Gingrich: 'Without one-sided assault of the news media,' Trump would be leading Clinton by 15 points

Former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Sunday blamed Republican nominee Donald Trump's falling position in the polls on media bias.

Gingrich, a top Trump surrogate, argued in an interview on ABC's "This Week" that if the media wasn't so against Trump, then he would potentially have a double digit lead over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.

"I think that without the unending one-sided assault of the news media, Trump would be beating Hillary by 15 points," Gingrich said, adding that given how against Trump the media is, it's "amazing" that a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll showed Clinton up by only four points over Trump.

"So the news media’s one-sidedness is the worst I’ve seen in my lifetime, and I’m old enough that’s a fairly long statement," Gingrich, who was born in 1943 and is 73, said.

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