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Newt Gingrich Headlines
A list of the most recent stories about Newt Gingrich.
Newt's Next Move
If there was someone who was supposed to win Alabama and Mississippi, it was Newt Gingrich. Instead, Gingrich finished second behind Rick Santorum, raising new questions about the next step for his Presidential campaign. Gingrich on Wednesday starts two days of election events in Illinois which votes next Tuesday - ...
Gingrich Team: Halftime
Newt Gingrich's campaign issued a memo to reporters on Tuesday as the polls were open in Mississippi and Alabama, arguing that the GOP race for the White House is only approaching "halftime." Gingrich himself earlier in the day used that same football terminology, arguing that Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney would ...
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 ...
Santorum with Boortz: I'm the only true conservative
After winning the Kansas caucuses Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum tells WSB's Neal Boortz this morning he's the only way to make sure the Republican nominee is a true conservative. "Since Nevada, Newt has only finished in first or second once, and that was in his home state of ...
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 ...
Gingrich fights on during Super Tuesday
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is banking on a big win in Georgia Tuesday to keep his fading hopes of winning the nomination alive. "It looks now like in Georgia we will carry the state by four or five times the margin that Romney had in Michigan," Gingrich told supporters ...
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 ...
Poll: Gingrich with double-digit lead in Ga.
Newt Gingrich says if wins Georgia he’s taking his campaign all the way to the Republican Convention in Tampa. If the latest poll for the AJC is indicative of Super Tuesday’s results, then Gingrich will be around for a while. The new numbers show the former Georgia Congressman ...
Q & A with Newt Gingrich
WSB’s Pete Combs has been covering former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as he campaigns for the GOP presidential nomination in Georgia and in Macon on Thursday, conducted an exclusive interview with the candidate. Here’s a transcript of that interview. Q: MR. SPEAKER, WE’RE COMING INTO SUPER TUESDAY. AS LONG ...
Gingrich bus tour heads south
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's bus tour heads to Macon this afternoon. WSB's Pete Combs is on the bus and has been following the candidate all over the state this week. Earlier today, Gingrich made stops at the Cobb Energy Center and in Woodstock. Wednesday Gingrich turned up the volume ...
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 ...
Gingrich campaigns in NW Georgia
As Republican candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battle it out for votes in Michigan, Newt Gingrich is campaigning here in Georgia, where the native son is in a must-win position. In fact, WSB political expert Bill Crane says Newt Gingrich doesn’t just need a win in Georgia. ...
Poll: Gingrich has large lead in Ga.
A new Channel 2 Action News presidential poll shows while Newt Gingrich is leading in Georgia, a win is not a slam dunk on Super Tuesday. According to the Landmark Communications/Rosetta Stone Poll, Newt Gingrich leads with 38 percent. Rick Santorum has 25 percent and Mitt Romney is in ...
Gingrich warns of role of "secular left"
Newt Gingrich warned members of a Forsyth County church Sunday that the "secular left" is trying to undermine American principles established by the Founding Fathers as he sought to rejuvenate his presidential bid. The former House speaker is bypassing Tuesday's Republican presidential primaries in Michigan and Arizona and spending ...
Gingrich lays out energy strategy on News/Talk WSB
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich told News/Talk WSB’s Erick Erickson that there are several things he will do to drop gas prices down to $2.50 a gallon if he becomes President. “There’s lots of things you can do if you’re serious about solving the problem,” Gingrich said. AUDIO: Listen ...
Race for Georgia's GOP a three way tie
With Rick Santorum coming on strong, the race for Georgia's GOP delegates is now a three-way tie. Santorum, Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney each has about a quarter of the vote. WSB political expert Bill Crane says this could mean bad news for all three in winning the nomination. “He ...
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