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Newt Gingrich Headlines

A list of the most recent stories about Newt Gingrich.

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Santorum's Southern Shot

From Montgomery, Alabama - Arriving for his fifth and final stop of Monday just down the street from the Alabama State Capitol, Rick Santorum deviated from his normal hour-long stump speech for a simple reason - he had to be on TV with Sean Hannity. "I can only talk for ...

Gingrich Goes For Broke

From Birmingham, Alabama - One week ago, Newt Gingrich's campaign put out a post-Super Tuesday schedule which included two days of election events in Kansas. But the day after his win in Georgia, Gingrich scrapped that trip in order to focus on Alabama and Mississippi. That made me wonder just ...

Republicans Hit the Deep South

From Mobile, Alabama - The southern states of Alabama and Mississippi have unexpectedly become a big battleground in the Republican race for the White House, as Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum elbow their way for advantage in two primaries that were afterthoughts just a few weeks ago. After ...

Santorum Looks for Momentum

After winning three of ten Super Tuesday states, but narrowly losing to Mitt Romney in Ohio, Rick Santorum will try to generate some new momentum on Saturday in Kansas with GOP Presidential caucuses in that state. 40 delegates are at stake in the Sunflower State - 12 delegates are handed ...

Questions for Gingrich

From Columbus, Ohio - I love covering Presidential primary campaigns. It is a lot of fun to chase the candidates for weeks on end through a number of states, watching them rise and fall - except when the end is near. There is nothing more unsettling to me as a ...

Gingrich Focuses on Money

Newt Gingrich has put his campaign web site on hold on this day after Super Tuesday, devoting its resources only to an effort to raise money in the wake of his victory in Georgia on Super Tuesday. Instead of a website filled with all kinds of information about his run ...

Romney wins Ohio GOP primary, 5 states in all

Mitt Romney has won Ohio's Republican presidential primary, narrowly defeating Rick Santorum in the most critical and hard-fought of the Super Tuesday contests. In all, Romney has gained victories in five Super Tuesday states. The other states he's won are Massachusetts, Vermont, Virginia and Idaho. Santorum has won Tennessee, Oklahoma ...

Tight battle in Super Tuesday states

The four leading Republican Presidential candidates look to have a breakout moment as ten states vote today. 419 delegates are at stake with the big prizes being Ohio and Georgia. It's a tight battle in Ohio between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum. Newt Gingrich is polling strong in Georgia.

Super Tuesday "Life or Death"

The Super PAC that favors Newt Gingrich is out with a fund raising email on the eve of Super Tuesday which says that voting for Gingrich is an issue of "life and death." Here's the email that was sent out early on Monday morning: Super Tuesday could absolutely mean Life ...

450 Election Miles

From Atlanta, Georgia - Wednesday was another lengthy day on the campaign trail, as I drove 450 miles to get from Atlanta to the Knoxville, Tennessee area for an event with Rick Santorum. It was a much different drive for me than in some other states. Unlike in Iowa, New ...

Mitt's Michigan advantage

Polls are predicting a tight race between Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum in Michigan's Republican presidential primary today. A loss for Romney in the state where he was born could be embarrassing. Romney is expected to win Arizona. Newt Gingrich is looking to Super Tuesday next week.

The Campaign Map Expands

The Republican race for President has now entered a new phase where no longer can the candidates, their campaigns and the news media focus on just one state, as the political battlefield expands dramatically over the next few weeks. And it begs an important question - where do you go? ...

Central Florida man suing Gingrich

A central Florida man is suing Newt Gingrich after he claims one of the GOP hopeful's security detail stomped on his foot during primary voting this past Tuesday. Edward Dillard claims someone from Newt's security team fractured his foot.

Gingrich Supporters fire back, plan appeal

The fight over Florida continues. As we brought you yesterday, the Newt Gingrich campaign is challenging Florida's winner-take-all results in the primary, and state GOP Chair Lenny Curry is not happy. Now, we're hearing from the man who's raising the red flag. Rules are rules, says Bill McCollum - a ...

Arizona Stays Winner Take All

As Newt Gingrich challenges the legality of the "winner take all" aspect of this week's Florida Primary, officials in Arizona's GOP say they have no plans to move away from "winner take all" in that state's February 28 primary, even though national party rules prohibit such delegate plans before April ...

Florida GOP vs Gingrich

Officials in the Florida Republican Party are pushing back hard against the expected challenge from Newt Gingrich's campaign to the way that the Sunshine State will award delegates based on this week's primary. While national Republican rules for 2012 say no state can be "winner take all" before April 1, ...

With presidential primary over, Mack refocuses

Now that the presidential primary mayhem is over, Senate candidate Connie Mack is refocusing is campaign efforts on unseating Bill Nelson.  Mack made a stop at the River Club of Jacksonville this morning for a private event.  Afterwards, Mack talked to me about progress on the Mack Penny Plan, a ...

Florida's sour grapes

Florida's Republican party chairman is not amused with Newt Gingrich's challenge to the winner-take-all rule. Former Attorney General Bill McCollum is a Gingrich supporter who is raising the issue. GOP Chairman Lenny Curry says it amounts to sour grapes.

FL GOP: "Fired-Up" over Gingrich challenge

Florida's GOP Chair Lenny Curry is not amused with a challenge from the Gingrich Campaign about the Sunshine State's winner-take-all rule. "This has absolutely got me fired-up, because every candidate came to the state of Florida and they knew it was winner take all," says Curry. He hears the grumbling ...

Large Mitt Romney sign at the back of Romney HQ in the Duval county GOP HQ.

Romney supporters credit ground game in win

Mitt Romney supporters know exactly why the former Massachusetts governor won Florida handily in Tuesday's primary. "I'm ecstatic.  I"m so excited.  We've all worked so hard and put so much energy into this," says Jordan Carter, a Romney campaign volunteer who says he's been making phone calls and waving signs ...

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