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And the notion that he's out of touch. and i agree that he can't become the champion of the middle class, but he can't look like a guy who doesn't care about the middle class, doesn't care about the poor and thinks only in these very large terms about firing people, about reorganizing companies. he's going to have to defend that business record and he is still going to have to put out the 2008 and 2009 taxes in which i suspect he played little or nothing which is why we haven't seen them yet. >> mark, wouldn't you if you are a candidate, a day after he had this big win in florida and this gaff...

Get 'em. >> there some are things you just can't imagine happening in your life. this is one of them. being in donald trump's magnificent hotel and having his endorsement is a delight. i'm so honored and pleased to have his endorsement. >> honored and pleased. i don't know. you don't look too comfortable there. check out the handshake. no one looks comfortable in this picture. in this case, what happens in vegas definitely won't stay in vegas. joining me now is bob shrum, democratic strategist and a professor at nyu and mark mackinnon. and a former adviser to george w. bush and john mccain. th...

Guy with an eight-point lead. mitt romney looks like he's a lock in new hampshire if you're looking at polls there. already shifting his attention to florida, where newt gingri gingriching in could be a factor. how could the polls change as some candidates are expected to drop out? next up for the republican presidential candidates, new hampshire, as i said, and south carolina, and while a good showing in iowa helps a candidate's momentum, they're now playing for actual delegates. these are not caucuses. these are primaries. mark mackinnon, a contributor to anderson cooper and the daily beast ...

Towards obama, whereas, a few months ago looked like republicans could run away with the race next year, what's happened, the reason, the gap closed because president obama has fixed on a very compelling narrative about the middle class squeeze versus the elites, and mitt romney no matter what he does is going to be positioned it's a an elite. rick santorum has a very real blue collar background, can relate to middle class voters in a way that mitt romney never can. so that's where he's got a lot of potential, and that's you know -- white, middle class, blue collar workers is where the core of...

cafe. and official, a few hours ago, mitt romney, 30,015 votes. santorum om eight votes behind, and both candidates coming out to speak before the final votes came in last night. romney moved on. his eyes on the big prize. take a listen. >> you are working, i am working and we're all working together because of our passion for this country and a concern led by a president who may be a nice guy but just is over his head, and i look at his campaign -- you know, four years ago tonight he was giving a victory celebration speech here in des moines, and he'd been going across the state mak...