Source: Trump Will Endorse Gingrich Today
- Posted on February 2, 2012 at 6:54am by
Billy Hallowell
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Donald Trump (Photo: AP)
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Real estate mogul and reality show star Donald Trump intends to endorse Newt Gingrich’s GOP presidential bid, according to a source close to Gingrich’s campaign.
Trump is set to announce his support Thursday in Las Vegas, where Gingrich is campaigning in advance of Nevada’s Republican caucuses on Saturday.
Trump’s backing would bring the former House speaker a blitz of media attention heading into the contest and following his defeat in Florida.
Trump announced Wednesday that he was to make news in the presidential race but did not say what it was.
Asked about the possible endorsement Wednesday in Reno, Nev., Gingrich said he had “no idea what the Donald is going to do.”
“He is always interesting,” Gingrich said of Trump. “And I don’t know of anybody who does a better job of getting attention by announcing that he will presently announce something.”
Trump is set to announce his support Thursday Feb. 2, 2012 in Las Vegas, where Gingrich is campaigning in advance of Nevada's Republican caucuses on Saturday. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)
Gingrich sought Trump‘s endorsement at a meeting in December at the real estate mogul’s Trump Tower office in Manhattan. There, Gingrich told reporters he had persuaded Trump to mentor promising children from some of New York’s poorest schools.
The former House speaker had come under fire for suggesting poor children should do janitorial chores in their schools to learn the value of work.
Gingrich also agreed to appear in a Republican debate Trump was to host in Iowa in December. But other candidates, including frontrunner Mitt Romney, turned down the debate, forcing Trump to cancel.
Trump had flirted with the idea of jumping in the presidential race as a third-party candidate but ultimately decided not to.
Appearing on CBS’ “Face The Nation” on Sunday, Trump praised Gingrich.
“He’s got great ideas. He’s very smart, he’s very tough and he is a great debater,” he said.
Gingrich was pounded by Romney in Florida in Tuesday’s Republican primary. Romney is considered a heavy favorite in Nevada, a state he won when he sought the GOP nomination in 2008.?
The source was not authorized to speak for the campaign and spoke on condition of anonymity. The endorsement was first reported by KLAS-TV in Las Vegas.
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Comments (104)
Baddoggy
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:47amI want to thank Donalsd Trump for not endorsing Ron Paul! Whew! That would have killed the Ron Paul movemnet…
Newt has the anchor around his neck! hahaha
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:57am@Baddoggy
The biggest problem Ron Paul has is that cult following that developed behind him. People all over simply got sick of them spamming every forum on the internet and trying to take over radio talk shows.
Paul should have denounced them a LONG time ago but his over-inflated ego wouldn’t allow him to do that.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:42amPaul seems like a too kind and naive person who has attracted a bunch of anarchists .
Report Post »TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:12pmI heard although Trump the man is endorsing Newt… Trump‘s FU’ed hair will be endorsing Ron Paul.
Report Post »garyM
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:54pmI don’t think Donald would hurt Ron, his campaign has never been over 5% nationwide since he started 10 years ago!
Report Post »rtlane28
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:29amGreat ! One more reason not to vote for Newt.
Report Post »kaseals
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:11amYou have definitely hit the nail on the head:)
Report Post »Ten-Thousand-Eagle-Feathers
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:22amI like newt.org, I like what he says there, and I could support that 1000 percent. You remember when McCain said our President was an honorable man (paraphrase)? How many dim light bulbs out there registered that fact and decided not to think about it anymore? So no, being a Morman is inconsequential in our minds?
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:29amMcCain is a showboat and so is Trump.
Report Post »LibertyGoddess
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:23pmYou must be late to the campaign. Religious Bigotry is not allowed, nor will it be tolerated. Mitt’s success in his personal life and his career are all you need to know about him. His belief system helped him to achieve that. Newt, on the other hand is criminal and morally repugnant and his belief system didn’t help him one bit. So, knock it off with the religion bashing. Tell your pastor I said the same thing.
