If President Donald Trump carries the elections in Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida, he's "moving toward a very good night," and the odds are "very high" he'll defeat Democrat nominee Joe Biden, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday.
"He certainly seems from the voting pattern to be way ahead in Florida now," Gingrich said on Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "I think he is ahead in Georgia, and probably ahead in North Carolina. … if he loses any one of the three, it will be a much longer night for him."
Pennsylvania also "really matters," Gingrich said, as do Michigan and Wisconsin.
"If Minnesota, which has not voted Republican since 1976, goes for Trump, he will have a really big night," Gingrich said. "The other place would be Arizona, which is a hard-fought state. Those are the kind of places I look at and start to take notes to see how it is going."
Overall, he said, the odds are high Trump will win, and by a "bigger margin than the Pennsylvania electoral vote, so while Pennsylvania may degenerate into a fight, it probably won't be central the way Florida was back in 2000.
Gingrich also pointed to the success of Trump's rallies as compared to Biden's.
"Joe Biden, for his last stop was standing in the middle of the street, surrounded by maybe 30 people and he looked like a bad congressional candidate with no crowd," said Gingrich. "My guess is that one Trump rally in Rome, Ga., he had somewhere between 30,000 and 50,000 in a town of 36,000."
Gingrich also said that he finds the prospect of looting and violence in the nation's cities disturbing.
"I find it very disturbing that we have caved in city after city to allow barbarians and thugs to destroy things to such a degree that we're now preemptively putting up wood over the windows because we just assume that the city government can't defend itself," he said. "I think the time has come to draw a line in the sand and say you do this we'll catch you on film and we'll track you down and you are going to go to jail for a long time. We are not going to tolerate this kind of violence in a free society."
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