Posted on 04/30/2016 7:14:51 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
With a #NeverTrump hashtag and a growing list of high-profile people and groups declaring that they will never support Donald Trump as the nominee of the Republican Party, the effort to block Trump from winning the nomination is gaining force. But former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday previewed what he said will be the single most effective argument for strong-arming anti-Trump Republicans back into the fold if he is the nominee.
"You are either going to elect Hillary Clinton who will, I think, be the most corrupt president in American history, or you're going to help elect Donald Trump," Gingrich told Fox News Tuesday morning. "There's no middle ground. You can't say virtuously, 'Oh, I'm going to be neutral.' If you're neutral, you're helping elect Hillary Clinton."
Running through a list of Republican objections to Clinton — including foreign policy, Supreme Court picks, her use of a private email server for sensitive State Department communications, and alleged corruption within the Clinton Foundation — Gingrich said, "It's a moral case. A citizen who does not actively support the Republican candidate is, in effect, helping to elect Hillary Clinton. I don't think very many of these folks in the end are going to help elect Hillary Clinton."
And while he declined to endorse Trump, saying that he would support whomever the party nominates, Gingrich was not sparing with praise, either, predicting a huge Trump landslide in toda'’s Super Tuesday primaries.
"Trump will tower over all of them," he said. "The scale of his victories from Massachusetts and Vermont, all the way across to Alaska, is going to be pretty stunning."
He continued, "That poses, for the Republican establishment, a very big challenge. For the next few weeks, there's going to be a frenzy to try to stop him. I don't think the frenzy will work, and if it doesn't, then both Trump and the Republican leadership, the traditional leadership, face a big decision: the party get beaten badly, or do they want to turn into a Reagan campaign like 1980 and have the party win a stunning victory? There's no middle ground here."
Gingrich defended Trump against claims that he is not a real conservative – a key talking point for other candidates, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Cruz, on Monday, described Trump as "a New York City liberal who has supported liberal policies, who agrees with Hillary Clinton on issue after issue after issue."
While Trump is "not a traditional conservative," Gingrich conceded, he is "an anti-left, anti-political correctness, anti-stupidity American nationalist, and he applies those four basic principles to try and figure out where he's going and what he's going to do. Sometimes that makes him complicated for conservatives because they have these cookie cutters – you are for this, you're not for that."
He said, "I think I have pretty good credentials as a conservative, but I also think we're at a historic moment when 70 percent of the voters in the last national poll favored Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and Dr. Ben Carson. Seventy percent. Now that says that the Republican Party base is saying to its so-called leadership, 'you're not leading the way we want you to.' And by better than two-to-one, they're picking outsiders over insiders.
No doubt the irony is lost on Newtbots.
Many of the GOPES will be voting for Hillary and doing whatever they can to undermine Trump.
The Cheap Labor Express simply cannot allow the citizens to elect a President who enforces the laws and borders.
Latest presidential poll shows Donald Trump beating Hillary Clinton in head-to-head contest, Trump taking 70% of the electoral votes
The latest 2016 presidential poll has Donald Trump destroying Hitlery Clinton in a head-to-head matchup, 375 electoral votes to Hitlery’s 163. That is an astonishing 70% to 30%, and is very good news if you are a Donald Trump supporter…. and I am!
From Dmitri Voltova, prntly.com
Based on an average of the RCP (Real Clear Politics) polling data from all the states and all the “head to head” matchups between Donald Trump (by far the winner of the GOP) and Hillary Clinton (The winner of the Democratic Party) shows bad news for the Democrats.
Clinton is losing handily in all the swing states, and is even losing Democrat strongholds of Maryland, Connecticut, and Oregon.
According to many polls, and the averages, Clinton cannot even hold on to California and New York without a major fight. On the bright side for the Democrat party, they make gains in the south as Obama is now off the ticket.
Trump would defeat Hillary Clinton by 5 percentage points nationwide: getting 52% and Clinton gathering 47% (presuming the pollsters are citing the popular vote)
http://powderedwigsociety.com/trump-kills-hitlery-in-head-to-head-matchup/
“You are either going to elect Hillary Clinton who will, I think, be the most corrupt president in American history, or you’re going to help elect Donald Trump...”
Bingo.
I apologize. Please disregard the above poll: conducted last October
I wonder if there is black mail component with some house republicans that say never trump...I just remember Hillary’s aid was caught with house and senate FBI files in 1989 just a couple months after getting into the white house
Nowhere in the article does Newt say Cruz is finished (this article is based on a Tuesday morning interview, so nothing new here). Everything Newt says is based on if Trump is the nominee and runs against Hillary.
The level of low-rent blog that people are using as sources for posts on FR is absolutely pathetic. These blogs have no journalistic integrity whatsoever and are full of lies and misdirection.
For the moment though as you read the post, NEWT IS NOT ENDORSING TRUMP.
My gut tells me the fix is in further down the road to take out Trump.
There’s a lot of stink over the Arizona delegates selected today since most of them are not Trump supporters.
I understand the Trump is talking about a lawsuit.
Gingrich is spot on.
I have confidence Trump will win, but what I really want is the type of win that will TOTALLY destroy the GOPe.
I want the Letterman Jacket guys to be in Chess Club, with no dates.
Or less than the Chess Club.
Gingrich, par usual, nails it! Wish he had learned to keep his zipper up. He was Presidential timber at one time. Hopefully, he’ll accept a significant advisor role in the Trump administration.
It’s high time something is done about the 47%.
Surely you see the irony of thinking a billionaire hotel owner is against the “cheap labor express”, right?
How long do you have to wait after a zipper violation to be considered presidential timber again?
“Nowhere in the article does Newt say Cruz is finished....”
I’ll help you out: Cruz is finished.
~~Go Trump, GO!~~ ~~Go Trump, GO!~~ ~~Go Trump, GO!~~
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“”You are either going to elect Hillary Clinton who will, I think, be the most corrupt president in American history, or you’re going to help elect Donald Trump,” Gingrich told Fox News Tuesday morning. “There’s no middle ground. You can’t say virtuously, ‘Oh, I’m going to be neutral.’ If you’re neutral, you’re helping elect Hillary Clinton.” “
Well said. I hope people are listening and thinking about what Newt said.
And thanks for posting this article — I hope it will help many here to wake up and put this election in context.
It’s high time something is done about the 47%.
Unfortunately, they’re probably at around 52% now.
Newt would be a good Chief of Staff for President Trump
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