Newt Gingrich: Republicans Today Would Be 'Incapable of Competing' Against Hillary Clinton in 2016

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Former House Speaker and Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said the current GOP would be "incapable of competing" against Hillary Clinton should she run in 2016.

Gingrich on NBC's "Meet the Press" called Clinton a "very formidable" person who is married to "the most popular Democrat in the country."

"If [the Republicans'] competitor in '16 is going to be Hillary Clinton, supported by Bill Clinton and presumably, a still relatively popular President Barack Obama, trying to win that will be truly the Super Bowl. And the Republican Party today is incapable of competing at that level," Gingrich said.

Gingrich also said the reason Republicans lost the White House last month was "much more than Mitt Romney."

"We didn’t blow it because of Mitt Romney, we blew it because of a party which has refused to engage the reality of American life and refused to think through what the average American needs for a better future," he said.