Watch the video above as Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich celebrates Trump, who he says will restore America to its more conservative and patriotic roots.
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The following is an excerpt from the above video:
The nomination of Donald J. Trump to be the Republican candidate for president is a remarkable historic moment. Remember, in June 2015, when he and Melania came down from that long escalator, he’d never run for office, not for anything, not dog catcher, state legislator, anything. And he had 22 good Republican opponents. And he beat all of them.
And then he had Hillary Clinton, who was part of the most successful Democratic political team up to that point. And he beat her. He became president, had a very tumultuous four years, with large parts of the establishment, including the FBI, and the intelligence community, and almost all the news media attacking him every single day. He lost very narrowly in a period when COVID had dominated and changed almost everything. And people thought he was gone.
He slowly, steadily, relentlessly kept working, and began making a comeback. And it was an amazing process. He’s been in all 50 states, he has recruited people everywhere. And he won the Republican nomination decisively and early. He now stands astride his party in a historic way, matched by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln, Andrew Jackson, Thomas Jefferson, but not many other people.
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