He was the only Speaker of the House to have been disciplined for ethics violations and agreed to pay $300,000 in penalties. Then GOP colleagues launched an unsuccessful coup to force him out of the speakership. By late 1998, he had resigned from Congress altogether. Period. In addition to his extensive resume of government service, Gingrich has been a tireless student of government and history, and he is one of Washington’s few authentic, original thinkers.
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Gingrich, who ran for president in 2012 but eventually lost to Mitt Romney in the nomination process, claims that he took action in the 1990s as speaker of the House that led to four consecutive years of balanced budgets.
Of course, Gingrich cutting ties with Fox yesterday doesn’t guarantee that he’ll be Trump’s running mate.
During his endorsement of Clinton in New Hampshire on Tuesday, Sanders said his campaign was about people who are “left out and left behind”.
We are in a war with terrorists who want to strike us at any price and in a very violent way, Cazeneuve said. They also cut capital gains taxes and reformed welfare.
The Washington Post noted that Flynn would have the chops to shore up one of Trump’s major weaknesses – foreign policy. So much for that running-mate gig, Newt. Maybe. But the public is clamoring for change. More than 20 years later, Gingrich is still, in a way, an outsider, despite his insider experience.
Newton Leroy “Newt” Gingrich was born in Harrisburg, Pa., in 1943.
Newt Gingrich is no longer a contributor for Fox News, the network announced Tuesday.
Trump’s campaign is trying to woo disgruntled Sanders supporters opposed to Clinton. Trump’s also met with New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, and Alabama Sen.
A national-security role in a potential Trump administration could be a good fit for Gingrich. Describing Trump as an “American nationalist”, Gingrich did praise Trump for being “smart” to appeal to naive voters by talking to them with such basic language. Gingrich has been one of Trump’s top surrogates for months, becoming one of the first veteran Republicans to speak positively about the entertainer, at a time when he was still anathema to the party, or at least, to even more of the party than he is today.
Gingrich is being vetted by the Trump campaign for the VP position, he said last week.
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During congressional testimony Thursday, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh (jay) Johnson says he’s concerned that demonstrations outside the convention hall may get out of hand. That I can tell you, okay?’ Nobody. Nobody’s beating on Newt in the debate’. Lyndon Johnson helped John F. Kennedy win Texas in 1960.
