Topic: Iowa

Gingrich fades in Iowa and nationally

DAVENPORT, Iowa (Reuters) - Former House of Representatives Speaker Newt Gingrich's status as the front runner for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination is fading after weeks of attacks by rivals and intense media scrutiny of his political record and personality.Gingrich acknowledged that ...

Gingrich under attack at Iowa presidential debate

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Front-runner Newt Gingrich came under sharp attack from rival Republican presidential candidates on Thursday at the last debate before Iowa launches the U.S. 2012 election season.Gingrich is in a tight race with Ron Paul and Mitt Romney ...

Gingrich to face attacks at Iowa 2012 debate

SIOUX CITY, Iowa (Reuters) - Front-runner Newt Gingrich was braced for attacks from rival Republican presidential candidates at a debate on Thursday as they make their case one last time before Iowa launches the U.S. 2012 election season.Gingrich, Ron Paul and Mitt ...

Gingrich at center stage in Iowa debate

DES MOINES (Reuters) - Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich, buffeted by attacks, gets his chance to fight back on Thursday at a debate that may help clarify who will win Iowa's looming contest to choose a presidential candidate.Gingrich takes center stage in Sioux ...

Candidate Gingrich vows fidelity to wife

DES MOINES (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich pledged on Monday to remain faithful to his third wife, fighting back against rivals who have raised his past infidelity as an issue.Gingrich made the vow on a day his poll numbers in ...

Iowa pastor sends out anti-Gingrich video

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - An evangelical pastor in Iowa sent state voters on Thursday a music video slamming Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich for his three marriages and admitted marital infidelities.Cary Gordon, an influential Sioux City pastor who has endorsed Rick ...
White House hopeful Newt Gingrich's surge in the polls has upended the race for the Republican nomination, setting up a key showdown between him and Mitt Romney in the first caucus vote in Iowa.Gingrich has pledged to make near-daily appearances in the ...

Romney to visit Iowa next week but skip forum

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney plans to skip a forum of social conservatives in Iowa this weekend but will campaign in the state next week, his campaign said on Monday.Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, is high in the ...

Republican candidates woo Iowa insiders

DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) - Five Republican presidential hopefuls auditioned for Iowa's party insiders at a fund-raising dinner Friday, sparing each other from criticism but dishing up plenty of red-meat attacks on Washington and President Barack Obama.Two months before Iowa kicks off ...

Romney leads in first four nominating states: poll

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney leads his campaign rivals in the four states that kick off the 2012 Republican presidential race, according to CNN/Time/ORC polls released on Wednesday.Barely more than two months before the first nominating contest, Romney has ...
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