Here Comes 'Newt 2012:' Newt Gingrich to Announce Bid for President

NBC News(WASHINGTON) -- Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich hopes it will be the tweet that changes America: Wednesday afternoon, Gingrich will officially announce his presidential campaign via Twitter.   After tweeting the news, Newt will do his first interview as a candidate with his old friend Sean Hannity on Fox News.

Beyond the tweet, here's how the Gingrich campaign will unfold:

 At 8 a.m. Friday in Washington at the Fairmont Hotel, he will give an economics speech sponsored by Laffer Associates -- as in Arthur Laffer, creator of the Laffer Curve and the godfather of supply side economics.  On Friday night, Newt will give his first official campaign speech in Atlanta.

On Saturday, he'll be in Illinois to give the commencement speech at Ronald Reagan's alma mater, Eureka College.  On Sunday, Gingrich will appear on Meet the Press.

Newt will then spend almost all of next week in Iowa -- a dozen campaign events spread out over Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. On Wednesday, he'll head across the border for an event in Minnesota. 

Gingrich's campaign organization has already started to take shape.  He's already secured space for his campaign headquarters in Atlanta and will soon have a campaign office opening in northern Virginia. And he's hired a campaign manager: 36-year-old Rob Johnson who, most recently, ran Governor Rick Perry's reelection campaign in Texas.

The former Speaker of the House will position himself as the experienced conservative: he's the only candidate who can say he personally fought for and delivered a balanced federal budget, tax cuts, and welfare reform -- all signed into law by President Bill Clinton. 

"The response to inexperience should be experience," says Gingrich spokesman Rick Tyler.

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