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You keep coming in third, you're not much of a frontrunner. >> what state coming up do you think you can win? >> i don't know yet. i don't know yet, brett. we're looking at a number of them. we're in sort of a halftime. louisiana is the halfway point. we're having like a football team, we're having a halftime resetting of the game plan. >> like a football team. that was newt gingrich last week refusing to call it quits. if is halftime, why is he sitting out a big part of the contest in the locker room? he had no campaign events saturday or sunday and has none scheduled today. he also won't be ...

Ballot which mitt romney will fail to win, then rick santorum would have a genuine chance at winning an open floor fight. he doesn't have a chance otherwise, he has no ability to beat mitt romney and his organization and his money. >> rick -- i just have to follow up with that. of course he has the ability to be -- you look at michigan, ohio, romney bombed santorum with money in ohio, and if newt gingrich wasn't in the race, santorum would have beaten him decisively. >> well, explain that -- in the united states, but explain that theory to me in california, in new jersey, in new york. that the...

It forward. he won't grant us the actual facts of the votes we've counted. and he wants to talk about the votes that are months away. eric, what rick is essentially saying is okay, hey, everybody, let's just keep playing, seems pretty clear to us, that even romney isn't going to get the delegates he needs in the election process to go into the convention with the nomination. so we will all show up in florida with our delegates and then we can talk. and if rick santorum's way ahead of newt gingrich, maybe there's some kind of deal to be made. let's just wait until florida. what's wrong with tha...

Er eric, santorum is beating gingrich consistently in these things. you have a wipeout of mitt romney in all these campaigns. what does rick santorum have to do to convince -- not newt gingrich but other republicans to rise up and say, come on, let's narrow this race? >> i'm not a political strategist, i have to say that if he continues to say what he believes in, i have a funny feeling that the obama administration is probably more afraid of san forum at this point than they're willing to admit. he has an ability to connect with rust-belt middle americans, working class americans. i think tha...

Records reflect they would be able to do that, they would both accommodate washington, he would step aside. he doesn't see that in either of those candidates, why not give people in mississippi a chance to vote for another conservative? >> well, according to that formulation then, he'll never stop aside, because every poll shows president obama beating every one of these guys. rick, come on, you can't keep things going like this. >> things change. >> i want to see the real debate between the conservative and flip-flopper. >> you want to see a newt debate -- >> we'll have to have you guys back ...