Regarding Lapid's vow to restore dialogue with both sides of the aisle in Washington, he said that includes the Democratic Party's controversial new congresswomen.
Lapid said that while Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar has used unacceptable language, he would not rule out engaging with her as well.
Lapid said that if Blue and White loses the election, his alliance with Gantz would stay together, because Netanyahu's government would last less than a year and then fall apart, after an indictment expected to be issued by Attorney-General Avichai Mandelblit. He said he expected Gantz to keep his word and not join Netanyahu's government.
He rejected speculation that President Reuven Rivlin would ask Netanyahu to form the government if the Center-Right wins a majority on April 9, even if Blue and White wins more seats than Netanyahu's Likud.
He also said that he doesn't think Gantz will try to enter Netanyahu's government if the Likud leader receives the presidential mandate to form the next government. If Blue and White wins the elections, he said the first phone calls would be to a "post-Netanyahu" Likud and the Labor Party, as part of an effort to form a national unity government.
"I think [it] will be part of the healing process that the Israeli people need," he said.
Blue and White's message, he said, is that it is possible to lead a party, bring change to the country, not be corrupt and put the Israeli people first.
Regarding Gaza, Lapid said that Netanyahu's mistake was not using the quiet during the three years after Operation Protective Edge in 2014 to bring real change to the Gaza Strip. His party, he said, would advance humanitarian projects and work to change the reality in Gaza to create a price for Hamas if it decides to engage in terrorism against Israel.
Lapid said that the current election campaign was the "ugliest, filthiest and [most] shameful campaign" in Israeli history, and that it has made him angry and disgusted. He said that there was always negativity that came from the "margins," but that now, it is coming from the "primary candidates" like Netanyahu.