Gingrich: ‘We are losing’ the war on terror

Published July 21, 2016 2:52am ET



CLEVELAND — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday evening that the slew of recent terror attacks — from the Orlando, Fla., shooting in June to last week’s strike in Nice, France — in the last two months send a clear message: America is losing the war on terrorism.

“All this in just the past 37 days,” Gingrich told convention attendees, reading aloud the death tolls from seven separate terror attacks that have occurred since the beginning of June.

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