Gingrich Backs Kingston in Georgia GOP Runoff

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Saturday endorsed Rep. Jack Kingston over businessman David Perdue in Georgia’s Republican Senate primary runoff later this month.

“I’ve known Jack since we were both involved in building the Republican Party in Georgia in the dark days of Democratic domination,” Gingrich, who served in the House from 1979 to 1999, said in a statement released by the Kingston campaign. “I helped convince him to run for Congress and to win a seat that hadn’t been held by a Republican since Reconstruction.

“As we built and implemented the ‘Contract With America,’ we knew we needed champions to communicate our vision of limited, constitutional government to the American people,” he added. “We needed people unafraid to shake up the status quo in pursuit of advancing principled, conservative leadership.

“Jack Kingston rose to the challenge with a relentless zeal for reform and boundless energy to help implement the platform.”

Kingston, a member of the House since 1993, faces Perdue in the July 22 runoff. The winner will square off against Democrat Michelle Nunn in the November general election to fill the seat of retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss.

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