who aren't college-educated Democratic reporters. That's why they missed the news in 2016. That's why some people are still rooting for Democrats to lose. I think there are so many people out there that Donald Trump is out of touch with vast swathes of this country,'' Fleischer said.
“To his credit, Donald Trump intuitively connects with them, and we're seeing that tonight on the ground in Iowa. It’s truly amazing.”
But Fleischer added that New Hampshire, the next state on the political calendar, has a much different Republican electorate than Iowa. He said New England, like its blue neighbors, is a particularly moderate state, which could give candidates like Nikki Haley some advantage.
“But Haley's problem based on tonight's results is she has to defeat the conservatives. [as a voting bloc]. “She only supports liberal and moderate Republicans, and she cannot win just by having support from independents,” she said.
“There is no evidence that anyone can stand against Donald Trump, at least not in Iowa.”
