> welcome back to weekends with alex witt. the polls open in south carolina for two and a half hours now. the first in the south primary of the 2012 presidential election. mitt romney meeting with voters in greenville headquarters. south carolina governor nikki haley and bob mcdonald joined him. the turnout means a great deal to us. it has every indication this is going to be a close race. the work you do can make the difference between winning and losing. as we found out in iowa every vote counts so make sure we do our part. newt gingrich is rallying voters this morning. the former speaker of the house held a meet and greet this morning at a restaurant in spartanburg. we need to make sure everybody turns out to vote and convince everybody that the only
newt gingrich is creeping up in the polls after this week s debate, but mitt romney is still the national frontrunner. today, the two battle it out over breakfast. both candidates will be in the same diner at the same exact time. see you at tommy s ham house. tommy s ham house, newt gingrich didn t know about it until we talked to him. we talked to tommy of tommy s ham house live this morning. here s what he has to say about the excitement in his restaurant. i told you here s what he has to say, i want to tell you stay tuned and we ll tell you what he has to say. you want to hear tommy because it s really interesting. two possible presidents, one possible president, with two presidential candidates in his restaurant at the same time in less than three hours. we start this news cast in south carolina where polls opened one hour ago. voters there are choosing a republican presidential nominee. let s get right to the palmetto state. don lemon is at a polling place in lexin
south carolina, alex, received within the last 48 hours. you see all of this mail? not a lot of it is very nice as you can imagine. the gentleman who let us show you this said he got two row bow calls the last 24 hours as well. to give you a sense, though, there is going to be perhaps the best metaphor what is going on right now is what will happen this morning at a place called tommy s country ham house, both newt gingrich and mitt romney scheduled to be there at roughly the exact same time and same place. cue the tumble weeds. that is going to be a good showdown. that is going to be great. hold that up to the camera. i want to see a fan display. in 48 hours that s how much has come into this household? there it is. is there a positive one. pretty much everything else ain t so nice. i can see by the pictures there and the exclamation on the center picture. thank you, peter. you heard peter talking about tracking the candidates today. newt gingrich started the day at a restaura