Recent stories featuring Newt Gingrich

Did Newt Gingrich pay a $300,000 'fine'?:

We're revising our ruling to Mostly True.

PolitiFact's guide to the Florida GOP primary:

We review our fact-checking of the TV ads and debates for the Florida primary.

Fact-checking the Florida primary:

What were some of the sharpest attack lines of the past week?

Contest for Hispanic vote heats up GOP primary:

We fact-check two claims as Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich fight for the Hispanic vote in the Republican primary for president.

Fact-checking the Tampa Republican debate:

The Republican debate in Tampa turned into a sparring match Monday night as Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney attacked each other on their records in political office.

Gingrich began the debate with a spirited defense of his record as speaker of the House of Representatives. He repeated a claim we've heard before, that "When I was speaker, we had four consecutive balanced budgets." In fact, two of those balanced budgets occured after he left office. We rated that claim False.

Romney attacked Gingrich for his record, claiming that "at the end of four years, he had to resign in disgrace. We interviewed experts about Gingrich's resignation and found that it was more complicated than Romney described.