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EXCLUSIVE – Newt Gingrich: I Would Consider Being Trump’s Running Mate
Breitbart.com ^ | 9 July 2016 | Patrick Howley

Posted on 07/09/2016 9:57:27 AM PDT by Rockitz

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich tells Breitbart News that he would consider being Republican candidate Donald Trump’s running mate in November’s general election. Asked if Trump has asked him to be running mate, Gingrich said, “No.”

Asked if he would consider being running mate, Gingrich said, “Yes.” But, “I think he has to make that decision.”

“It is the most extraordinary campaign of its time,” the former speaker added. “He’s come out of nowhere and defeated 16 other candidates.”

“If he catches fire he could be much like Reagan in 1980,” Gingrich said, noting that Trump could match those record numbers “if this thing continues to evolve and people learn how dishonest and unserious Hillary Clinton is.”

In conversation, Gingrich habitually rattles off ballot statistics for small nationalistic parties in other parts of the world, from Austria, where the election “is so close they’re going to have to re-run it because the establishment stole about 60,000 votes. The two parties that had run the country came in fourth and fifth,” to Rome, where Virginia Raggi won the mayoral election heading the populist Five Star Movement. To Great Britain.

“The British people heard from the establishment unanimously opposing it and the people just ignored them and rolled over it,” he said before he started talking about the election of a schoolteacher in Iceland.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2016election; depressed; donglalinger; election2016; georgia; gingrich; newtgingrich; newyork; runningmate; trump; vicepresident; vp
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To: Lakeshark

I think that Newt would make a great White House Chief of Staff.


161 posted on 07/09/2016 8:13:13 PM PDT by mkjessup (Islam is the ENEMY of all civilized people. Obama is a Muslim. What's that tell ya?!?)
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To: mkjessup

That’s what I would counsel.

Press secretary might be more fun.....

:-)


162 posted on 07/09/2016 8:14:48 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Trump. He stands for the great issues of the day. He's not Hillary. I love both these things.)
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To: Cobra64

Newt is older. Newt is 73. Sessions is 69.


163 posted on 07/10/2016 12:51:55 AM PDT by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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To: Pinkbell

I know.


164 posted on 07/10/2016 6:25:56 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Pinkbell

I know. I have never suggested Newt for VP. That is a dumb idea. He is best suited for one four year hire as Trump’s Chief of Staff.


165 posted on 07/10/2016 6:27:32 AM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: mkjessup

The anti-Newt, No Trumpers are all over this on different threads. One even said he wasn’t going to vote for Trump if Newt is the candidate!

I despair with these idiots.


166 posted on 07/10/2016 6:46:57 AM PDT by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: With my own people alone I should like to drive away the Muslims)
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To: miss marmelstein

I’ll vote for Trump if Newt is the VP choice, I would prefer another VP, but as long as it’s not a Bush, I’m ok with it (remember the last time a Bush was VP? The President got shot less than 60 days into his term, coincidence? I think not lol)


167 posted on 07/10/2016 8:57:54 AM PDT by mkjessup (Islam is the ENEMY of all civilized people. Obama is a Muslim. What's that tell ya?!?)
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To: VanDeKoik

Best comment EVER! Perfectly stated


168 posted on 07/10/2016 10:31:29 AM PDT by AllAmericanGirl44 (If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.)
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To: Cobra64

Study his history as Speaker.


169 posted on 07/11/2016 1:42:01 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Balanced budget and Contract With America.


170 posted on 07/11/2016 1:59:03 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn't common any more.)
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To: Cobra64
And pushing NAFTA through as soon as the GOP was given the control of the House for the first time in 50 years.

The 'contract with America' was a farce and had nothing to do with stopping the size of big government.

171 posted on 07/12/2016 7:05:26 AM PDT by fortheDeclaration (Pr 14:34 Righteousness exalteth a nation:but sin is a reproach to any people)
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