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 2:43pm@ LIBERTYGODESS
Report Post »We get it your for Mitt (I’m of the same Faith as Mitt an Glenn)
Religious Bigotory is not Necessary
Neither is tearing down one person to make another look better.
kaygee
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:13amnothing new all characterless moron will gang together.
Report Post »Babeuf
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:42amThat’s ok, I would rather be in the company of the morons like Trump, Sarah Palin, Cain, Art Laffer, JC Watt and Michael Reagan than with the MORONS like: McCain, Dole, Bush, Coulter, Scarborough, Murkowski,
Report Post »Voice_ofFreedom
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:25am@BABEUF A very good point I keep trying to explain to these Romneyites who say he’s a conservative and not the establishment.
Report Post »saranda
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:35pm@Babeuf – only name on that list that deserves attention is JC Watt. A list of complete irrelevants otherwise.
Report Post »johncunningham
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:35pmits bad enough to pretend there was some language 2000 years ago with the name Jesus, but Jesus and Mormon. there was no alphabet with the symbols to produce the sounds for these or any of the bible or book of Mormon names. we do not translate names, the sound would stay the same. All religions are cults. we do not need cult members in our government.
Report Post »usa91773
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:08amNewt has great ideas? I don’t think so. Moon Colony, statehood on the moon, mirrors in space , The Grinch would be a big spending nightmare with an ignorant arrogant attitude .
Donald , what are you thinking?
Report Post »wampanoag
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:28amNewt turned this country around in 1994. He almost saved our country until he was kicked out as speaker by the special interests and the crooks in Congress. He gave us four balanced budgets. President Bush Jr. then proceeded to loot and ruin this nation for ever. A job vastly enlarged by Obama. Newt is a thinker and a doer, adn he can solve our problems. Trump is a practical guy who knows that it is the unfair trade practices that have led to our massive eunemployment and underemployment.
Report Post »Babeuf
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:37amIt would be MOSTLY Private Funded.. Don’t you ever read anything besides The Blaze?
Report Post »John F. Kennedy had an earlier version of the same Gingrich thought. “The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space”
But why would we want to move this country deeper into the 21st century of science and technology?
SheriS
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:08amOh my–good news of the day one progressive who is obnoxious supporting another more obnoxious progressive! Will not be supporting either one of them—both are so full of themselves, they are drawn together in their progressiveism! Both are sick jokes on the Repubs who know little about either one but will definite insure Obama another term in office an assure the demise of the USA! Gingrish and Trump are so alike, both full of wind and themselves!
Report Post »Babeuf
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:08amRomneycare
Report Post »LibertyGoddess
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:27pmLook on Foxnews. Trump is endorsing Romney….I wonder why the mix up on the The Blaze?
Report Post »Unix
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:06amIf we follow Problemsolver’s posts on our 1913 and 1933 bankruptcies, and the UN/IMF/Fed owns all of us and our land – NONE of US has ANY rights. Even if this beautiful country is not ‘technically ours’ what gives the Tea Party, OWS or us, ANY rights whatsoever? So we all lose every argument right off the bat.
Report Post »It will be just a matter of time before TRUE RED BLOODED AMERICANS decide to stand up to what has been perpetrated upon us, without our knowledge. It will be carnage times ten, so all of this infighting won’t make much difference will it, when America is totally destroyed.
It makes me sick to my stomach to see us all fight here on the Blaze, or anywhere, don’t ya’ll get it yet, the elite want us to eat each other, then they have total control…this is amazing to watch.
From other posts, I think the idea of educating America would be the best thing that could happen. How do we do it? We do it with love, understanding, intelligence, and strength in numbers.
WE THE PEOPLE can turn this ship around, and we don‘t need this so called ’father figure’ in the WH to do it. Let’s come up with a plan to re-educate these lost souls out there, to re-educate ourselves to what our forefathers paid so dearly to give us.
