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Miami Herald
| over 1 year ago
But when it comes to Mack's profits from Freddie Mac's cousin agency, Fannie Mae, the congressman was mum. "What's important here is what Newt Gingrich did for Freddie Mac," said Mack, a Republican U.S...The Romney campaign made Gingrich's estimated $...
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USA Today
| over 1 year ago
Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida was elected in last year's GOP election landslide with heavy support from the tea party movement. Since then, the Cuban-American has become a rising star in GOP politics and is frequently mentioned as a...
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CNSNews.com
| over 1 year ago
Reflecting the sentiments of many Americans, Former Sen. Rick Santorum at Thursday's debate in Florida chided Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich for engaging in "petty politics." After some heated back-and-forth on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
The campaign of former House speaker Newt Gingrich put out the transcript for an ad that has yet to air, using former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 's words from Thursday night's debate. Romney, who had a good night overall , did struggle a bit...
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The Globe & Mail
| over 1 year ago
Video Video Video Video Newt, they charge, is simply no Conservative. Indeed, someone who has spent more than three decades in Washington dreaming up ever more grandiose (his term) ideas about how to use the state to shape economic and social...
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Sydney Morning Herald
| over 1 year ago
January 28, 2012 Read later The Republican rivals debate in Florida ... Mitt Romney suggested illegal immigrants should leave voluntarily and join the queue for legal entry, a proposal Newt Gingrich described as "fantasy". Prominent Republicans have...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney rounds on Newt Gingrich in the Florida Republican debate over 'anti-immigrant' campaign ads. Photograph: Reuters/CNN Mitt Romney is pressing home his advantage after a strong perforamnce in the final Florida TV debate before polls open on...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Text Size Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, New Gingrich and Rick Santorum showed no mercy during last night's GOP debate. They tackled a broad range of foreign, domestic and social issues, including immigration law, foreign intervention in Latin America,...
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CNN Blog
| over 1 year ago
CNN examines statements by Republican presidential candidates during Thursday night's CNN/Republican Party of Florida debate in Jacksonville, Florida. Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich both accused each other of having financial interests in Fannie Mae...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney, facing his greatest challenge of the campaign so far, relentlessly pressed Newt Gingrich on Tuesday night in their final debate before the Florida primary, seeking to regain the offensive against an insurgent challenge that has shaken...
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Zee News
| over 1 year ago
Bouncing off his South Carolina primary victory, former House speaker Gingrich has surged to match former Massachusetts governor Romney in polls in Florida, a state in which 50 delegates are at stake in the winner-takes-all contest. Romney once led...
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Al Jazeera
| over 1 year ago
34 Republican candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have clashed over the issue of immigration in the second debate in a week before the crucial Florida presidential primary on January 31. Gingrich cast Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, as...
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The Tribune
| over 1 year ago
McClatchy Newspapers Mitt Romney pummeled Newt Gingrich repeatedly in a fierce war of words Thursday, striving to capitalize on a turn in the polls in the final debate before Florida's presidential primary on Tuesday. Romney slammed a Gingrich ad on...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
It's simply the kind of over-the-top rhetoric that has characterized American politics for too long. Gingrich responded by noting that Romney earlier had harshly attacked him for suggesting that illegal immigrants who have been in the United States...
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Virginian-Pilot Online
| over 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich says he was vastly closer to President Ronald Reagan than his opponents. Gingrich says he worked with Reagan when he was in Congress and is proud to have the endorsement of Michael Reagan, Ronald Reagan'...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
After trading jabs all week over the political liabilities each had accrued during their time in the private sector, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich went at it tonight over their respective ties to mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac . Gingrich...
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Bradenton Herald
| over 1 year ago
tool goes here Mitt Romney blasted as "repulsive" Newt Gingrich's criticism of his views on immigration, as the two Republican presidential candidates engaged in a fierce war of words Thursday night in the final debate before Florida's presidential...
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Chicago Tribune
| over 1 year ago
Republican presidential candidates former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (L) and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney walk past each other during a break in the Republican presidential candidates debate in Tampa, Florida January 23, 2012.
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Bradenton Herald
| over 1 year ago
The campaign got hot in Florida, with Newt Gingrich accusing top rival Mitt Romney and the super PAC supporting the former Massachusetts governor of dishonest ads against the former speaker, and Romney inviting factory workers who were about to lose...
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BBC
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are slugging it out in Florida ahead of the final national debate before the battleground state heads to the polls. Mr Gingrich said his rival was part of the "old order", treating voters as though they were "stupid" and...
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Canada.com
| over 1 year ago
Among big-name Republicans, the panic has begun to set in about Newt Gingrich...House Speaker was hit Thursday with a wave of acid commentary from household GOP names ranging from columnist Ann Coulter to former presidential nominee Bob Dole, as...
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Christian Science Monitor
| over 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich, who is hoping to regain his momentum Thursday night, suggests the silent crowd at the first GOP Florida debate rattled him...There are two burning questions heading into Thursday night's Republican presidential debate: Will the...
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Leader Post Online
| over 1 year ago
Republican White House hopefuls Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich traded personal barbs Thursday, hours before the final debate in Florida's ultra-competitive and all-important primary. With five days until Floridians go the polls, the frontrunners...
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Star Tribune
| over 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich on Thursday dramatically ramped up his attacks on Mitt Romney, saying the former Massachusetts governor is guilty of lies, desperation and hypocrisy that should make "every American angry." Gingrich, the former House speaker, said he...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
Jacksonville Thursday night, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney suggested to a crowd outside a closing printing plant in this economically hard-hit city that rival Newt Gingrich is too embedded in Washington culture to be the party's nominee.
