All the pundits are writing the Republican Party’s obituary in the 2026 election.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich just weighed in.

And Newt Gingrich made one bold 2026 prediction that left everyone talking.

In an interview with New York Post columnist Miranda Devine on her Pod Force One show, Gingrich predicted Republicans could score the biggest midterm election win in a generation behind President Trump’s agenda.

The average price of a gallon of gasoline is $4.39.

Those high prices are why Real Clear Politics shows Trump’s approval rating at 39.7% and Democrats holding an 8.1% lead over Republicans on the generic ballot vote for control of Congress.

Gingrich argued that if President Trump can end the Iran War and gas prices plunge to their pre-war levels, the polls will turn in the GOP’s favor. 

“If the president can get gasoline down somewhere in the $3 range and people begin to feel like it’s going to continue to come down, the Republicans will win the largest off-year election in modern times,” Gingrich stated.

Gingrich went on to explain that, with the tax and regulatory cuts that Trump locked in with the Big Beautiful Bill, the economy was set to roar in 2026, with wages rising faster than inflation.

Polls show the economy is the number one issue and that if the American people experience the benefits of the Trump agenda, they will reward voters.

“That’s my personal judgment. Partially because with the one big beautiful bill last year, the weight of economic growth is going to be so enormous. We’ll probably be at 5% or 6% growth by this fall, which means that jobs will be showing up, people will have wages rising faster than inflation, and we will really be back rolling as the arsenal of democracy,” Gingrich added.

Gingrich also maintained that the Democrat Party hadn’t learned any lessons from 2024 and was still too “weak and woke,” as evidenced by nominating James Talarico for Senate in Texas, who believes that there are six genders and God is non-binary.

“The other thing is that the Democrats really have become a party that is, I think, weak and woke and far too liberal,” Gingrich added.

Gingrich remarked that the Democratic Party suffered from a misinformation feedback loop thanks to the fake news media constantly rigging their polls to make Trump look more unpopular than he really is.

“I think as a result, they are almost like George McGovern in 1972. They are open to the potential for collapse on a scale they can’t quite imagine. Only, frankly, the liberal news media is misleading them, like the recent Washington Post poll, which had, I think, 27% Trump voters in the poll when he got 50% in the election. Now, that’s actually a disadvantage in the long run for the left because it means they’re always operating off of bad information and they don’t realize how much they’ve got to change and how much trouble they’re in,” Gingrich went on to say.

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