Of leftwing agitators out protesting, sheriff david clark weighs in. Hannity starts right here right now. Welcome to on hannity. The wisconsin primaries are five days away. Tonight, brand new poll numbers out of the badger state on the republican side. Fox Business Network poll shows that senator ted cruz is leading the way. He has 42 . Donald trump is in second. He has 32 of the vote. Governor john kasich in third at 19 . As for the democrats according to the same fox Business Network poll, Bernie Sanders is on top in wisconsin with 48 . Hillary clinton second with 43 . Also tonight, brand new polls out of the state of new york. A new Quinnipiac University poll shows that donald trump has a big lead in the empire state. Hes in first place with 56 . You have senator ted cruz at 20 . Governor kasich in third with 19 . On the democratic side, the polls shows that clinton is leading with 54 in new york. Bernie sanders comes in second at 42 . Here with reaction, author of the New York Times bestseller duplicity former speaker of the house and Fox News ContributorNewt Gingrich is with us. All right. A lot has happened. I would argue that in some ways if you start with the superpac ad against melania, the trump heidi tweet, the national enquirer, it seems the republicans are off message as generally speaking as a party. You agree with that . Well, i think the two leading candidates are off message. The party is not. But the two leading candidates are. Thats what i mean. They need to get back on message. Yeah. They need to get back on message. I mean, it doesnt help trump at all to be involved in some of this stuff. Cruz has actually had a better round of it than he has and you see it in the wisconsin results so far. And, of course, kasich continues to stay positive and stay out of the mud and its probably been to his net advantage. Yeah, but on the other hand, the other stuff you had there, the people need to remember because we can get sucked in to just republican side. Bernie sanders is on a roll. And if hes five points ahead of hillary now, my guess is when they vote next week, hes going to beat here by ten or more points because his turnout is so much more intense than hers, and i also think he has a shot at beating her in new york which would be literally catastrophic from her standpoint. Look at the alaska numbers. He won 82 18 . In washington state, 73 27 . Hawaii, 70 30 . That is a mitigated massacre. Well, when i watched that evening because i was fascinated, and i thought the one place she had a shot was hawaii where the congresswoman has come out against her and obviously proved that her local popular appeal is pretty powerful. But that was the one state. The other two states you could say, well, they tend to be whiter, et cetera. Hawaii is a very, very multiethnic state. If hillary had any chance at all that weekend, she only got 30 in hawaii. Youre right, when youre down at 18 in alaska, youre down at 27 in washington state, that aint a frontrunner. Thats a person whos hanging on the ropes, i think. All right. Lets go to issue that made news, town hall, donald trump with Chris Matthews hypothetical question, hypothetical, emphasis on that, about abortion. Heres the exchange. Do you believe in punishment for abortion, yes or no, as a principle . The answer is that there has to be some form of puni isishme for the woman . Yeah. Some form. Ten cents, ten years . That i dont know. You take positions on everything else. I do take positions on everything else. Its a very complicated position. To me, that was a Hillary Clinton campaign planted question, but then they did a clarification. They put out a statement, if congress were to pass legislation making abortion illegal and the federal courts upheld the legislation or any state were permitted to ban abortion under state and federal law, the doctor or any other person performing this illegal act upon a woman would be held legally responsible, not the woman. The woman is the victim in this case as is the life in her womb. My position has not changed like ronald reagan, im prolife with exceptions. Hurt, not hurt . Well, look, of course it hurt him. It hurt him at two levels. One is it gave all the people who want to build this trump war on women theme one more round of ammunition, one more chance to go out and drive home this message, but in addition, it was a rookie mistake. Chris matthews is the mortal enemy of donald trump. Chris matthews is a hardline leftwing democrat. If youre going to go on his show, you better have been coached, you better be prepared, you better know how to say im not answering that and better be prepared to say look, thats not what im talking about. The Current Governor of maryland won a huge upset victory for republican because he talked about taxes. And they would ask him about everything else. Hed say, glad you asked that, let me tell you about taxes. He spent four months talking about taxes. I think that larry hogan whos not a big fan of trump, but hogans campaign is a pretty good model for trump to look at. He needs to get back to immigration, get back to jobs, get back to national security. Theres a report out this evening that up to 60 isis supporters are working at the brussels airport. There are more than enough occasions for him to get on his themes and his issues. He needs to elevate the campaign and, frankly, he needs to give a series of speeches like aipac where hes got a teleprompter, it is a formal speech, starting with judges. What kind of judges