Gingrich: ‘The Turmoil in the House Is Closer to Where the Country Is’

‘Seventy-five percent of the Gallup poll recently, 75 percent of the American people said there is widespread corruption in the United States, in the government’

WALLACE: “You’re one of big thinkers in the GOP. – (laughter) -- No, I think you are. And I want to talk about this from maybe 30,000 feet instead of from ten. We see this anti-establishment, grassroots frustration not only in this fight in Congress about who is going to control things or whether there should be as much control, but also we see it playing out in the presidential race, with the rise of Trump and Fiorina and Carson and the office holders, and their political experience almost being held as something against them. What’s going on with your party?” 
GINGRICH: “I don’t think it’s my party. I think it’s the country. Seventy-five percent of the Gallup poll recently, 75 percent of the American people said there is widespread corruption in the United States, in the government. The school superintendent in Chicago, for example, is now under investigation for taking bribes. You have George Will, obviously a pretty solid guy, an establishment figure, saying we should impeach the Internal Revenue Service commissioner. I mean, there’s this general broad sense among three out of four Americans that the system is sick, yet 60 percent of the Republican voters say they dislike the leadership in Congress, 2 percent said they strong will you approve. Two percent is a statistical error. I mean — so you’re living in a world where I would argue that the House actually — the turmoil in the House is closer to where the country is and that’s why you have — if you take Trump, Carson, Fiorina and Cruz — and Cruz is essentially an outsider — those for are 60 percent of the current Republican primary vote. “ 
WALLACE: “But I think you would agree this is happening more, whether it’s in the presidential race or in the Congress on the Republican side –“
GINGRICH: “Sure.”
WALLACE: “-- and the Democratic side –“
GINGRICH: “The Democrats currently are winning. The Democrats have courts that agree with them. The Democrats have bureaucracy that agree with them. The Democrats are in a position where they have a president who’s doing what they want. It’s natural for the Democrats to be relatively comfortable. If you are a Republican conservative, you wake up every morning furious at what you see happening and you want to know why your party is not doing a better job.”

 

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