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Newt’s casino-baron backer says Gingrich ‘at the end of his line’
Billionaire casino owner and major donor to the Newt Gingrich (R-GA) super PAC Winning Our Future has indicated that the Gingrich 2012 campaign’s days are numbered, in spite of the former Speaker of the House’s avowal to stay in the race. In an interview with The Jewish Journal, Adelson said…
Gingrich promises to stay in race after cutting one-third of his staff
Gingrich remains defiant and says he is downsizing in order to stay in the race until Republican convention in Tampa in August Newt Gingrich admitted on Wednesday that his campaign is struggling financially, which forcing him to cut his staff by a third – but vowed he intends to remain…
Gingrich charging supporters $50 per photo
Newt Gingrich’s cash-starved campaign has begun charging supporters $50 to have a photograph taken with the Republican presidential candidate. “Some campaigns make you travel all the way to Wall Street to pay $2,500 for a photo with a candidate,” a Gingrich spokesperson told National Journal on Monday. “We are trying…
Newt Gingrich calls Obama comment on Trayvon Martin ‘disgraceful’
Most observers took President Obama’s comment that the killing of Trayvon Martin hit him particularly hard because “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon” as a very normal human reaction. However, at least one person — Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich — found it “disgraceful” and “appalling” that…
Gingrich claims ‘elite media’ helping Obama hide his ‘Muslim friends’
In a radio interview on Thursday, Newt Gingrich returned to one of his favorite recent themes, what he calls the “elite media” and their conspiracy to aid and abet the Obama administration. In an article at Huffington Post, the former Speaker of the House is quoted as saying to Sandy…
Gingrich demands Obama apologize for De Niro’s joke
Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that President Barack Obama should apologize for a joke made by actor Robert De Niro. “Callista Gingrich. Karen Santorum. Ann Romney. Now do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady?” De Niro said at an Obama fundraiser in New York City…
Brown: Secret Service gives Santorum ‘first time he’s used protection’
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) decided to poke some fun at the GOP presidential candidates with a few colorful jokes Sunday morning, with probably the best saved for Rick Santorum. At a St. Patrick’s Day event in South Boston, the Massachusetts senator was intrigued over Santorum and Newt Gingrich receiving secret…
Jon Stewart: Why won’t Gingrich quit?
The dominant media narrative going into Tuesday’s Republican primary voting in Alabama, Mississippi, Hawaii and American Samoa was that Newt Gingrich must carry the south or leave the race. On Wednesday night’s The Daily Show, host Jon Stewart took a moment to survey the aftermath and to ponder what will…
Three signs the Gingrich campaign may be the walking dead
Facing losses in the primaries in Alabama and Mississippi, Newt Gingrich gave a speech on Tuesday night in Birmingham, Alabama, in which he vowed to fight on. Saying that he intends to run “a people’s campaign,” the former Speaker of the House declared himself the “visionary leader” that the times…
Romney: ‘If I’m a weak frontrunner then what does that make Newt Gingrich?’
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has a response to rival Newt Gingrich’s claim that he’s a weak frontrunner: I know I am but what are you? On Sunday, Gingrich told Fox News host Chris Wallace that the former Massachusetts governor had one of the most anemic campaigns in the last…
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