House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's, D-Calif., $3 trillion coronavirus relief bill was a move to "motivate" Democratic voters unmoved by Joe Biden, according to former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
"I think they were very shaken by losing the seat in California in the special election this week," Gingrich told "The Cats Roundtable" on 970 AM-N.Y. "It was the first time since 1998 that the Republicans picked up a Democratic House seat in California.
"I think she's beginning to realize that Joe Biden's not going to motivate anybody, and she has got to find some issues that will get people on her side sufficiently excited for them to go vote," Gingrich added of Pelosi.
Giving an example of his claims, Gingrich noted Pelosi's bill "mentions cannabis 68 times and jobs 52 times."
"In most of America, that will not seem like a rational balance," he told host John Catsimatidis, but it "makes sense" as a way to get some more people to turn out to vote for the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
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