In an interesting turn of events, Newt Gingrich seems to be folding tent and slipping from the stage of the final push to the finish at the GOP convention. Albeit his contention that he is just shifting tack on his obviously ill fated and sinking campaign may seem to some to be reasonable.
The bottom line, the man shot himself in the foot so frequently over the past three months of this campaign that when it came time to put his own horse down, he has run out of ammunition. Sadly, Gingrich will now be remembered as the man who would be king, except for his own mouth.
Newt Gingrich is laying off a third of his campaign staff and cutting back on his schedule in an effort designed to sustain the candidate’s long-shot ambitions of winning the nomination at the Republican National Convention, Fox News confirms.
Michael Krull, who took the helm as campaign manager when Gingrich suffered a mass staff exodus in June, has been replaced by deputy campaign manager Vince Haley, a longtime policy adviser to the former House Speaker.
“Michael Krull took over the campaign in June at a moment of great turmoil and helped get us to a point where we were the national frontrunner," wrote communications director Joe DeSantis in a statement. "But Newt and he agreed that it was best for him to step aside for this new phase.”
The staff shakeup, first reported by Politico, is designed around a “big choice convention” strategy, which the campaign says will be built around two goals: showing how Gingrich is the most capable candidate to take on the president and courting delegates in anticipation of a brokered convention.
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