Gingrich Says GOP Suffers From an Echo Chamber

Newt Gingrich spoke to Steve Kornacki about why Republicans felt so confident they were going to win last year’s presidential election:

“I think conservatives in general got in the habit of talking to
themselves. I think that they in a sense got isolated into their own
little world. So our pollsters, many of whom were wrong about turnout.
No Republican pollster thought you could get 87 percent turnout in
Milwaukee. You just sort of have to say that to some extent the degree
to which we believed that the other side was kidding themselves, it
turned out in fact in the real world – this is a part of what makes
politics so fascinating – it turned out in the real world we were
kidding ourselves.”