Herman Cain is going to endorse Newton Leroy Gingrich. Whatever campaign operation Cain has assembled in Iowa and South Carolina will now go to Gingrich, apparently.
In the first national poll taken since Cain left the race, Gingrich has surged into a double digit lead over Romney, with 37% to Mitt Romney’s 23%. The rest of the field is in single digits. It really is a two man race now.
The Wall Street Journal reports that as much as Donald Trump “relishes his role as Republican kingmaker, he won’t close the door on his own independent presidential bid once the next season of his reality TV show, The Celebrity Apprentice, wraps up on NBC next spring — a prospect that could spell doom for the eventual GOP nominee.” Said Trump: “I absolutely have another bite. If the economy continues to be bad and if the Republicans choose the wrong person, I would do it.”
God help us.