Newt: It’s Hard To Get Journalists To Cover Positive Speeches

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A fixture of Newt Gingrich’s campaign has been promising to keep a positive message only to pivot moments later to raging vitriol. He’s once again promised to be positive as he reinvents the campaign yet again. A reporter asked him why his “positive” message kept being laced with negative lines in his speeches. “It’s harder to get your profession to cover totally positive speeches,” Gingrich replied. 

He also described as “weird,” the Romney team’s decision to fire the debate coach who, Newt said, had done “a pretty good job” in training him up ahead of the Florida debates. 

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