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Politics. so this is going to be a debate that begins tomorrow morning in new hampshire and will go on for a few months. and i'm convinced that the republican party will pick an heir of reagan, a committed conservative and somebody with a track record of changing washington. >> reporter: newt gingrich there tossing down the gauntlet, talking about the truth in this campaign, the truth remains here in south carolina, and the chairman of the gop here confirmed this. the race here is wide open right now. nothing happened in iowa last night that would change that. >> you mentioned before that, dav...

His record than it is on politics, so this is going to be a debate that begins tomorrow morning in new hampshire and will go on for a few moptsds, and i'm convinced that the republican party will pick an era of reagan and somebody with a track record of changing washington. i want to say two last things and i think crystal will join me in both of these. the first is and i think you'll find rick santorum saying the same thing. my dad was a career soldier for 27 years. i would not have survived in this campaign against millions and millions of dollars of negative advertising if it weren't for th...

>> and we are a little punch drunk, as you can tell. >> it's been quite an exciting night. mitt romney declared the winner here. 30,015 votes. and rick santorum, 30,007. if you do the math, it is eight votes that separated them. and as ashleigh's been saying, you should always exercise your right to vote. that last precinct, we had to wait until they reported in order to get to these numbers. it was back and forth and back and forth. >> like 2 1/2 hours ago. the whole cnn team has been here. in fact, i'm still wondering if they're putting their shoes back on. i saw wolf, john king, g...

the real winner in the caucuses, though it may have certainly been rick santorum who truly, within eight votes just missed the top spot. take a look at those numbers on your leaderboard. it's just absolutely miraculous. the closest iowa caucus vote in history. the top four, mitt romney, santorum, ron paul and newt gingrich. >> and it didn't become official until about 2:30 eastern time this morning if you were watching. so we have romney congratulating santorum. and he says that he and santorum are actually both winners. and both candidates are looking forward now to new hampshire, t...

michele bachmann, the congresswoman from minnesota, only 5%. jon huntsman, the former utah governor, 1%. let me show you our official projections as of right now. we'll put it up on the board over here. we can't project who wins or comes in second, because it is so close between rick santorum and mitt romney, but we can project that ron paul, the congressman from texas, will come in third. newt gingrich, the former speaker of the house, will come in fourth. rick perry, the governor of texas, will come in fifth. michele bachmann, the congresswoman from minnesota, will come in sixth, a...