Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich responded Monday that Presidential candidate Joe Biden-Kamala Harris will “collapse” Democratically.
“This will be the high water mark for the collapse of the Biden-Harris ticket,” Gingrich told Fox & Friends hours before the start of the Democratic National Convention.
Gingrich argued that, if all is said and done, the Democratic ticket for 2020 will be seen as equal to the offer of former presidential candidate George McGovern in 1972. The South Dakota senator lost to incumbent President Richard Nixon in a historic landslide.
“Rasmussen just came out and said that 55 percent of the country does not think Biden will complete his first term, which means people will look at Harris as a president, not as a vice president.”
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Meanwhile, a new national poll on the eve of the two major conventions of political parties indicates that Joe Biden has a smaller lead over President Trump than most other surveys on live phone operators.
The ticket of Biden and sen. California Kamala Harris tops the ticket of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence 50% -46% among registered voters in a CNN poll conducted Aug. 12-15. The 4-point advantage for the Democratic ticket is right on the margin of error of the plus or minus 4 percentage point question.
But a new ABC News / Washington Post national poll released hours later indicated that Biden held a 12-point, 53% -41% lead over the president among registered voters.
The poll – which was conducted on the same days as the CNN poll – also showed the former vice president above Trump with 10 points – 54% -44% – among likely voters.
An average of all recent national general election matchup polls compiled by Real Clear Politics shows that Biden comes with 7.5 points above Trump.
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Gingrich added that a Rasmussen survey indicated that nearly 40 percent of Americans “think Biden has cognitive problems.”
‘They just sent out this really pathetic thing from the headquarters of the Biden-Harris campaign, which said these two people are ready to be distracted from day one, and they have this weird image of Harris and Biden in masks, both look like they’re not ‘I want to fall … it just gives you a taste of where they’re going,’ “Gingrich said.
Fox News’ Paul Newshaus contributed to this report.
