Newt Gingrich will "debate" Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley on NBC's Meet the Press Sunday, his second big appearance on an NBC political show in less than a week.
A prominent New Hampshire backer of Jon Huntsman has "severed all bonds" with his campaign over "a ‘lack of integrity and honesty of the parties within the campaign’ regarding financial matters,” NBC News' Jo Ling Kent reports.
Newt Gingrich's campaign comeback is so total that one of dozen staffers who quit is campaign in June is publicly begging to be rehired.
Dave Carney rode the highest moments of Rick Perry's Presidential campaign. Can he revive it now?
The former House speaker leads polls in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, so he was the prime target for fellow Republicans in Saturday's debate. They missed him.
The New York Times examines how the wealthy politician balances lavish tastes and an "instinctive" frugality.
Newt is back and climbing the Republican polls with a bullet. At Saturday's debate in Iowa, it's time to start imagining him as president.
Donald Trump has fallen so far that on Friday Rush Limbaugh discussed the idea, brought by a caller, that the reality star and momentary Republican kingmaker is actually President Obama's "Trojan horse."
If the Republican presidential candidate is to beat President Obama, he or she can't just win over Americans with the power of words or some bipartisan proposals -- there has to be a connection made on a deeper, gut level, even a hormonal level.
Reporters covering the presidential election are girding for a Bush-Kerry-esque battle between Mitt Romney and President Obama. But that's so boring! So now's the time to start fantasizing about more dramatic outcomes.
Newt Gingrich might have sounded supremely confident when he said "I will be the nominee" this month, but his activities 25 days before the first caucuses in Iowa indicate he's still hedging his bets.
Over the last four years Stephen Colbert has transitioned from a comedian who has some opinions on politics to a political activist who's hilarious.
Former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu and former Missouri Sen. Jim Talent held a conference call with reporters on Thursday morning that was supposed to be about how Newt Gingrich criticized a Republican plan to overhaul Medicare as "right-wing social engineering," but it was really about Gingrich being a jerk.
We've noted the history of Donald Trump's image in New York tabloids, but it's the glossy magazines that tend to portray Trump the way he wants his public persona to be seen -- and in the last decade, that's meant a loud, rich, rap star-playboy-CEO.
The Republican presidential candidates, addressing the Republican Jewish Coalition forum, struggled to find a way to distinguish their foreign policy ideas from President Obama's without saying something like, "Osama bin Laden should still be alive." But they still had a few ideas.
President Obama's reelection team took Newt Gingrich's presidential campaign as seriously as Gingrich did -- which appears to be not all that seriously.
Though Herman Cain suspended his campaign Saturday, the money his fans donated -- possibly millios of dollars -- is still good, and he can use it nearly however he wants as long as he doesn't directly pay himself.
It's funny how the only two Republican presidential hopefuls who consented to be photographed with Donald Trump are Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin.
The Republican Party's internal class war between the haves and have-mores is getting heated as the soundbite driven small donors bitterly denounce the quieter party elite for picking a presidential candidate they don't like, Mitt Romney.
So far, the Republican presidential field has been slow to jump on Donald Trump's latest bandwagon.
What could be a better holiday gift for reporters than Newt Gingrich becoming the frontrunner of the Republican presidential primary?
Three hundred Herman Cain fans released a collective disappointed "awww" when their guy announced he was suspending his campaign, and now the race is on to see who can make those sad people smile again.
The 2012 Republican primary probably won't be much like the 2008 Democratic primary, but Mitt Romney's campaign is organizing just in case the nomination fight against Newt Gingrich lasts all the way into the spring.
In the three decades it took for Newt Gingrich to climb from impoverished college professor to multi-millionaire presidential candidate, he made some enemies along the way.
Gloria Cain won't do any more interviews to support her husband, but she will let herself be named "the National Chairperson for 'Women for Cain,'" an unusual new website launched to show the Republican presidential candidate still has strong support among female voters.
Evangelical Republicans can either vote for someone who believes and lives the values they share, or they can vote for someone who might actually win.