“If a man stands for nothing, then he will fall for anything”
“Tell the truth, even if it means your DEATH”
Unix
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:08amGod, I do love this country, and I don’t want to see it destroyed by Satan. I want to thank each and every one of you for being you, whether you are left, center or right, for you see we are ALL AMERICANS in the end. I just wish everyone could embrace the freedoms and rights we have, or ‘technically don’t have’, and come together to FIX the free market system, to obliterate the Oligarchy, and restore true Capitalism and the entrepreneurial spirit that once thrived here, we’d ALL be BETTER OFF, and we would have JOBS! Is that not the source of our worries – JOBS! If there were jobs out there, and people still were freeloading, then they would be banished to an island in the Pacific for all I care. This collectivism is KILLING AMERICA…WE must STOP it now!
Report Post »lost tribe
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:51pmYou are off your meds again aren’t you?
Report Post »Susie
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:57amAll that money and he can’t do a darn thing about that awful hair. Wait until he finds out that he can’t influence an election either.
Report Post »wampanoag
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:56amI would love to see Newt as president and Trump as Secretary of the Treasury. These two can get things done on behalf of the American people and have proved it before.
Report Post »Darla_K
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:27amFor real? lmol
Report Post »jredorange
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:53amDONALD TRUMP TO ACTUALLY ENDORSE MITT ROMNEY (yes, Newt Gingrich and MSM mislead for ‘shock and awe’ by Trump and Romney) Story just broke at http://TeaPartyBrief.com
Report Post »MellonCrib
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:54amHead Fake
Report Post »marine43
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:51amJust saw on Drudge that he is gonna endorse Mittens. This whole election is turning into a bad joke.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:55amABC radio news is saying that he’ll endorse Gingrich. I guess we’ll know before long.
Report Post »copatriots
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:28amAmen Marine! What a tragic ending for a once great nation that honorable men and women died for in order to protect our freedoms. How shameful to witness America’s downfall in such a ridiculous manner.
Who gives this megalomaniac the platform to inflate his pitiful ego? Worse, who really is going to be swayed to vote by whoever Trump endorses? *smh
Report Post »whereareyourbrains
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:47amMitt botts………..he won’t beat Obama either…….I don’t like Donald using the media for attention…like Obama does……….but Fox has fallen for Trump and put him on tv on a regular basis.. It was like he had his own time slot with them …Now that he like Newt…wanna see them no longer invite him for his opinion. That just goes to show you how controlled the election is………by the way did I say Mittens won’t beat Obama……………your getting behind the bought votes not the correct candidate………Yeah just like John Mcain…by the way did I tell you he beat Mitt……………..oh yeah
Report Post »wampanoag
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:45amGingrich is a real leader who gets thing done. He proved himself as the greatest Speaker of the House in the past century. He deserve the Presidency, and he can fix our problems. But please dont show Calista in public anymore Newt. She is ugly, and looks like a real witch. She scares me.
Report Post »enzomedici
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 10:31amIf he was so great, why the corruption charges and why did he have to resign in disgrace?
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:45amUnless the endorsement comes with a lot of money, I’m not sure it matters.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:44amI don’t really want Romney or Gingrich but the fact is, Romney won’t be able to offer any contrast to 0bama. There’s just not enough difference in their policies. The 0bama plan needs to be stopped in it’s tracks and either one would help to do that but first, we need to get him out of there.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:09amI’m with you. If Perry had been able to walk and chew gum at the same time we wouldn’t be forced into a no win decision like this.
Report Post »barber2
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:46amWhat ? No difference between Obama and Romney ?? How about the difference between Marxism and capitalism ? That is what this election boils down to . Focus : NoBama 2012 .
Report Post »jonnydoe
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 11:28am@BARBER2,
Between marxism and capitalism? You’ve got to be kidding! Whether you get obama OR romney, you get goldmann sachs.
That’s neither capitalism nor marxism. That’s corporate welfare– crony capitalism at it’s best.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:43am.
I HAVE A QUESTION??????????????????????????????
The Dead Squirrel Trump look, or Callista’s Helmet Hair……..
