Newt: If Trump Wants Romney, ‘I’m for Romney’

‘Nobody in the Lincoln Cabinet actively opposed his election up to Election Day’

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GINGRICH: "Look, first of all, nobody in the Lincoln Cabinet actively opposed his election up to Election Day. They were rivals until he got the nomination. And then they were all for him. So there’s a — Romney doesn’t quite fit that pattern. But, second, I’m very comfortable if, given the amount of time he’s put into this, if president-elect Trump says, I want Romney, I’m for Romney. He has spent more than enough time talking with Mitt, and Mitt had a good occasion yesterday in accepting the call from Taiwan to understand that President Trump is going to be his own leader in foreign policy, and he’s looking for somebody to be his secretary of state, not the State Department’s. If he concludes that Romney can do the job best, I’m for Romney."

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