donald trump is the surging candidate who the establishment wants the party to have nothing to do with. trump surge of course was sparked by comments about mexico and mexicans last month. when mexico sends its people, they re not sending their best. they re not sending you. they re not sending you. they re sending people that have lots of problems. and they re bringing those problems with us. they re bringing drugs. they re bringing crime. they re rapists and some i assume are good people. those comments obviously sparked controversy. trump wouldn t back down in the face of that controversy. a big chunk of the republican base as a result rallied behind him. that s how he surged over the last month in this race. this was tricky for the republican establishment to handle this as it happened. they didn t like trump going out there and saying all of this, but they also couldn t really fight him when it came to the issue of immigration.
that newt was bad news and they listened. that was the end of the gingrich surge. that s the formula. that s how the republican establishment takes down an insurgent candidate that rockets to the top of the polls but who the establishment absolutely doesn t want the party to nominate. and now this brings us to donald trump because donald trump is playing that role. donald trump is the surging candidate who the establishment wants the party to have nothing to do with. trump surge of course was sparked by comments about mexico and mexicans last month. when mexico sends its people they re not sending their best. they re not sending you. they re not sending you. they re sending people that have lots of problems. and they re bringing those problems with us. they re bringing drugs. they re bringing crime. they re rapists and some i assume are good people. those comments obviously
bob dole giving romney campaign a statement about just how bad gingrich would be for the party if he was nominated. this was a statement that the conservative national review said the romney campaign then passed along to them. bob dole wrote back then. i have not been critical of newt gingrich but it s now time to take a stand before it is too late. all of this, all of this activity against newt gingrich was effective. it was brutally effective. republican voters heard republican voices. voices they trust telling them that newt was bad news and they listened. that was the end of the gingrich surge. that s the formula. that s how the republican establishment takes down an insurgent candidate that rockets to the top of the polls but who the establishment absolutely doesn t want the party to nominate. and now this brings us to donald trump because donald trump is playing that role.
depression. not a recession, not a downturn, the great depression. now he is taking increase for the what is striking he is running to clinton record. this is what hillary clinton ran on. to some degree, he should be running on it, welfare reform, he had a hand in shaping. he didn t, he did not have a huge hand in that at all, the senate led that drive. gingrich cannot have a role, he likes to pick and choose what he claims credit for. and bill clinton, back in the first gingrich surge was trying to correct the record on that. but being grandiose has not been a problem for newt. let us not for get that his ethics problems hit, on stepping
news. the winner in south carolina was barack obama, a strategist, and this plays perfectly into his hands. we ve prolonged the process and that s good news for the president. newt is absolutely brilliant. he has 100 ideas. 97 are real good. the other three will blow up the world. look for other party leaders to inoculate against a gingrich surge. newt means losing 45 states. it would be a catastrophe for the country. that sums up the establishment view as newt gingrich as the nominee. well, the establishment is right to be worried about a gingrich nomination, because a gingrich nomination means we will change things and make the establishment very uncomfortable and demand change and real knowledge about where hundreds of billions of dollars have gone. if you look at a lot of these guys, they have really good reason to worry about an honest,