Americans are noticing the booming economy, but it still may be difficult for Republicans to retain control of both the House and Senate in Tuesday's midterm elections, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said.
"Off years are hard," Gingrich told Fox News' "America's Newsroom."
"We got to be a majority for the first time in 40 years in Bill Clinton’s first off-year election. So I understand how tough it is to be the incumbent presidential party.”
The economy, he added, is the main thing that is relevant to the voters, and it may well be what's "propping up Republicans who might be in trouble on other issues...the people look at it and they go, ‘there really are more jobs. Wages really are going up. The future really looks dramatically better.’ And so there’s a bias that’s, I think, actually held the Republicans up in both House and Senate races where they might have been in much more trouble."
Gingrich also claimed voters want a "sense of safety" from threats such as the spiraling opioid crisis and MS-13 gangs, but they will not find that from Democrats, said Gingrich.
"The left continually misunderstands how dangerous things like the MS-13 gang is, how dangerous fentanyl killing people is, and so there’s a real gap in how we see the world," said Gingrich. "I think that’s why … every single Democrat in the Senate co-sponsored Dianne Feinstein’s bill for open borders, which is totally indefensible and in fact it won’t work and they can’t actually talk about it."