As GOP changes, Newt Gingrich remains

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MILWAUKEE — The GOP‘s shift toward populism and Trumpism has left some of its elder figures in the lurch. Not so with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich, who engineered the 1994 Republican takeover of Congress, entered the party’s convention stage 30 years later to cheers of “Newt! Newt! Newt!” One woman yelled “We love you!” as he began speaking.

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