CLEVELAND — Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Wednesday evening that the slew of recent terror attacks — from the Orlando, Fla., shooting in June to last week’s strike in Nice, France — in the last two months send a clear message: America is losing the war on terrorism.
“All this in just the past 37 days,” Gingrich told convention attendees, reading aloud the death tolls from seven separate terror attacks that have occurred since the beginning of June.
“We cannot let ourselves grow numb to these accumulating atrocities,” he said. “We are at war with radical Islamists, we are losing the war, and we must change course to win the war.”
Standing on stage next to his wife Callista, Gingrich warned that “the danger we face is much worse” today than nearly two decades ago, when 3,000 Americans were killed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.
“The worst-case scenario is losing an American city to terrorists armed with weapons of mass destruction,” he said. “Instead of losing 3,000 people in one morning, we could lose more than 300,000. Instead of losing two great buildings, we could lose block after block after block to a nuclear event.”
He continued, “We are sleepwalking through history as though this is all about politics. It is not. It is about our safety and our survival as a country.”
To change this, Gingrich told Americans they must vote for Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in November.
“The first step forward to safety is electing a leader who will be truthful with the American people about the realities we face,” said the top Trump ally. “Only then will we understand, support and demand the strategies required to confront this threat.”
