Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said on "Hannity" that Democrats are in a rage and offering "no solutions," dismissing a claim by House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y., that Republicans are "on the run." Gingrich said the left is resorting to extreme tactics in an effort to resist  and oppose Elon Musk's efforts to cut government spending.





People stand with other demonstrators during a protest of Elon Musk near a Tesla vehicle dealership, Saturday, March 8, 2025, in Decatur, Georgia. (AP Photo/Mike Stewart)

_What I saw the other night … the House Democrats were sort of zombie Democrats. They couldn't applaud anything. They couldn't applaud the president. They couldn't applaud a . They couldn't applaud a young man who wanted to go to West Point. They couldn't applaud people who were there who had lost loved ones. It was pretty bizarre. And I think that, you know, Hakeem Jeffries may think he has to say these things. He's their leader. What's he going to say? But the fact is, the Democrats currently have no solutions. They are so enraged that Trump is actually changing what, overwhelmingly, Americans believe is a corrupt system. I'll just give you one piece of data. Our America's New Majority project just had a poll come out yesterday. 82% of the American people believe the system is corrupt. Now that's dangerous. Both for the survival of freedom. But also it tells you the fact that the Democrats, who want to defend the bureaucracy and the corruption and the waste, they're going to have a big mountain to climb come 2026._





Democrats protest with signs as President Donald Trump addresses a joint session of Congress in the Capitol on March 4, 2025. (Ricky Carioti/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Gingrich went on to recall that when he was House speaker in 1996, he and other Republicans applauded then-President Bill Clinton.

**GINGRICH:** _Look, I had the opposite experience. I was the speaker of the House, sitting behind Bill Clinton when he got up in '96 and said, the era of big government is over. Now, I had to stand up and applaud. I mean, how can you not applaud that if you're conservative? You're right. And so, all that and all the years I went – whether it was Reagan, Carter, George H.W., Clinton – and all the time I went, I don't remember Republicans ever failing to stand for the president because we're standing for the office. We're not standing for the individual. We're standing for the elected official of the American people. And I think to not do that, begins to show an alienation that's very dangerous._





President Donald Trump reacts after addressing a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol on March 4, 2025. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

"But if you ask Democrats how they think they are going to come back, there is a debate about, you know, within the party, do you fight on every front or do you focus on the economic issues? And I think most Democrats believe their best chance of kind of getting a second look from the public in 2025 is this debate over the budget," Brownstein argued.

Brownstein argued that the Democratic Party could link the argument that the GOP will be cutting Medicaid to fund tax cuts for the wealthy to the budget, and that it might be their best strategy in 2025.

_Fox News' Hanna Panreck contributed to this report._
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