Newt Gingrich’s Marriages: Affairs And Divorces

How much weight should the personal lives of presidential aspirants carry in the voting booth? The question of whether or not candidates’ private lives is fair game — or even relevant — to campaign coverage has long been debated by pundits, voters and even the candidates themselves.

This campaign season, no GOP presidential hopeful has come under more scrutiny for his marital history than Newt Gingrich. For almost three decades, the thrice-married former speaker of the House has fielded questions about his split from first wife, Jackie Battley — namely, that he’d served her divorce papers while she was in the hospital undergoing cancer treatment (a story that Gingrich and his daughters have vigorously denied.)

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