The minority voters will have the consequences of the run-off elections in Georgia, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Monday.
On “Fox & Friends,” Gingrich noted that President Trump received a higher vote for Blacks and Latinos in the 2020 presidential election than in 2016, and that shift could play into who wins the Georgia races that control the party’s control of the Senate this year will determine.
“The Republican Party has consistently fared better because people who make money and work hard tend to have an increasing bias toward us and at lower taxes,” Gingrich said.
“And you have already had two dozen African-American ministers come out and attack Raphael Warnock because he was so rabidly pro-abortion and so willing to use tax money to pay for abortion. There are value issues, too. And I think you will see. that we are getting better or better with Asian, Latino and African-American voices, because it is becoming clear how radical, how high taxes and, frankly, how high unemployment the Democrats are. ‘
Gingrich, who represented Georgia’s sixth district in Atlanta in the suburbs while in Congress, explained the phenomenon of minorities moving to the suburbs in recent years. Former Republican strongholds such as Cobb County and Gwinnett County gradually grew bluer, while rural Georgia became more Republican.
“Well, it’s a fascinating demographic. What basically happened was that strong Republican voters moved further and further to small towns and communities like Dalton or like Rome, like Gainesville,” Gingrich said.
“And at the same time, people who have been plugged into downtown Atlanta because they got rich, I mean, one of the great virtues of the Trump economy was the lowest black unemployment rate in history. Getting more money, they’d like to moving the suburbs that are completely normal, ”Gingrich said.
WARNING OF LOEFFLER FOR GEORGIA RUNOFFS: ‘WE DON’T GET A SECOND CHANCE’
Meanwhile, Senator Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., Warned that democratic victories in her state’s run-off election would mean a radical agenda that would drastically change life in the US.
Both Senate seats in Georgia – and control of the chamber – will be at stake on Tuesday, as Loeffler faces Warnock, taking on Senator David Perdue, R-Ga., Jon Ossoff. With Democrats already in control of the House and the White House after the November election, Loeffler told Fox News Sunday that Democratic victories this week would result in drastic changes in Washington.
“It’s a choice, it’s a stark contrast between the freedoms – our way of life here in Georgia – or socialism, government control,” she said. “We know the agenda from the left, because Chuck Schumer told us he was going to take Georgia and then change America. And we know that radical agenda is not just high taxes, open borders, politics, government health care, he has radical candidates in this race, his agents of change. ‘
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One of those ‘agents of change’, Loeffler claimed, was her opponent Warnock, who she said did not represent the state’s values and who would ‘fundamentally change’ this country.
Elected President Joe Biden was the first Democrat in 28 years to win Georgia in a presidential race, although Republicans won more votes in both U.S. senate races, including the “jungle” race for Loeffler’s seat with nearly two dozen rivals than their Democratic. peers in November. No one broke the 50 percent threshold, but forced a run-off in both games.
Fox Page, Ronn Blitzer, contributed to this report.