Newt Gingrich presidential campaign, 2012
| Newt Gingrich for President 2012 | |
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| Campaign | U.S. presidential election, 2012 |
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Newt Gingrich Former U.S. Representative from Georgia Former Speaker of the House |
| Affiliation | Republican Party |
| Status | Suspended (May 2, 2012) |
| Headquarters | Atlanta, Georgia |
| Key people | Vince Haley (Manager) Patrick Millsaps (Chief of Staff (February 3 – May 2, 2012)) R.C. Hammond (Press Secretary) Joe DeSantis (Communications Director) Amy Pass (Finance Coordinator) |
| Receipts | US$24,110,410 (2011-06-30) |
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The 2012 presidential campaign of Newt Gingrich, former U.S. Representative from Georgia and Speaker of the House began shortly following the 2010 midterm elections. He was politically active during the midterm elections, and helped several Tea Party-backed Republicans with his endorsements and fundraising abilities.
In early 2011, he chose to run for president and left his position as a political analyst for Fox News to seek the 2012 Republican Party nomination for President of the United States. He suffered campaign staff troubles in June but by November had revived his campaign through strong debate performances and the introduction of a new "Twenty-First Century Contract with America".
In November and early December 2011, Gingrich was the front-runner of the Republican primaries, gaining momentum in the early states of Iowa, Florida, and South Carolina. In one month, his campaign organization had enjoyed greater fund-raising success than it had in all its previous months put together, and polling found the electorate had a more favorable opinion of him among conservatives, Tea Partiers, and moderates, who had long been former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney's strongest constituency.
By December, however, Gingrich's polling success had attracted renewed media scrutiny. His support began to wane and he was fourth in the first two contests of the 2012 primary season held on January 3 and 10, a result attributed to a wave of opponent-financed attack ads. He subsequently focused his attention on front runner Romney, dubbing him a "timid Massachusetts moderate." After strong debate performances in the week prior to the South Carolina primary, he managed to revive his campaign by winning all of that southern state's delegates on January 21. Although Gingrich captured 32% of the vote in Florida on January 31, the Romney campaign took 46% to win Florida comfortably in the increasingly bitter contest. After low percentages of the votes in early February, the "Newt 2012" campaign counted on a strong showing in the March votes in the South, particularly in Alabama and Mississippi. Gingrich came a close second in both, and announced he would not drop out.
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