Fox 5 Atlanta reported Sunday that sources said businessman Herman Cain would endorse GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich on Monday.
Cain, a former Godfather’s Pizza CEO, announced Saturday that he was suspending his own campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
Gingrich, who attended the Kennedy Center Honors Sunday night, would not comment when asked by The Hill about reports Cain would endorse him. “No politics tonight,” Gingrich said.
Cain, who has never held elected office, surged to the top of numerous GOP polls after a series of straw poll victories.
In his speech to supporters on Saturday, Cain had indicated that he would endorse another candidate “in the near future.”
His withdrawal from the race brought praise from his GOP rivals. “I am proud to know Herman Cain and consider him a friend and I know he will continue to be a powerful voice for years to come,” Gingrich said in a tweet.
Gingrich, the former House Speaker, has vaulted to the top of numerous GOP national polls. This weekend, two polls also showed him in the lead in Iowa which holds the first-in-the-nation caucuses and gaining ground in the early voting state of New Hampshire.
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They have much in common in terms of background (Gingrich is sort of a southerner, neither were affluent growing up). In his lastest version, Gingrich is a social conservative, sort of. And Gingrich has shown tremendous flexibility in adopting ideas – and Cain’s proposal will relieve taxes for most lower and middle class Americans (for whom the “social security” tax is more burdensome than the “income tax”) while putting social security on a sound foundation by using the full range of tax revenues to fund it.