Gingrich Fearful November Elections Will Sink His Party
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WASHINGTON – A former House speaker, Newt Gingrich, an architect of the Republican takeover of the House in 1994, says incumbents sometimes forget they are in office to change the government, not to be changed by it.
And he is worried that the GOP is in for a bad time in the fall elections.
“When you get poll after poll telling you basically the same thing, you have to respect the right of the American people to say they want change,” Mr. Gingrich said on “Fox News Sunday.”
An AP-Ipsos poll this month found that just 30% of the public approves of the job performance of the GOP-led Congress. By a 49-33 margin, the public favored Democrats over Republicans when asked which party should control Congress. That was the largest margin the Democrats have enjoyed in AP-Ipsos polling.
Mr. Gingrich was critical of the failure of immigration legislation in the Senate to reflect what he called the nation’s desire for border control and other stringent measures. He also questioned the extent of the hurricane recovery in New Orleans.