Who has worse Hair, Trump or Callista?
Report Post »whereareyourbrains
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:52amYou sound like Mitt…(about hair) out there mocking someone who lost. He complains Newt didn’t call…….Mitt acted like the bully in a school yard and after he won……he continued to rub it in..OH MY How presidential he is…………..After someone lambasts you with inundating ads that are not totally correct……..how do you think you would react. He actually was making fun of Newt…..shame on him and now he isn’t worried about the poor………..oh yeah that was taken out of context……..right?
Report Post »thop1960
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:32am@whereareyourbrains
Wow, your feeling sorry for the bully who got bullied and has been crying about it since? Really? He is a typical wus who gets his butt kicked and then complains about it to anyone who will listen. Buckle up and take it like a man.
Report Post »demsrjackwagons
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 1:02pmI think you been spanking something else.
Report Post »sueflorida
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:39amWho cares about Trump–just wants publicity for himself.
Report Post »sueflorida
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:38amWho cares?
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:31amHow did this post end up first?
Report Post »flipper1073
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 3:04pmThis board is so screwed up sometimes it’s upsidedown
Report Post »sometimes it’s rightside up
Who knows it’s never where you think it should be.
You respond to someone an it ends up on the LAST page.
GroundZero is Nuclear Demolition x3
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:31amWGAF about his convoluted opinion, I’m embarrassed to even leave a comment on such a retarded statement!
Report Post »Larryfyne
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:29amIf this is true Trump will lose. Gingrich can’t win the nomination or the election. If he is the nominee Obama will win a second term.
Report Post »demsrjackwagons
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 12:53pmMaybe Romney can create more minimum wage jobs.
Report Post »qpwillie
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:19am“Gingrich also agreed to appear in a Republican debate Trump was to host in Iowa in December. But other candidates, including frontrunner Mitt Romney,”
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I think the “frontrunner” was showing second (or was it third) in the polls at the time. I know at one time, Romney was number three while they were calling him the “frontrunner”. They started calling him that right out of the gate and nobody seemed to be questioning it.
We really need to pay more attention to what’s going on here..
Report Post »whereareyourbrains
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:57amWe do need to pay more attention. But half of these people on this sight have been BRAINWASHED. They like Mitts pretty hair……..They like Mitt cause he had one decent debate with no ideas. All he did was throw out jabs to Newt (COACHED) I see the lemming went for it and now they think he is Obama’s brother..lol…………………Newt has ideas………..he knows how to impliment them………….he has done it before…..(proof is out there)…………Mitt helped companies go bankrupt and reorganize (like Obama) We do not need an accountant for president………but the lemmings are trained to follow the tv anchors……….
Report Post »Babeuf
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 8:58amIt has been apparent for over a year that Mitt Romney has been chosen to be the next Republican nominee for president. He is next in line and has the track record and inclination to slow down but not reverse the downward spiral in which the nation finds itself; but above all to fall in line with what is expected of a Republican insider. Perhaps coincidentally, he has spent many millions of dollars hiring consultants and beltway pros, and has the fundraising capacity and personal wealth to keep on employing them. Thus he is the ideal candidate of the Establishment.
Report Post »http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/01/the_republican_establishments_strategic_blunder.html
NC
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:16amI think TheBlaze has this wrong. This afternoon Trump will announce he is not endorsing anyone…yet.
This leaves him available for the third party run.
It’s called “showmanship”.
NC
Report Post »crackerone
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:12amSet to announce, he and Callista use the same barber.
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 7:09amFunny how The Blaze found a picture of the Donald, that’s least flattering. Bet if he comes out for Flipper or Rick, you’ll find a “more appropriate” picture.
Report Post »If Trump does go for Newt, it’ll be because of his superior Economic plan, which one of Glenn’s favorite Economists, Art Laffer, says is the best one of ALL the candidates.
Babeuf
Posted on February 2, 2012 at 9:32amshhhhh don’t say that… Laffer will now be known as a Progressive!
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