Gingrich calls Biden ‘weak’ but acknowledges ‘enormous power’ of incumbents in primaries
by Jared Gans - 04/16/23 7:00 AM ET
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) said President Biden is a “weak” commander-in-chief but acknowledged the “enormous power” of incumbent presidents to win a nomination when they run for reelection.
Gingrich told radio talk show host John Catsimatidis on his radio show, “The Cats Roundtable,” on WABC 770 AM in an interview that incumbents are difficult to defeat for renomination by their party, but he argued that Biden is causing the United States to not be trusted in the world.
“When you’re a very weak President, who doesn’t understand that we have real enemies, and doesn’t understand the requirements of real stakes, the world begins to realize that the United States is very unreliable,” he said.
Gingrich pointed to the “chaos” of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, in which the Taliban was able to take over the country within days in August 2021, as an example of U.S. weakness.
But he also pointed to historical examples of challengers not being able to upset sitting presidents for the nomination.
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