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Newt Gingrich is a political adviser and author. A former Georgia congressman, Gingrich served as Speaker of the House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. Gingrich sought the GOP nomination for president in 2012.

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Newt Gingrich
stated on September 29, 2022 in On Fox News:

Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman’s tattoo references ‘heroin use’ and the Crips

By Michael Majchrowicz • October 5, 2022
Newt Gingrich
stated on July 23, 2017 in an interview on Fox News:

In economic growth, "Obama's best year was slower than Bill Clinton's worst year."

By Louis Jacobson • July 27, 2017
Newt Gingrich
stated on June 27, 2017 in an appearance on 'Fox & Friends':

Under the House health care bill, Medicaid spending "actually goes up 20 percent over the next 10 years."

By Joshua Gillin • June 28, 2017
Newt Gingrich
stated on May 21, 2017 in an episode of "Fox and Friends":

Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich "apparently was assassinated at 4 in the morning, having given WikiLeaks something like 53,000 emails and 17,000 attachments. ... It turns out, it wasn’t the Russians."

By Lauren Carroll • May 23, 2017
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 2, 2016 in a radio interview.:

"We adopted the modern Social Security system at a time when the average person died before they were old enough to get Social Security."

By Warren Fiske • December 12, 2016

Various media reports 2
stated on November 10, 2016 in news media reports:

Newt Gingrich has been a proponent of selecting a president by popular vote instead of the Electoral College.

By Ariella Phillips • November 16, 2016
Red, White and Blue Fund
stated on February 24, 2012 in a campaign ad:

"Gingrich supported individual health insurance mandates."

By Molly Moorhead • March 2, 2012
Restore Our Future
stated on February 15, 2012 in a television ad:

Newt Gingrich "co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China’s brutal one-child policy."

By Eric Stirgus • February 15, 2012
Restore Our Future
stated on December 14, 2011 in a television ad:

Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."

By Angie Drobnic Holan • February 7, 2012
Mitt Romney
stated on January 25, 2012 in a Spanish-language radio ad:

Says Newt Gingrich said "Spanish is the language of the ghetto."

By Aaron Sharockman • January 25, 2012

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