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focus on the nation's solutions. i don't do nearly as well when i focus on my competitors. and so we took the lesson that has worked twice in the last three months. my fundraising has always been difficult because when you're a candidate with bold, new ideas it takes a while. we have 164,000 donors. i think we'll actually be just fine. martha: revelation tph-s there that we'll talk about in a moment. the latest "real clear politics" average shows gingrich in third place at 18% according to that poll. rick santorum in first place, mitt romney in second, and ron paul in fourth place. we are joined now by former south carolina governor mark sanford, he is a fox news contributor. governor, welcome, good to have you here this morning. >> pleasure, thank you. martha: it's very interesting. i just love that you sort of get inside the mind of newt gingrich in that first sound byt earnings that wyte we played. he decided if he goes positive
they'll be in trouble. >> steve, ari and karen, thank you all so much for joining me tonight. let's just recap what was a big night for rick santorum. he is the apparent winner of all three contests tonight. santorum, the apparent winner in colorado. with mitt romney in second. in minnesota, nbc projecting santorum wins followed by paul and romney in third and gingrich in fourth. in missouri, santorum won 55% of the vote with romney in second place with 25%. let's send you back now to lawrence. he has a look at what else is ahead on "the last word." >> lynn berry, thanks for the update. coming up, if you can't beat them, join them. president obama signs off on super pacs backing his re-election. and later, the contraception coverage mandate by the obama administration. mark scheels joins me, and don't be surprised if he says a few things you might not agree with. and later, we'll be joined by the couple whose case overturned proposition 8 today
for somebody who ran what i think would be looked upon as a some what timid campaign and failed to take the opportunities presented to him by the attacks on him to make a ringing defense not only of himself but the system in which he worked and the way he worked in it. >> meaning mitt romney. >> yes. >> speaker gingrich often mentions ronald reagan and brings him up almost every speech. ronald reagan also tapped into that emotion, that feel that the conservative base wanted at it. do you see the same thing happening on a different scale? a different time? >> i think they are very different people. very different personality. much of what gingrich showed tonight and regan occasionally showed flashes of it it but not the way gingrich has. gingrich is a guy that is angry a lot of the time. when tried it out in early debate it didn't move. it worked in south carolina. whether it will travel well. whether as it has been suggested tonight if he picks up that theme and pounds away it will carry over in other states remains to be seen.
digital equipment in the air as people take pictures. the gingrich campaign made the argument that he doesn't need the money. social media and his innovation and use of technology and social media has helped the gingrich campaign in ways that the romney campaign didn't attempt and santorum because they didn't think they needed it. and santorum didn't attempt because they couldn't afford it and have the horse to do so. gingrich considers himself a innovativor and they are counting on social media to help them out with money. they want to raise more than 10 million inment next 10 days before florida in an attempt to wall off the south before mitt romney. we haven't seen the speaker or callista yet. >> we'll check in with chris wallace who is down there in dc. >> thank you, megyn.
week and brought a ground game and credited with what they are calling here, a land slide with one geological metaphor and tsunami if you would like a marine one. the newt gingrich campaign is riding high and they are themselves surprised by the breadth of the victory. we'll be introduced to newt in a moment. as we wait for the introduction to end and winner of thitate to come out. they are talking about his ability to wall off the south from mitt romney and clinchh the nomination on the strength of tonight's victryy. 41-26 percent as they continue to count and 50 percent victory far wider and exceeding the poll overperformance for newt gingrich with a victory. the winner of the first south primary. >> innocent it amazing. maybe you can turn around.
>> bret: maybe so. people use their iphones and eye pads for calculators and that sort of thing. >> you are one of them. >> hemmer and i do this on new year's eve every year. and we have the iphones and i can never see anything and never watch the videos. bill, am i alone in that? >> you are not. i use michael crater, too my cn the iphone. this is what amounts to an absolute blowout in south carolina tonight. just look at the results as they come in now from south carolina. right about, okay. so we are 82% reporting. gingrich in the yellow or the lime color. romney in orange. he is at 41%. romney 27%, this is the map of the counties. the 46 counties of south carolina. it is all gingrich with two exceptions. charleston county here and richland county here. contrast with what mccain and huckabee did four years ago. this is mccain in 2008 in the
done at bain capital was illegitimate and playing to poplar sentiments on the right. i was taken by the fact that in all of the comments from the candidates tonighter this talked about it is going to be in the words of ron paul the beginning of a long hard slog. in the words of mitt romney a long primary season. and mitt romney is going to go back now with the help of the republican establishment i think at newt gingrich and make the case that he has never run business. never run a state. and he is joined in the assault and free enterprise. we'll see how that plays out. >> and more to be made in the case against newt gingrich as a republican nominee by republican offensiv office hols across the country. from the latest poll, this is favorability versus
primary season. real quick since 1980. >> let me say he's dying to use it. >> since 1980, south carolina primary, average winning number is 45 percent and averagin is 17. by parison. >> right now gingrich has 41 percent and ahead by -a 15. >> let's be careful oh, my god it is the most historic thing that happened. the guy who came in fifth in new hampshire come in first in south carolina. the nature of the victory in carolina is very much in line historically. >> you are going to poign it out. dick >> iowa 24.6 percent was the winning number. >> that's rick santorum . less than one-10th of a percent. and new hampshire 39 percent for mitt romney and 16 points better than the next guy. and incidentally 30 points better than newt gingrich in
of south carolina won iowa and new hampshire. we are in unchartered territory now. no one has won the tructure that we set up so far meaning the first 3contest going to three different candidatings. >> why then have all of the south carolina winners won the nomination? is there something about different this year? >> it broke the tie. one person won iowa and one in new hampshire and person in south carolina broke the tie. we have three winners. santorum in iowa and mitt romney in new hampshire and newt gingrich in south carolina. and i think sarah palin touched on it earlier, the idea that we keep vote going on. you saw it in the interviews, i was thinking for newt gingrich and romney and newt gingrich and that is a sign f a contest that can on and on. journey is playing in the newt
in terms of what i is coming next. a battle between ideology with newt gingrich. and with mitt romney organization planning structure. mitt romney has been in florida now on the air for nearly a month. he has been working absentee ballot there's since mid december. after long days campaigning in iowa and new hampshire he stopped in to town halls with voters in florida. this is somebody who has been planning for this fight in florida setting up trying to set up something as a firewall. the question is given this what we see in a 25 point swing this week do firewalls even matter any more? >> juan? >> interesting to hear speaker gingrich now try to pick up on the populist idea we are against dependency and entitleist and against what he calls the food stamp president all that. this is the same newt gingrich who introduced the idea that somehow what mitt romney had