(THE HILL) Newt Gingrich said early Monday that Donald Trump’s debate performance should calm the storm of Republicans calling for him to step aside after the release of controversial audio from a decade ago in which the Republican presidential nominee makes lewd, sexually explicit comments about women.
When asked by Fox News’s Sean Hannity what his reaction was to the more than two-dozen Republicans calling on Trump to leave the ticket, Gingrich, a member of Trump’s inner circle, took a victory lap.
“Tonight, they have a lot of egg on their face because the guy who showed up tonight is the Republican nominee, he clearly has earned the right to be the Republican nominee,” Gingrich said early Monday morning on Fox News shortly after the second presidential debate in St. Louis ended.