would he pick. If he would simply convince the conservative movement that hes going to pick scalialike judges, he would do a great deal i think to stabilize his position as the frontrunner. Yeah. As you look at the race and look at the ups and downs and the ebb and flow, youve been around this game for longer than you probably want to admit. Its hard to see into the future. If the polls are right in wisconsin, still, ted cruz needs 86 of remaining delegates. You mentioned john kasich. J john kasich needs 117 . For him to get the nomination he has to have a contested convention where hes going to have to leapfrog over two candidates that have more votes, won more states and have more delegates. Now, if that happens, dont you think the people that he leapfrogs over and their supporters are going to be pretty angry . Well, it depends. I mean, if the Trump Delegates almost get there but fail, they may decide they like kasich more than cruz. If the cruz delegates almost get there but fail, they may decide they like kasich more than they like him. You know, Abraham Lincoln was picked on the third ballot. So its not necessarily that kasichs crazy but it is unlikely. And what youre watching right now is a fascinating moment. All of the strengths that brought donald trump to this amazing position which none of us remember, all of us who criticize him and critique him whether he like him or dislike him, none of us a year ago would have imagined he is where he is today. All the strengths now are weaknesses because theyre not the characteristics of a potential president. They were the characteristics sf an insurgent candidate so hes got a big challenge. Cruz has a similar challenge. Cruz has to figure out because remember, he doesnt have to just get delegates, himself. Can he get marco rubios delegates, could he get john kasichs delegates . Is there a cruz kasich ticket in the future . Cruz has got to play his own game. As you pointed out, for example, in new york state, trump is still very, very formidable. Hes more than 21 ahead of cruz in new york state and that is a lot of delegates. This game isnt over yet. It could have been over and should have been over if trump had moved to the next level. He didnt. And as a result what do you mean by the next level . What do you mean by that . I mean, take a look at his aipac speech and take a look at the night that he was in maralago during the florida primary and did a press conference instead of a victory speech. This, by the way, is where his wife melania is exactly right. Trump, himself, said she says to him, youre not president ial. Listen to your wife. Im just saying, it wouldnt hurt for him to im laughing but a lot of people saying, yeah, i know what you mean. Go ahead. Exactly. I think if he takes his wifes advice and just slow the campaign down a little bit, slow down his tweets a lot, and go to a series of set piece pieces that communicate substance and communicate a president ial style, he would consolidate almost overnight. He should have started doing this about three weeks ago about the time that marco rubio fell out of the race was the moment for trump to pivot and begin to behave like a frontrunner. Hes still behaving like hes the insurgent and youre not going to win the nomination and the presidency as an insurgent. You got to make the transition to being a president ial candidate. Do you care who wins . Of the three remaining people, i mean, are you invested, do you think one has a better chance in a general or another or you tried this on radio and it didnt work, sean. Look i figured if i asked it a little differently i might catch you off guard. No, no. Look. First of all, i love john kasich, hes like a younger brother. We worked together for years starting in 1982. Without him we would not have balanced the federal budget for four straight years. He is a terrific governor. Theres a place in my heart for john thats real. Callista and i have become very fond of donald trump. We belong to Trump National where we golf and see we him regularly. We were with him down at maralago when he hosted the palm beach zoo Fundraising Ball a couple years ago and we like donald and were, frankly, very impressed with how far hes come. We also had dinner with cruz and we dont know him as well, but hes a very talented, very smart guy. I could enthusiastically campaign for any of these three guys and would. I frankly, have tried to offer thumb all three advice on occasions. As you point out ive been at this a long, long time. Ouch, ouch. If i can see something where i can help improve im a little bit like john madden when he was in the booth commenting rather than being down on the field coaching. So if i can help our three candidates be the best possible candidates, i want to beat Hillary Clinton. Im for any one of these guys. I was emceeing your event at the galleria in georgia the night you became speaker so i really i better be careful what i say about being at this a long time. All right. Stay right there. Well continue. More with speaker gingrich right after the break. Also coming up tonight theres going to be a contested convention, first of all. You believe thats a fact . Absolutely. Talk of a contested Republican Convention in july is picking up steam. Donald trump met earlier with the rnc today. Newt gingrich will react to that. Before we go, quick programming note, on monday, the night before the wisconsin primaries well be in milwaukee interviewing gop frontrunner donald trump. 