CLEVELAND — Donald Trump can be trusted to deliver on every promise he’s made during his presidential campaign because he’s a truth-teller, House Speaker Newt Gingrich assured Republicans gathered for the second-to-last night of their convention.
“Tonight, the challenge for everyone in this hall, and everyone — Republican, Democrat, or independent — who is watching at home and knows we cannot continue on our current course, is to rise above our factions, and rise above the politics we’ve inherited to ignore the lies of the news media and the old order,” Gingrich said.
Gingrich also tried to do damage control after Ted Cruz’s non-endorsement of Trump was booed by convention attendees.
“Ted Cruz said you can vote your conscience for anyone who will uphold the Constitution this election,” Gingrich told the GOP delegation.
“This election, there’s only one candidate who will uphold the Constitution,” he said, naming Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
The longtime conservative, who was one of the first GOP leaders to get behind Trump, urged American voters to “reject the suicidal dishonesty of Hillary Clinton and her establishment allies” and stand with the Republican presidential nominee and his running mate Mike Pence.
Gingrich revealed Monday that he spent nearly three hours deliberating Trump’s vice presidential pick with the nominee himself and ultimately encouraged him to choose Pence, the Republican governor of Indiana, over himself.
“I thought that Pence was the right choice given where we are and what needs to get accomplished,” he told Time.
“Donald Trump won our party’s nomination because he is willing to tell the truth about the things that matter most [and] he has a great running mate in Mike Pence,” Gingrich said Wednesday. “They will put our safety first, and they will defend America first. We can be proud to stand with them.”
As he dove further into his speech, Gingrich turned his focus to Clinton. “Every American should be terrified at the prospect of a Hillary Clinton presidency,” he claimed.
“We cannot keep in place the people and the systems that have brought us to this point and that lie to us every single day about the threat,” Gingrich told the delegation. “So when you hear about Hillary’s dishonesty, or the emails, or taking millions from the Saudis and other Middle Eastern dictatorships — remember: this is not about politics.”
“The cost of Hillary’s dishonesty could be the loss of America as we know it,” he warned.
