WATCH: Newt Gingrich says Trump is blowing the Democrats’ plan
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Newt Gingrich commended former President Donald Trump on his calm handling of Tuesday’s arraignment and delivering a calculated speech later that evening.
“I think the Democrats were desperate to have Trump behave in some kind of angry, hostile manner and to have him call out his supporters to re-create a sense of, you know, civil unrest or riot or whatever,” Gingrich told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham. “In that sense, I thought that Trump was amazingly disciplined. Came across exactly right. Indicated clearly that he was subordinate to the law, and that while he thought this whole indictment was an absurdity he nonetheless was not in any way going to encourage people to go outside the law.”
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The former Speaker of the House suggested Trump’s speech given from Mar-a-Lago upon his return from New York held a “tone of reasonableness” that is likely frustrating to the Democratic Party.
“I thought his speech last night was extraordinarily well-written and well-delivered,” Gingrich said. “And again, he was a tone of reasonableness, a tone of talking about the accurate history of the last couple of years, and just how bad the Left has been. So I think probably the Left tonight is a little frustrated because it may begin to sink in — they may have just guaranteed he’ll be the Republican nomination.”
“Even when Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush and others, come out and say this is wrong, you’re seeing sort of a consolidation of Trump versus a corrupt establishment,” Gingrich continued. “That could have huge implications both for the nomination and for the general election.”
Gingrich said the Democrats’ extremism is losing “normal, everyday Americans.”
“The problem they have got is, normal, everyday Americans sit down at the kitchen table, they look at their family budget, they look at the cost of gasoline, they look at the disaster on the border, they worry about crime in their neighborhood, none of those things fit with what the Democrats wish they would focus on,” the former speaker noted. “Frankly, the more calm and the more reasonable that Trump is the harder the Democrats’ problem is.”
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“That’s why I thought yesterday was a very significant moment. He didn’t rant and rave. He didn’t try to arouse his supporters. He very calmly went into court. He very calmly gave a talk that was disciplined and orderly,” Gingrich added. “If he strips away the weaknesses they want to attack, the Democrats have nothing left to campaign on.”
New polling on Wednesday showed Trump’s support growing as he moved into his biggest 2024 lead yet over President Joe Biden by a 47%-40% margin that includes women and independents.