Newt Gingrich’s Path Back for the GOP | Ep. 294

Democrats won the House and the Senate on Nov. 3. Republicans lost every statewide race in Texas, and Sen. Susan Collins lost in Maine. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich joins Peter Schweizer and Eric Eggers to explain what went wrong and what comes next.

Gingrich calls the midterm a performance election decided by the price of beef, gasoline, and heating oil. He traces the turn to the Iran war and argues big money lost because donors spent without strategy. His lame duck plan: one reconciliation bill, with full-year government funding, so Democrats get no shutdown leverage in 2027. He walks through the box he built with Bill Clinton to reach four balanced budgets, and why a president, a speaker, and a Senate majority leader from New York City might strike deals nobody expects.

The hosts replay Gingrich's January 2024 prediction on the Trump prosecutions, then put Rep. Robert Garcia's "pettiness" pledge in front of him. The episode closes on Gingrich's new book, America's Golden Age, and the leaders he respects in both parties.

(00:00) Democrats take the House and Senate (01:06) Gingrich: a performance election, not an ideological one (05:07) Republicans trying to be Trump (06:25) Iran, gas prices, and losing Texas (08:50) The debt, the lame duck, and one big bill (12:34) Jeffries, Miller, and three New Yorkers (16:20) Gingrich's 2024 prediction, replayed (18:03) Robert Garcia and the investigations to come (22:31) America's Golden Age (26:14) Rubio, Shapiro, and the thinkers in Congress

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