Newt Gingrich on Sarah Huckabee Sanders State of the Union response:
- I’ve seen numerous State of the Union responses over the years. It is a difficult job because the president has the pageantry of the U.S. House Chamber – and a thousand-plus member audience. For an hour or more (and in some cases a lot more) the president is the dominant figure in American politics and government. The State of the Union offers the president an opportunity to present a virtually unchallenged case about his version of reality.
- Few responses can match the impact because the individual giving the response typically seems smaller and less important than the president.
- Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders overcame all those challenges and was amazingly dominant, clear, and convincing. When it was over, I felt that I had just heard the clearest case for our civilization and freedom since Ronald Reagan’s “A Time for Choosing,” speech in October 1964.
