Solutions 2012, a new super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich's gradually improving presidential campaign, launched Wednesday night during the GOP debate.
"We're going to go into the states and rally the activists, and build the organization Newt needs to win this nomination and beat Obama in the Fall," the group's new website - timefornewt.com - says.
Gingrich has experienced a steady rise in the polls, placing third in the Republican field in both a USA Today/Gallup and NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released earlier this month. If current front-runner Herman Cain begins to fade as mounting sexual harassment allegations beleaguer his campaign, Gingrich is uniquely situated to contend with Mitt Romney for the Republican nomination.
But the ability to build an effective ground organization would be essential to capitalizing on Cain's stumble. Gingrich has thus far struggled to bring in dollars, raising less than a $1 million and leaving less than $500,000 in the bank at the end of the last financial reporting quarter. His campaign is just now stabilizing after the en masse resignation of his top aides earlier this summer.
Charlie Smith, head of the new PAC believes that his organization can help bridge that gap.
“Solutions 2012 will fill the void by making expenditures for GOTV efforts, mail, and television and radio ads,” said a press release from the group.
A video posted to the group's website played up Gingrich's policy knowledge while chiding the other candidates for violating Ronald Reagan's "11th Commandment" by attacking one another.
"While the other candidates attack each other, one is rising in the polls," the video says. "Substance matters."
