Newt joins Fox & Friends and comments on the mail-in voting debate, the impact of progressives in Democrat Party, and the heated Antifa hearing.
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08/05/2020
NEWT:
Well, I think Hilary misses the entire point. In Nevada, for example, according to Adam Laxalt who is expert on this, they are going to mail ballots to 200,000 people who according to the post office don’t exist. They are either dead, they have moved, the address doesn’t work. 200,000 extra ballots floating around out there. You are seeing it in New York right now. Two congressional ballots six weeks after the primary they haven’t been able to announce a winner. Now, you get into that in terms of a presidential campaign, nationwide, and I think it’s — this is going to be the most disastrous election in American history at the rate at which the Democrats are trying, frankly, to set up an ability to steal it. Because I don’t think they think they can win an honest election.
NEWT:
Look, we lived through it in Florida in a very closely contested election. And it was a total mess in palm beach. A local official who did a terrible job and that was tense enough. I can imagine a circumstance at the rate the Democrats are going to try to flood the system and, by the way, this also happened in California with vote harvesting in 2018. I think there were six Republicans who had won their congressional seats on election night who lost them about two weeks later as these ballots kept coming in. So, I am very concerned. And Hans von Spakovsky who is an expert at the Heritage Foundation has 1100 cases of vote theft. I think this is a real thing. I think people need to be worried about it. And it tells you how polarized we are. There is even, you know, there is even one apparently democratic war game where they sat down and began to think through with Hillary’s campaign manager from last time. What they would do under certain circumstances basically to try to steal the election if they lost it. It, amazing things going on out there.
NEWT:
I don’t think they are in denial I think they are embracing it. I think that’s why you have Pelosi and Schumer behaving the way they do in Washington. I think that they, Schumer, for example, faces the potential of AOC running against him in the democratic primary in two years. And he is not going to move an inch to be reasonable with Donald Trump. Because he knows it will kill him in that primary. I think Pelosi knows when Biden hides in the basement it creates two vacuums, a power vacuum which Pelosi is filling, and an idea of a vacuum which AOC is filling. I think you are seeing a Democrat democratic party be transformed in front of your very eyes.
NEWT:
First of all, she a lot more coherent than he is. If he can talk as well as she talks, he could come out of the basement. I think she did a fine job and I think she is being a pretty good front for the campaign. But the fact is, on every front, that Biden whether it’s gigantic tax increases or it is killing the energy industry, or it is abandoning his lifelong commitment with the Hyde amendment on abortion and going for abortion paid by the taxpayers, every time you turn around, Biden is more and more the candidate of the hard left and I think he thinks that’s where the energy is. And I think he knows that if he was not their candidate, they would go all out to defeat him. So, he is sort of caught in a trap much like George McGovern was in 1972 where if he doesn’t do what the left wants, he is going to lose the election and, frankly, if he does what the left wants, he is probably going to lose the elections.
NEWT:
Look, I wrote a paper recently suggesting that what we are seeing is a war between two worlds. It’s not a normal presidential election. You know, the city of Minneapolis has basically now surrendered to criminals. In fact, they just put out a pamphlet for citizens on how to be mugged without endangering yourself because they don’t have a police force that can achieve anything anymore. Portland is a disaster. Seattle is a disaster. The Democrats have been consistently as I said in my book, Trump and the American Future the Democrats have been consistently pro-criminal and anti-police.
NEWT:
Well it shouldn’t. You just have to — look, if I showed you a lion and you noticed that the lions eat zebras unlike the lion king, but you know it was a lion, you would think oh it’s behaving like a lion. All of these Democrats are now basically owned by the left. They are not going to pick any fights. They are owned by people who are financed by George Soros. You look at the new wave of district attorneys who are financed by Soros, every single one of them is pro-criminal. I mean, people — it’s not sunk in yet, but we are back to the late 1960s in terms of the rising murder rates and the rising crime rates. And you she all over the country. And, of course, the propaganda machine of the left which used to be the news media is going to do everything they can to hide from it. But I think the average American is beginning to realize this stuff is dangerous. That’s why by three to one they don’t want to defund the police.