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The storms are also bringing heavy rain and the threat of flooding as far north as ohio. This same system also spawned multiple tornadoes in oklahoma last night. Im patricia stark and now back to hannity. Theres going to be a contested convention, first of all. You believe that is a fact . Absolutely. As of today the 31st of march. Well, look, ted cruz has to win almost 90 of the delegates. Isnt going to happen. Trumps got 88 . Okay. 88 . Okay. Zero chance. Trump has to win about 60 . Hes not going to do it. And as this moves east, pennsylvania im running even with trump. In new york, now that people are beginning to hear me, were rising. It is a matter of accumulating delegates. And that was 2016 gop president ial candidate, Ohio Governor john kasich. That was earlier today. Saying there will be a contested convention come july and earlier today gop frontrunner donald trump met with the rnc in washington behind closed doors and this is what trump had to say about the meeting. It was a very good meeting. We met with Reince Priebus and the staffs and theyre very good people, very, actually, a terrific meeting i think. Its really a unity meeting. You know, were leading by a lot. We have far and away the most delegates. Millions and millions of votes more than anybody else than ted has or than kasich has. And we really i think they wanted to really discuss, you know, unity and i like discussing unity, too. All right. We continue with former speaker of the house Newt Gingrich. All right. Let me give you a hypothetical again because you keep dodging and ducking and i see your smile. But this is important, i think. How can you say im dodging and ducking . I give you honest, direct answers. Okay. Now, hypothetically, if kasich is right and its a contested convention, dont you think if he leapfrogs over cruz and trump, cruz and trump supporters, the people that voted and went to caucus, dont you think theyre going to be angry and dont we run the risk that they stay home . Well, i mean, hes not going to leap over them unless they cant get there. The way a Convention Like this operates, and weve had state conventions all over the country that do this on a regular basis. These two guys clearly have a shot at winning, and kasichs talking about a 15 chance, in my judgment, that they cant win. So you have the first ballot, lets say, trump doesnt quite get there. On the second ballot trump erodes. But cruz doesnt quite get there. Now, what kasich is hoping is as each guy loses energy, his delegates start to drift toward kasich which is a perfectly natural thing and, of course, what the establishment would love to do is now run in somebody whos never campaigned, never been in a primary, never gotten any delegates at all, and have them suddenly emerge. I dont think that will happen. Im going to draw a distinction between a brokered convention right. Where some outsider comes in and a contested fight between trump, cruz, and kasich. You have to admit there is at least a mathematical possibility. You start with trump. He is the most likely nominee. Do that, he has to be above 1,100 i think after june 7th at which point i think he can scrape together the rest. If hes below 1,100, its the door. The next one is cruz, how well does cruz keep adding delegates . Can he close the gap with trump . You know, i think wisconsin will be an example where hes probably going to get a few more delegates than trump does. Closes the gap a little bit. Trumps going to get a lot more delegates inew york. Widens the gap. So cruz has the second shot. Only if the two of them cant get there does kasich begin to be viable. But you can imagine a circumstance where each of them makes a run and cant quite get there and now the delegates are sitting on the floor of the convention, and by the way theyre starting to worry about their hotel rooms because nobody has taken the week after which is when the democrats are having their convention in philadelphia. Everybody is starting to think we need to get this thing done or ill be out in the street. That puts a very interesting emotional, psychological pressure on the convention. Yeah. So that would be tremendous ratings. You would be so happy at a commercial level with the kind of ratings that you know i dont think were going to get there. What i really would be happy about, forget ratings are important, yeah, thats part of our business. What id really be happy about is getting people in poverty out of poverty, getting people off of food stamps, getting people out of the labor force back to work, stop robbing our kids. Id like to get our borders secure. Id like our education to go back to the states. Id like an Energy Independence policy. Id Like Health Care savings accounts. Id like a president that recognizes the evil of our time which is radical islam and not give the mullahs in iran 150 billion. I have very little requestses those things, of course, you want to beat hillary and Bernie Sanders. Thats correct. Your list makes it impossible for bernie or hillary to be the person you could be happy with. Thats correct. Any one of our three guys would come close to your list in the direction theyre moving in. By the way, Reince Priebus has done an astonishing job at the Republican National committee. Its a little in the shadow now because of the president ial campaign, but he has built the largest, most sophisticated Republican National committee weve ever had. I am delighted that trump went by, and i know