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 Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks on deficit reduction, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2011, at the Heritage Foundation in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)  

Newt to celebrate wedding anniversary during Hawaiian campaign trip

1:54 PM 08/17/2011
Alex Pappas
Political Reporter

Maybe life on the campaign trail doesn’t always have to be so hard after all.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is taking his presidential campaign to Hawaii next week, according to a public schedule released the campaign.

But it won’t be all work. Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond told The Daily Caller Gingrich and his wife, Callista, will celebrate their 11th wedding anniversary while in Hawaii, in between events.

Hammond said the appearances coincide with several “West Coast fundraising swing” events. Gingrich has struggled to raise money during the campaign and opted out of spending the funds to participate in the Ames Straw Poll.

While in Hawaii, Gingrich on Aug. 20 will travel to Wailuku to for a meeting with the Maui GOP. And on Aug. 23, Gingrich “will discuss the American founding” with students at Seabury Hall Preparatory School in Makawao.

Hammond said the fundraising swing is about “expanding” the campaign’s coalition base. He also said Gingrich saw an “uptick” in fundraising after last week’s Republican presidential debate in Ames, Iowa.

Tags: Elections 2012, Hawaii, Newt Gingrich
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  • Neelie

    Hawaii is the second most Democrat state, DC being the first, and somehow that is a reason Newt should not drum up Rep. support in a state where the “R” word gets you jail time.  He will meet with GOP, Tea Party and talk to the students at Seabury and you refer to this as a 3 day vacation vs a  positive boost that is well needed.  Sorry folks, you are on the wrong page on this one.

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  • Corky

    The Daily Caller has gone out of its way to take shots at Newt.   That is quite evident.   But…. that doesn’t make DC any different than Politico or other similar sites.   This assertion that Newt is irrelevant and unelectable in pure insanity.   A lot of winning a presidential race is convincing the public that you are better then the other guy.   I have seen NOTHING to suggest that Romney, Bachmann, or Perry have what it takes to out-debate Obama on stage, and in public.   Romney and Bachmann sound like slick, scripted used-car salesmen.   Perry is sounding a little too Texan/redneck at this point.   All you have to do is watch Newt’s latest speech (no teleprompter) to The Heritage Foundation on YouTube this week.   There is a massive gap in ideas, command of issues, ability to cite historical references and articulate solution/ideas between Newt and the other contenders.   It’s really not even close.   Dismissing Newt over people like Bachmann or Romney is pure stupidity.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_CIGOVU5V5XU7AEMCXFP44UZDZU smorrow66

    My wife and I ran into Mr. & Mrs. Newt when we got married in Maui in 2008.  We would walk along the path on the beach in Maui and saw them 4 days in a row.  You remember conversations with former Speakers.  Newt was very amiable and polite and took time to talk to everyone.  His wife kind of hung back but was nice and polite also.  Its clear that they have a place there and there is nothing wrong with that.

    However, if you are running for President, you dont take weeks out of your campaigns to go to Hawaii and go on Greek Island cruises, especially if the economy sucks and that is what your campaign is about.

  • lilolme

    Newt, you are an intelligent man, but you haven’t got a clue.

  • Humorless

    So first donors paid for his wife’s jewelry….now they’re paying for vacations to Hawaii….and they keep ponying it up because he says he’s “going to be the next President”!?!?!??   Televangelists got nothing on Newt.

  • jstsyn

    Who cares what the has been does? Got new idiots worse than he was to worry about.

  • jstsyn

    Who cares what the has been does? Got new idiots worse than he was to worry about.

  • dw

    I’d love to see Newt debate the One…The One would be bringing a bb gun to a Howitzer battle.

    Unfortunately, there is that mental picture of Newt sharing a couch with that idiot, pellosi.  And then there’s that verbal imprint of him using the term “right wing engineering”.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_XIORCJCFERNJEPEMSASXQGRYNY Ed F

    He could stay there until election day.  It is not going to affect his chances of being POTUS.

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