Gingrich says Trump will be the GOP nominee and the Left is ‘terrified’

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich issued his prediction for the 2024 election, and it includes a second term for Donald Trump.

Gingrich appeared on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle Thursday and seemed confident that Trump would be the Republican nominee as he is “not a candidate but a leader of a national movement,” as Gingrich called him. The former congressman pointed to polls that have Trump as the front-runner in the race and implied that those who are some 40-plus points behind him should end their campaigns.

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“I think Trump will be the nominee. Trump will be the nominee and the question for everybody is: Do you want to see Joe Biden reelected, or do you want to help Donald Trump?” Gingrich said. “I think the Republican National Committee should cancel the future debates and say: ‘Look, we recognize the objective fact that Trump will be the nominee. We want to work with him.'”

Gingrich would also comment on the several legal cases against Trump surrounding his management of classified documents and alleged attempts to overturn the 2020 election.

“I think it tells you how terrified the Left is that they’re doing everything they can legally because they can’t do anything politically. Given the economy, given everything else that’s going on, I think the odds are very high that Trump will win the general election. And they’re going to do everything they can to stop that,” Gingrich said.

“The question now is can we stop the Justice Department in the various legal assaults and, remember, they’re not just attacking Trump. They are trying to block Robert F. Kennedy Jr., they’re trying to block the No Labels people. The Biden model is: ‘If I can keep everybody off the ballot and I have no opponent, I’ll probably win,’ which is insane. It’s so un-American.”

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Trump is facing off against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, former governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, former Texas representative Will Hurd, former Vice President Mike Pence, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), Gov. Doug Burgum (R-ND), Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), political commentator Larry Elder, businessman Perry Johnson, and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in the race to win the GOP presidential nomination.

The former president did not appear for either of the two Republican debates hosted by the RNC despite qualifying by polling and donation standards. In order to appear at the debate, candidates had to sign a loyalty pledge promising not to run as a third-party candidate should they lose the party’s nomination. Trump’s decision is seemingly leaving the door open for that possibility if he does not secure the nomination.