Herman Cain gave Ginger White money to pay for her "month-to-month bills and expenses" without telling his wife, he explained to the New Hampshire Union-Leader's editorial board Thursday, but she understands.
Just days before Rick Perry announced he was running for president, he said he'd retired the orthopedic shoes he needed for his back pain and said triumphantly, "I'm back in the boots!"
Mitt Romney has "no road map" for dealing with Newt Gingrich, a man they never expected to actually challenge him for the Republican presidential nomination, The Washington Post's Philip Rucker and Peter Wallsten report.
Herman Cain says the people are sticking with him through these terrible allegations of all kinds of sexual misconduct, and if you look at Zazzle, he's right.
While Newt Gingrich has many opinions on many things, a running theme of his record of provocative public has been his opinion of himself and how he stacks up against other great -- and not so great -- minds.
Herman Cain was "somber" when he told a staffers that he would "reassess" whether the latest allegation of sexual impropriety made it impossible to continue his campaign, but by Tuesday night Cain had his game face back on.
With 36 days left until the GOP's Iowa Caucus and 57 days remaining until the 2011 Oscar nominations are announced, the candidates and Best Picture hopefuls have begun to run together in our thoughts. Naturally, Ron Paul is Moneyball.
His fellow Republican presidential candidates were reluctant to comment on accusations that Herman Cain sexually harassed several women in the 1990s, but now that a woman is claiming they had a long-term consensual affair, they're ready to speak out.
A lot of Herman Cain's problems on the campaign trail have come from the fact that he doesn't seem to use the same dictionary as the rest of us.
Hardly anyone is paying attention to Mitt Romney but the Democratic National Committee.
We don't have to imagine what it'd be like for Newt Gingrich to be the on the Republican presidential ticket -- he already was once, if unofficially and against his will.
Atlanta businesswoman Ginger White told Fox 5 Atlanta her 13-year affair with Herman Cain began when he invited her up to his hotel room after a National Restaurant Association event, describing an episode that sounds a bit like what some of the women who accused Cain of sexual harassment have alleged.
Past Republican presidential candidates have taken care to show their kinder, gentler, more compassionate side. Not Mitt Romney. He has to prove he can be mean.
With a familiar rise in the polls, comes in a proliferation of Newt news nuggets, so far today we're learning how Gingrich balances his life as a candidate with his work as a self-publisher.
Mitt Romney attacked the position Newt Gingrich took on immigration -- let's not deport everybody -- in last week's debate, but he backed the same idea in 2006.
After getting an endorsement from New Hampshire's Union Leader paper Sunday morning, a new video is circulating of an interview showing Bill Clinton offering some praise for his old foe and current Republican hopeful.
Newt Gingrich's campaign has added a big endorsement in the state of New Hampshire from the publisher of the New Hampshire Union Leader, Joseph McQuaid.
Conservatives aren't quite sure how to respond to sexism, even when it's really obvious, and even when it's against a woman on their side.
At Tuesday's Republican debate, Gingrich didn't call for making all illegal immigrants citizens, or even allowing all 11 million or so to stay in America, but for some who've been here for decades to get "red cards," establishing a special new class of non-citizens. For this, he is "brave."
The draw of all these Republican debates is the chance to see how the candidates act unscripted, and Tuesday night we learned that under pressure, some forget their name while others spill state secrets.
Several stories looking into Mitt Romney's pre-politics life that have been published this week have a common theme: he has a remarkably consistent history of being puzzled by regular people.
The Republican presidential primary debates have shaped the race a lot this year, but mostly in one way: making candidates not named Mitt Romney look bad. Tonight they take on foreign policy.
Newt Gingrich has pitched himself as an ideas man, and as his presidential campaign accelerates, so does the rate of the generation of his ideas.
'I feel like Dr. Phil,' says moderator Frank Luntz
After conservatives criticized Herman Cain for his stumbling response to an answer about unions' collective bargaining power, his campaign sent out a press release that's a shorter version of the entire Cain campaign -- not-quite-factual statements, a refusal to offer details, and the hope that everyone will be distracted if he shouts "Ronald Reagan!" loud enough.
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