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Subscribe to RSSGREEN BAY, Wis. -- Newt Gingrich reiterated Friday that he will not depart the presidential race until a candidate obtains the required number of delegates to secure the Republican nomination but acknowledged that Mitt Romney could get to that threshold before the convention.
“I think that he [Romney] clearly has a chance to do it, and if he does succeed in doing it, obviously Callista and I will support him and I’m sure Rick Santorum will support him. But he has to earn it,” Gingrich said at his Green Bay campaign office. “But if he doesn’t get to 1,144, then I think you’ll see a very different party discussion from that point on.”
The former House speaker currently trails both Romney and Santorum by a significant margin in delegates and has just two primary wins under his belt. And many polls have him struggling in the batch of states that vote on Tuesday – Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington, DC.
But standing just across from Lambeau Field in “Titletown, USA,” Gingrich explained why he doesn’t plan to get out before reaching the finish line.
“If you’re a Green Bay fan … you expect the team to play every quarter of the entire season and not just decide halfway in the season that it’s too hard,” he said at Kroll’s West Restaurant near the Packers' stadium.
Some criticize Gingrich for staying in the race because they fear he is dividing the party and preventing the base from rallying around the frontrunner, Romney. While party unity is important, Gingrich said Friday evening, sometimes ideas matter more.
"I want you know that we are deeply committed to going to Tampa, we are deeply committed to fighting for these ideas, that we are prepared to compete all the way. While I am committed to party unity, I think it ought to be party unity for a purpose, with a platform that matters and with ideas that enable us to say to the American people if you hire us, we’re not just anti-Obama, we are pro success for America and here are ideas that will make America successful,” Gingrich said.
According to Gingrich, he, Romney and Santorum all have one common tie no matter what.
“The three of us have a general agreement. We want to beat Barack Obama. If Santorum is the nominee, I will support him and Romney will support him. If Romney’s the nominee, Santorum and I will support him, if I end up being the nominee, both Romney and Santorum will support me,” Gingrich said, after he was asked about the conversations he has had with his two Republican competitors lately.
“Now the fact is that we’re committed to defeating Barack Obama and we’ve known each other a long time and we want to make sure that however this thing comes out in the end, that the Republican nominee defeats Barack Obama, and I think that that’s the essence of the conversations we have.”
On Saturday G,ingrich wraps up his three-day swing through the Badger State, speaking at the Wisconsin Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Presidential Kick-Off in Waukesha, Wis.
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Gingrich is only staying in to keep Santorum in check. The GOP elite know that Santorum has ZERO chance of winning the general election. So, as a firewall, they tolerate the Newt's follies. Newt just takes enough votes away from Santorum to keep Romney safe!
Wow, his moon colony is only a few delegates away.
Newt's ego is one for the Ages. In all my life I've never seen anyone like him.
The right wingers never got over having their heads handed to them in 2008 by an intelligent, well-educated, articulate BLACK guy. You can see their racism in everything they do and say. The bad news for them is that the intellligent, well-educated, articulate BLACK guy is going to do it to them AGAIN...AND, he's going to help regain both houses with more than a simple majority....lol
I just can't wait for November
Well Pete that is what should happen, after the way the Gaseous Old Pharts have screwed the country because they are so greedy and spiteful. However over 30 states have changed their voting requirements in order to steal the election in November. It is a shame that so many of the voting public will also go to the voting booths and vote against their own best interest just to get the Black guy out of the White House.
I am a Reagen republican but if Romney get the nomination I will sit this one out, Mitt never worked for anything in his life everywhere he went his dad picked up the phone for him. He comes from the .00006% and the bankers and wall street tycoons will pump money into him like an oil well in Saudi Arabia and if he wins they will create a financial Armageddon for us the 99% All he know is to stick it to us the 99% and I would like nothing better for Gingrich to spoil it for Romney, and the party elites.The democrats will welcome Mitt Romney in the fall,Because I think they are a shoe in facing Romney, this time the party elites screwed up.
I love it ruin it newt for them dam repukes.
Gingrich says Romney must ‘earn’ the nomination
Well, so must you, Mr Gingrich! I see you are running a distant 3rd!
Keep up the GOOD work GOP candidates. Your making it so you won't have a chance in november...Not like ever did, but keep it up anyway...
Romney can't earn the nomination because he does not deserve it. He feels entitled to it because he is rich. The American people know that if they let Romney in the White House he will just bring more oppression on the middle class. He can't even run a descent campaign without flubbing it up at least once a week. Just think how that rich idiot will do running the country's policy.
obama doesn't deserve to be re-elected.......talk about a sense of entitlement......ANYONE BUT obama IN NOVEMBER!
@mcpaddywack (35) You mean to tell me that you'd rather have one of the three stooges in the White House than the current president? How sad!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What will you do in November should Obama win? Just asking...
Gingrich's sugar daddy has shut off his cash machine and now he just wants to make it hard for everyone else. Romney will take the candidacy and Obama will win in November.
so baby huey says mitt must earn the nomination. like his wife earned him, but scr---=g him while he was married? how does she show her face in public? how does he show his face and lie about being right with god. he is a seial liar and has a false ego the size if the moon. i think if you google his name you will see a description of a loser (better than santorums description though)
Maybe the USA is ready for a Conscientious Objector for President. When he gets that 3AM call he will order the Airborne qualified "Elders" dressed in white shirt, black pants and thin black tie to jump into the "Danger Zone" with their Joesph Smith "Bible". As a 1%, he will not permit the lobbyist from the Military Industrial complex in the White House.
Does it really make a 'difference' what the paunchy, immoral and conniving Gingrich thinks or says?
Hell no. He is the sort of 'politician' who would 'lead us' into slavery, enslavement or some sort of shackles because his ego is what rules.
He does not give a damn about tomorrow except for himself. He is an example of a 'politician' who will lie, cheat, steal, condemn and make outrageous claims for himself and against his opponents only to soothe his addled brain and assuage his ego.
Forget this blunderbuss... in fact throw him under the bus (so to speak) NOW.
Gingrich "But he has to earn it,”...as oppose to what? Buying it, which is what he is doing!
And for 50 bucks MR can have his picture taken with Newt!
How would he have to do this? A bribe? Qualifications sure don't come into play here!