WASHINGTON – Former House speaker Newt Gingrich yesterday added his name to a small, lacklustre band of Republicans seeking to take on US president Barack Obama in next year’s White House race.
Mr Gingrich tweeted on Monday that he would formally announce his intention to seek the presidency. He is well-known as a generator of ideas and the architect of the Republican victory in 1994, which saw the party take Congress for the first time in 40 years. But he has been out of politics for a decade and, at 67, will be regarded by some voters as too old. Mr Gingrich joins a thin field of Republicans that includes former governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney, former governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty and a former chief executive officer of Godfather’s Pizza, Herman Cain.
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