Gingrich: Trump must act fast or get sucked into the swamp, by Louis
Nelson, 11/13/16
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich
said Sunday that President-elect Donald Trump must “swing for the fences” in
his first year in the White House, or else risk being sucked in by the
Washington “swamp” that he has pledged to drain.
“This is a city which if you don't
shove it as hard as you can while you have momentum, it will just surround
you,”
Gingrich said on CBS’s “Face the
Nation” on Sunday morning. “I mean, the swamp doesn't want to be drained. And
the swamp will just suck you in if you let it. So he needs to have a very, very
aggressive first year.”
Gingrich said Trump must be a
“salesman” as president, loudly backing the package of proposals he will try to
enact once he assumes office.
It is especially important, Gingrich
said, that Trump seek bipartisan cooperation wherever possible and floated a
massive infrastructure project as one issue where he might find a willing ally
in incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and other Democrats.
“I think it's very important that
Trump try to have as many Democrats as possible help him do this,” the former
House speaker said. “Because one of the lessons of the Obama years is, if you
do things that are big on a purely partisan basis, they're not stable. I mean,
I think Trump wants to change America to make it great again for a generation.
Not just for eight years.”
Trump’s loss in the popular vote to
Hillary Clinton will “to some extent” prove a challenge, Gingrich said, but he
also noted that the former secretary of state’s higher overall vote total is
largely the result of her running up the score in California, where the GOP
does not compete.
The former House speaker has
previously voiced support for doing away with the Electoral College and said
Sunday that “in the long run, you want to find a way to have the whole country
represented.”
Conway: Trump will drain swamp —
but retain D.C. insiders, by Louis Nelson
Gingrich dismissed as “garbage” the
notion that Trump’s candidacy had somehow given voice to the “alt-right,” a
movement attacked often as promoting racist, misogynistic and anti-Semitic
rhetoric. Instead, Gingrich said the president-elect is “a mainstream
conservative who wants to profoundly take on the left.” He recommended that
Trump remain himself once he assumes the presidency and “the country will
organize itself around who he is.”
As for Trump’s prolific and often
bombastic Twitter account, Gingrich said: “My advice to that is to always have
an editor.” He said the social media platform, which has gotten Trump into hot
water on occasion, is a powerful means of communicating directly with the
public without having to go through a media outlet that might distort the
message he is seeking to convey.
“Donald should [keep tweeting],”
Gingrich said. “I mean, look, it's a technique for reaching 13 or 14 million
people at no cost and gets him around the New York Times.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/newt-gingrich-donald-trump-swamp-231299
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