Newt Gingrich said Tuesday that while he will support Donald Trump and his choice for secretary of state, he can think of "20 other people" who are more compatible with Trump's foreign policy vision than contender Mitt Romney.
While chatting with Tucker Carlson on Fox News, the former Republican speaker of the House said that since Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential nominee and an outspoken Trump critic during the primaries, once wanted to be commander in chief, there was a question of how much Romney would "represent himself" while traveling around the world. He then dragged Secretary of State John Kerry into it, saying Romney might follow his "tradition" of going from "five-star hotel to five-star hotel, having nice gourmet dinners with foreign ministers. To what extent would he actually represent the kind of tough-minded, America first policies that Trump has campaigned on?"
Throughout the campaign, Gingrich was a top surrogate for Trump, and he seems to be gunning for another Trump backer — former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. On Monday, he said there are "huge advantages" to having Giuliani as secretary of state, and he has the "right temperament" to "represent American interest in the way that Trump campaigned."
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