Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) expressed his wish on Wednesday that former President Trump would give speeches in bigger cities to appeal to supporters of President Biden.
Gingrich was responding to Fox News host Sean Hannity, who mentioned that the current president is losing supporters “in massive numbers.” Hannity saw this as an “opportunity” for Trump to connect with them.
When asked how Trump could attract them, Gingrich suggested that Trump should travel to big cities to present his arguments.
“Well, this may surprise you, I think that the country wants ideas more than anger. I think that the country wants to see a presidential candidate in the big cities,” he said on Fox News’ “Hannity.”
“I hope that Trump will plan for seven or eight or nine speeches from Philadelphia to Baltimore, to New York, to Boston, to Chicago, to San Francisco,” the former lawmaker added.
Many of the bigger cities in the U.S. are led by Democrats and tend to lean Democratic in presidential elections. Gingrich suggested that Trump could pick up some votes in some of them, noting that San Francisco voters were in favor of requiring drug testing for those who were getting welfare, adding “That’s a big shift.”
“And I think there’s a country out there that would love to have a presidential candidate who is unifying, visionary, when he ought to ally himself for example, with Elon Musk, and lay out a space program for the next decade that would inspire every young American to believe they had a great dynamic future,” he said.
He also signaled that Trump could attract young voters, Black voters, Latino Americans and Asian Americans if he is “positive and aggressive” and goes “everywhere.”
According to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ national polling average, Trump is leading Biden by 1 percentage point with 44.5 percent of support.