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| over 1 year ago
There were several of us in the United States Senate back in 2005 and 2006 who saw the problem with Freddie and Fannie, and tried to move forth with a bill. We voted a bill out of committee to try to constrain Fannie and Freddie, and there were a lot...
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Arizona Republic
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich are using transparency as a club against each other. Gingrich pressed Romney to release his tax returns until the former Massachusetts governor relented this week. Romney badgered the former House speaker to disclose...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich 's firm earned $1.65 million for consulting, not lobbying, work at mortgage giant Freddie Mac, documents indicate. Documents released Tuesday indicate the relationship between the Federal Home Loan...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
A new ad from a super PAC supporting former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney takes on former House speaker Newt Gingrich 's frequent mentions of Ronald Reagan . From debates you'd think Newt Gingrich was Ronald Reagan's vice president, the narrator...
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Kansas City Star
| over 1 year ago
Vice President Joe Biden says he can't find "any fundamental difference" between Republican presidential rivals Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney, even though the two are fighting each other fiercely for the party's nomination.Asked in a nationally...
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Turks and Caicos Free Press
| over 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich says he never lobbied for Freddie Mac even though he was a consultant to the government-backed mortgage company's chief lobbyist. Instead, the presidential hopeful says he provided "strategic advice" under the $25,000 per month contract.
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Taiwan News
| over 1 year ago
The two leading Republican presidential contenders tried to turn the arguments over their business dealings to their own advantage, as Mitt Romney released tax documents that put him among the very richest Americans and Newt Gingrich defended his...
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The Tribune
| over 1 year ago
The Center for Health Transformation, founded by Gingrich, provided the second contract a day after releasing a 2006 agreement for Gingrich's services. The two contracts paid Gingrich's consulting business just over $1.6 million and required Gingrich...
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KSAZ
| over 1 year ago
Mitt Romney returned to attack mode Tuesday afternoon, calling Republican presidential rival Newt Gingrich an "influence peddler" for his work at Freddie Mac. "These government-sponsored entities in the case of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are a large...
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Washington Post
| over 1 year ago
A super PAC supporting former House speaker Newt Gingrich has made a $6 million ad buy in Florida, underscoring the new dynamics of the presidential race. A new ad from the group claims former Massachusett governor Mitt Romney invented government-run...
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Bradenton Herald
| over 1 year ago
tool goes here Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came to ground zero of the housing crisis Tuesday to assail rival Newt Gingrich over his ties to the government-backed mortgage companies that helped make it worse, a message Romney has...
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Pakistan Chronicle
| over 1 year ago
That was before Romney lost by double-digits to Newt Gingrich in South Carolina. Over the last 48 hours, Romney has gone from barely mentioning his rivals on the stump or in news interviews to launching an all-out assault on Gingrich, portraying him...
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NY Daily News
| over 1 year ago
The Republican presidential candidate has issued a gimmicky press release offering a $1.6 million reward for anyone who delivers rival Newt Gingrich 's contract with government housing corporation Freddie Mac. The former Massachusetts governor has...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
An independent committee supporting Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich got $5 million from a friend of the former U.S...The cash for the independent expenditure committee came from Dr. Miriam Adelson, wife of casino mogul Sheldon Adelson ,...
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Star Tribune
| over 1 year ago
The Republican candidates' fight for Florida and the states beyond stayed at a high boil Tuesday as Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney each tried to turn a debate night of mutual sniping to his own advantage. At the center of a stew of personal attacks...
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The Guardian
| over 1 year ago
Good morning, and welcome to our live coverage of the primary campaign. The candidates are continuing to jostle in Florida today, after a debate last night during which Mitt Romney stuck it to Newt Gingrich over the former speaker's sacking for...
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United Press International
| over 1 year ago
Almost all the $42.6 million Mitt Romney made the past two years was from investment profits, dividends or interest, his U.S. tax return and an estimate showed. None of the income -- $21.7 million in 2010 and $20.9 million estimated for 2011 -- came...
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The Boston Globe
| over 1 year ago
Associated Press / January 24, 2012 E-mail this article To: Invalid E-mail address Add a personal message: (80 character limit) Your E-mail: Invalid E-mail address Sending your article Your article has been sent...Republican presidential contenders...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
Barabak and Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times Reporting from Tampa, Fla. Standing face to face, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich traded barbs over honesty and integrity in an acrimonious debate that opened a fierce fight ahead of Florida's crucial...
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Bradenton Herald
| over 1 year ago
tool goes here Mitt Romney spent years building a presidential candidacy based on corporate success, a squeaky clean image and an aura of electability that let him focus on President Barack Obama rather than his GOP rivals.
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Articles Often derided as a lukewarm debater, Romney lashed out at Gingrich for resigning as speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives under an ethical cloud and repeatedly labelled him an influence peddler. The former Massachusetts governor needs...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Articles Romney, the former front-runner who was stung by Gingrich's 12-point victory in the South Carolina primary last week, bowed to political pressure and released records that showed he will pay $6.2 million (3.9 million pounds) in taxes on a...
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International Business Times
| over 1 year ago
Articles The former Massachusetts governor, Romney, and his camp are trying to thwart any chances of a win by Newt Gingrich in the Florida primary on January 31. Terry Schiavo, Mitt Romney focused more on Gingrich's past as an adviser to mortgage...
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
| over 1 year ago
Richards/Agence France-Presse/Getty Images Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, left, and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich take the stage Monday night during the Republican debate at the University of South Florida in Tampa. Fla. -- In his...
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Los Angeles Times
| over 1 year ago
In a potentially pivotal GOP presidential debate, Newt Gingrich repeatedly found himself on the defensive Monday night, as Mitt Romney sharply assailed his record as House speaker and his work as a highly paid consultant to Freddie Mac , the...
