Voter frustration with President Joe Biden and Democrats is helping to build a tidal wave of political rejection so large it could sideline the Left for two generations, according to former GOP House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
“If we’re right,” he told Secrets, “then the scale of the defeat may resemble 1920,” when Republicans won 10 Senate seats and 63 House seats and made Warren G. Harding president in a landslide of 404 electoral votes.
“If that’s what happens, the Democrats, certainly in the House and maybe in the Senate, will be out of contention for probably two generations. They just won’t be able to claw their way back in,” he added.
Gingrich has been bullish on GOP election chances and is working with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy on an election agenda to build a Republican-plus majority.
In a new white paper shared with Secrets, he called for a “New American Majority,” writing, “Republicans have to learn to talk about a New American Majority — not a Republican majority. Plan, think, and act for the American Majority. This requires listening to and learning from a lot of people who have not been historically part of the Republican Party.”
If Biden continues to fade and the Republicans put together an agenda that wows voters, Gingrich predicted a sizable pickup in House seats. He told Secrets, “I think between 25 and 70.”
But it requires more from Republican leaders than personality politics, a case the former speaker has been making for months on his websites, American Majority Project and Gingrich 360.
“The American people are frustrated and hurting. They want a movement dedicated to practical, workable solutions that will improve their lives. They are tired of partisan politics. The New American Majority will grow by delivering better results than the Big Government Socialist-Woke Left coalition. Then it will explain the difference in results as fundamental differences in principle — not just personal capabilities,” Gingrich wrote.
“Getting to an American Tsunami requires staying positive and focusing on the cultural and political issues on which the New American Majority can agree,” he added.
“The establishment (including their propaganda media) will do everything it can to draw us into fights that distract us from the areas in which our American majority will dominate. They will also seek to focus on gossip, internal tension, or other distractions to minimize our ability to communicate with the American Majority about issues that bring us together and motivate us to win. Irrelevant or trivial noise and niche issues are the enemies of growing a majority. Clarity, consistency, and firmness of purpose are the keys to attracting, educating, and holding together a New American Majority,” he advised.
