Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich warned Wednesday that “there’s a long tradition on the part of Democratic machines of trying to steal elections.”
Appearing on Fox News’s “Hannity” on Wednesday, host Sean Hannity noted that Mitt Romney did not get a single vote in 70-plus precincts in Philadelphia and Cleveland in the 2012 election before asking Gingrich, “Is that possible?” (RELATED: Trump: The General Election ‘Is Going To Be Rigged’ [VIDEO])
“Look, my first real presidential election in terms of being involved and paying attention was 1960 between Nixon and Kennedy. And I don’t think any historian doubts that the Democrats stole Illinois, and they stole Texas, and that was the margin election,” Gingrich replied.
“That was just straight out theft. People in Chicago who had been dead for a long time managed to still miraculously vote. People in parts of Texas where Lyndon Johnson could deliver them voted even if they no longer existed. I think there’s a long tradition on the part of Democratic machines of trying to steal elections, and that’s why what really matters is for Republicans to recognize that and organize enough Republican attorneys and Republican poll watchers to offset it,” Gingrich said as noted by Real Clear Politics.
“And this goes back to everything that Trump has been saying about Hillary,” Gingrich went on to say. “I mean if you assume that she’s a crook, as he says, if you assume that she lies as he says, why would you expect her to have an honest election?”
Gingrich concluded that Republicans need to be able to go “nose-to-nose” with the Democrats “everywhere in the country and not allow that to happen.”
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