In an appearance on “Hardball with Chris Matthews” that aired tonight on MSNBC, Newt Gingrich asserted that the tea party wing of the GOP will never coalesce behind presumptive frontrunner Mitt Romney. When asked by Matthews how such an ardently conservative faction of the party will ever express enthusiasm for the former Massachusetts governor at the Republican National Convention in August, Gingrich insisted that they will leave Romney at the altar:
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