NEWT:
Well, first of all, I think it’s very hard to measure individual races unless you look at the difference in total amount of money. The Democrats have been remarkably good at mobilizing nationally for specific races and just simply outspending the Republicans, drowning them. But I think if you look at actual data and you know this as well as I do, Laura, if you pit a Democrat who believes who had voted against, for example, the born again alive bill and who literally refused to allow medical care for a baby that had survived an adoption and who believes in an abortion of the ninth month. And who believes in sex selective abortion, you go down the list. There are so extreme that if Republicans slow down and I personally believe that the winning formula is to be for three exemptions rape, incest and life of the mother and for about it and for 15 weeks, which is where the country is, about 75% of the country would accept that standard and would marginalize the Democrats as the kind of pro-death extremists that they really are.
NEWT:
I mean, look, the problem is and Joe DeSantis, who runs the America’s New Majority Project, just showed me some numbers on this. 57% of the country says that affordability is the biggest economic issue. 15% say jobs are. So Biden or one of his surrogates makes a speech. It’s all going well. People go and buy gasoline, which went up $0.30 in the last two weeks. They go buy food. They look at their electricity bill, which has gone up remarkably. And Dave Winston at the Winston Group had developed what he calls a presidential inflation index. That is you start the day they’re sworn in. Well, Biden is the second worst president in modern times. Only Jimmy Carter is worse than Biden. And people know that because they feel it when they try to buy a house. They feel it when they have to pay for an apartment, they feel it if they try to feed their family.
NEWT:
Absolutely. I believe, as did Reagan. Remember when when we ran in 1994 and finally won a majority for the first time in 40 years, which I outlined in my book, March to the Majority, we ran candidates everywhere. Only three candidates or only three districts in the entire country did not have a Republican candidate. We beat Rostenkowski, chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in downtown Chicago. We got the Speaker of the House for the first time since 1980 and since the 1880s in Spokane, Washington. We beat the chairman of the Judiciary Committee in the Houston suburbs. No consultant would have thought we could win those races.
NEWT:
Everywhere, spread out their resources, keep them on defense and have a positive, unifying message of a better future if we win.
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