Gingrich Says Harris Becoming President In 2023 Would Have Been Worse For Dems

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Friday that if Kamala Harris had become president in 2023, the 2024 election would have been even more disastrous for Democrats.

In “Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House,” a book set for release Tuesday, reveals that Democratic officials quietly explored the idea of having President Joe Biden step aside as early as 2023. According to The Guardian, Harris’ team even developed contingency plans in case Biden died in office.

Speaking on Varney & Company, Gingrich argued that Harris would have been such a poor president that she would have endangered the country. He added that the public’s perception of her would have sunk even lower than it was during her brief presidential campaign.

“I think it would have made it worse for them because Kamala Harris proved that she doesn’t know anything. She’s lazy, and she’s committed to the hard left,” Gingrich said. “So if we’d had a year of Kamala Harris actually in office, first of all, the dangers to America around the world would have skyrocketed because nobody would have taken her seriously. And second, the country would have been even more disgusted than it was.”

During her 2020 presidential campaign, Harris supported a range of left-wing policies, including a ban on fracking, mandatory federal gun buybacks, and the elimination of private health insurance. However, less than ten days after launching her 2024 campaign—following Biden’s July 21 announcement that he was stepping aside and endorsing her—Harris began to walk back many of those positions.

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“You know, she raised I think a billion, 500 million dollars in a 9-week period, outspent Trump by about 3 to 1 and lost because she couldn’t answer anything,” Gingrich continued. “She couldn’t go on Joe Rogan because she couldn’t possibly talk for three hours. She didn’t know anything. And if we’d had her as president for a year, I think it would have been a terrifying roller coaster.”

The Harris campaign and the Democratic Party reportedly spent nearly $1.5 billion during her 2024 presidential bid. The former vice president ultimately lost all seven battleground states, as well as the popular vote, to President Donald Trump.

Reuters reported on October 15 that the Harris campaign had considered a potential appearance on The Joe Rogan Experience as a way to strengthen her support among male voters. However, during his November 8 podcast, Rogan revealed that the campaign had requested certain topic “restrictions” and asked whether he edits his interviews—discussions that took place before the appearance ultimately fell through.

Rogan said he agreed to the campaign’s conditions regarding topics but made it clear that the episode would not be edited.

Former CNN political analyst Chris Cillizza predicted Thursday that President Biden is headed for a difficult two months, as the upcoming releases of “Fight” and “Original Sin: President Biden’s Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again” by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson are expected to cast both Biden and his inner circle in a negative light.

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“Those two books, I feel like, are going to shed a lot of light on how big this cover-up really was. Again, I’ve said repeatedly, I think this is a big scandal,” Cillizza said. “The fact that the Biden inner circle clearly knew he was diminished, they kept him from the media, they insisted to the media he was fine even while knowing he was not, what happened at the debate.”

“My sense is [“Fight”] is going to have a lot in it that is not great for Biden,” he added, before moving on to the Tapper-Thompson tome.

“That [book] is aimed at really providing an autopsy of how Biden got to the point he got, given his age and obvious erosion of his capabilities. Those two books, I feel like, are going to shed a lot of light on how big this cover-up really was,” he said. “Again, I’ve said repeatedly, I think this is a big scandal. The fact that the Biden inner circle clearly knew he was diminished, they kept him from the media, they insisted to the media he was fine even while knowing he was not, what happened at the debate.”