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Newt gingrich edged out romney for second place by just over 1,000 votes. and just before 11:00 eastern time, an even tighter race in mississippi was called for santorum who took in 33% of the vote there. newt gingrich and mitt romney followed with newt in second with 31% and 30% respectively. and just a few hours ago, nbc news declared mitt romney the projected winner. he won 45% of the vote, defe defeating rick santorum by 20 points. withing back to "morning joe." mark haleprin and john -- no michael steele is still with us. and joining us onset, you know, we had given you a few days off. mi...

>> thank you for that. that's awesome. >> now you know. >> thank you, willie. >> i feel like i can move on with my day now. i know everything. >> were your tight clothes harming your health? >> apparently they are. let's go down to "politico." mike allen with a look at the playbook. good morning. >> hey, good morning, guys. >> let's talk about what happened last night, new insight into mitt romney's game plan after two losses last night, he did win hawaii but lost alabama and mississippi. what's their plan going forward? >> well, and won american samoa, don't forget that. >> yes, of course. >>...

Primaries. just after 10:00 eastern time last night, santorum took alabama with 35% support, newt gingrich edged out romney for second place by just under 2,000 votes of the more than 600,000 cast. and just before 11:00 p.m. eastern time, an even tighter race in mississippi was called for santorum who took in 33% of the vote there. newt gingrich and then mitt romney followed with 31% and 30% respectively. and just within the hour, nbc news declared mitt romney the projected winner in the hawaii caucuses. won 40% of the vote, defeating rick santorum by 20 points. good morning, everyone, a live ...

Romney struggled to win over the republican base surfaced again last night with half the voters in mississippi and alabama saying the former massachusetts governor was not conservative enough. >> and what that tells me is the base is basically saying this vote that i get on primary night is about what i want, what i feel, and how i feel about these candidates. so, yeah, you'll see santorum and others win. but when push comes to shove, if not -- if romney is the nominee, i'm going to vote for that nominee because that's the guy i'm going to have to beat obama in the fall. so there's a bifr -- i...

Delegates. this race is now a county-by-county knife fight. second, a bolder message from mitt romney, the base is just not buying the message now. we're going to hear, for instance, look for him instead of talking about replacing barack obama, he's going to talk about defeating obama. he's going to talk more about his own economic plan, cutting taxes and spending, more sources of energy, and pivot to talking more about obama. there's two thoughts about obama. one, as you suggested when you were talking about the messina e-mail, both campaigns know that the clock is ticking. they know they hav...