Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich believes Democrats are becoming desperate as low poll numbers continue to plague President Joe Biden's reelection bid.
Gingrich cited recent head-to-head polls showing Biden losing to former President Donald Trump, who is the GOP front-runner, while speaking on Fox News's The Ingraham Angle on Tuesday.
"And I think what you are seeing on the Left is a desperation that’s literally a survival function. We have never seen this —maybe the South in 1860 — but other than that, we have never seen this level of desperation in American politics. It’s going to get worse. They have a candidate that’s hopeless. You look at Joe Biden. No, he's not going to win and they can’t get rid of him. They have a situation where their opponent is getting stronger and better and more disciplined, and I think that leads to a very explosive moment in American history."
Gingrich cited Biden's poor performance with several key Democratic voting blocs, who he said thinks Democrats are "nuts."
"I’m not quite sure how we get to where we are today because it’s hard to understand how the modern Left somehow went through this permutation, this almost mutant behavior, where they are so radically isolated they're losing African Americans, they're losing Latinos, in the most recent poll they're losing young Americans, they're losing Asian Americans. All the groups they thought they could count on thinking these guys are nuts. And they're not going to vote for them," he said.
"They know they are nuts, because of pain. Pain in terms of fentanyl and crime, pain in terms of the price of living, pain in terms of the number of immigrants crossing the border. Every time they turn around, they see an incompetent president who is clearly beyond his due date. A reasonable Democratic Party — if it still exists and it doesn’t — would insist that Joe Biden step down. There is no Democratic Party that can do that. And he is not going to step down. And, if he did, you get Kamala Harris because in their party, in their particular universe, you cannot defeat a black woman," he added.
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A New York Times/Siena College poll released earlier this month was the latest to show Trump with an outsize share of those voting groups. In the survey, Trump received 22% of the black vote when facing Biden, which would be a substantial increase from the 12% he received in 2020. The survey also showed Trump getting 42% of Hispanic voters in swing states, compared with 50% going for Biden, which would be a major increase from the 32%-65% deficit Trump had in 2020.
In a hypothetical rematch of the 2020 presidential election, Trump holds a slight lead over Biden in the RealClearPolitics national polling average but has a definitive lead in several swing states.