Newt Gingrich questions McConnell’s strategy for Republicans: ‘As bad as Pelosi’
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s strategy for success in this year’s midterms is “as bad as” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s leadership over her chamber.
Gingrich was asked on the “John Solomon Reports” Podcast about what Republicans must do to sustain their majority if they win back control of Congress in November.
“I am totally with Kevin McCarthy and with Rick Scott, both of whom have come up with positive ideas,” said Gingrich, referring to the Florida GOP senator and House minority leader, respectively.
“McCarthy wants to develop a commitment to America,” he said. “And he’s got, I think, seven different working groups. I was honored to be invited to come down to their planning session with about 180 House members.
“I was the keynote speaker and I got to listen to them working for a while. They’re so much more sophisticated than we were in ’94. It really makes me feel good to realize how much they’ve grown and learned.”
Gingrich said Scott has “had the guts” to say “you may not like all of my ideas, but at least I have ideas, what are yours?”
Scott recently ran afoul of McConnell for setting out his own legislative agenda.
Gingrich, a 2012 GOP presidential candidate, also criticized McConnell for what he consider a leadership style of: “Don’t tell anybody what you’re going to do, and then I’ll go into a room and I’ll make all the decisions.”
“I think, frankly, that’s as bad as Pelosi is,” he said.
As an example, Gingrich said when congressional leaders bring in 3,200-page bills and “only they and their staff gets to figure out what’s going on, that’s not representative government.”
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Does Mc Connell really think he’s going to be re-elected to head the Senate Republicans? I think he’s in for a big surprise…..nobody wants him in a leadership position. He’s done enough damage.
The turtle needs to go….