Romney challenged the former speaker of the U. Gingrich attacked him last week for not releasing his tax returns. New opinion polls show Mr. Gingrich has jumped into the lead in Florida before its Jan. A Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely Republican voters put Mr.
Gingrich ahead by nine percentage points, while an Insider Advantage poll gave him an eight-percentage-point lead. Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who also previously led private equity firm Bain Capital, hit Mr. Gingrich hard on character issues. Just as Mr. Romney was on the defensive over taxes last week, Mr. Gingrich had to explain his Freddie Mac role Monday. Gingrich also said he would work to get his consulting contract with Freddie Mac released.
Romney has now won just one of the first three states in the nominating process. The loss has left him scrambling to carry Florida, a state where he had once enjoyed double-digit leads in polls. He has gone into attack mode to try to stop the momentum Mr. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation. Good Subscriber Account active since Shortcuts.
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Since , he said, they had averaged forty-five per cent of the vote and a victory margin of seventeen per cent. But none of the prior winners had started the final week so far behind in the polls, and none of them had been heavily outspent by another candidate. Newt overcame both of these things.
In the circumstances, he could afford to be magnanimous in his victory speech, and he was. Paul was right about the monetary system and had been for twenty-five years; Santorum had displayed great courage in Iowa; Mitt was a hard-working fellow who did a terrific job at the Winter Olympics.
Yes, that Mitt—the one Newt has spent the past month depicting as a job-destroying, company-looting, tax-evading plutocrat. The former Speaker, it was clear, had now moved on. Saul Alinsky? In this one, he came up three times, which was twice more than Romney did. If you suspect that most Americans had no idea who Gingrich was talking about, you are right. But Newt is a lot cannier than he sometimes appears. They let the aura, the anger, and the erudition pour over them, and it feels good.
Now onto Florida. Romney has money which means ads , endorsements—but not one from Jeb Bush, it emerged Saturday night , and an estimated two hundred thousand votes that have already been cast in advance of polling day. In an electorate that may total 1. Why so? Lots of reasons. There are two television debates to come—Monday and Thursday—where he will get the opportunity to demonstrate, yet again, that he is a far better speaker than Mitt.
Plus—and this is important—most of the dirt on him is already out there.
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