Speaker Newt Gingrich spoke at the annual Nackey S. Loeb First Amendment Awards Honors Dinner in Manchester, New Hampshire last night and made himself available to the media before the event to answer a wide array of questions.?The?Manchester (NH) Union Leader and the Associated Press were there to report on the press conference and speech.
Speaker Gingrich is clearly running for president in 2008, even though he claims for now that he will not make a formal decision on the race until September of 2007. But?I have a hard time believing that?someone this passionate about public policy and the future of our country is really going to be able to refrain from entering the fray in time to participate in the first Republican presidential candidates’ debate in South Carolina on May 17, 2007. We’ll see.
November 28th, 2006 at 5:17 pm
Do you have to be an officially declared candidate who has filed with the FEC to participate in the SC debates in May?
November 28th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
I am assuming one needs to be an announced candidate to participate in the South Carolina debate. Otherwise, how do you draw a line?
The other way to look at this is that anyone who participates in the debate is a de facto candidate regardless of whether they have filed or not.
Ultimately it will be up to the South Carolina Republican Party, which is sponsoring the debate, to determine the guidelines.
December 6th, 2006 at 2:02 am
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