Former presidential candidate Herman Cain endorsed Newt Gingrich on Saturday night, giving Gingrich a much-needed boost just two days before Florida’s pivotal Jan. 31 primary.
Endorsements
Rick Perry dropped out of the Republican presidential race and endorsed Newt Gingrich on Thursday morning, delivering a short, jaunty speech to supporters in South Carolina. ”I have come to the conclusion that there is no viable path forward for me … I am suspending my campaign and endorsing Newt Gingrich,” he told supporters in [...]
Some 125 evangelical leaders and their spouses will gather this weekend at a Texas ranch to discuss the latest iteration of Operation What To Do About Mitt Romney. While organizers say it is not a meeting to stop the GOP front runner, the invitation is urgent: “This coming election could prove to be the most [...]
In 2008, former South Carolina governor Jim Edwards devoted four months of his life to be the de facto co-chair of Mitt Romney’s campaign in the state, raising money and organizing supporters statewide. This time around not only is he not helping the Romney campaign, he’s not even endorsing Romney. Instead, he tells TIME, he [...]
Concord, New Hampshire In the final days of his long New Hampshire barnstorm, Jon Huntsman has grown comfortable in a role he never expected to play. “I’m the underdog in this race,” Huntsman told a crowd of college kids and a few dozen reporters at a Concord hotel Friday morning. “New Hampshire loves an underdog.”
An eight-vote, 25% victory may look weak, but Mitt Romney’s narrow win in the Iowa caucuses Tuesday has his campaign charting a plan for ultimate victory by the time Florida Republicans hold their primary on Jan. 31. The strategy: use a dominating win in New Hampshire to cast weak victories in Iowa and South Carolina [...]
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie endorsed Mitt Romney’s presidential bid on Tuesday afternoon the latest jolt of momentum for a campaign that steadily gathered strength with less than three months before the first wave of Republican presidential primaries
It’d be a mistake to overstate the impact of a single endorsement, especially one from a one-time rival who never commanded much in the way of national popularity or resources, but Tim Pawlenty’s quick backing of Mitt Romney says a few things about the current primary race, only now rounding the corner into its first [...]
