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Two people manning a table and huge money. dave: will key endorsemen endorsements, it doesn t look like there will be endorsements, because word that jeb bush would remain neutral and there was a report that he would endorse mitt romney, that was false. we re told he ll stay out of the game. what about the governor, rick scott, questions about him, two highly unfavorable numbers, but not with republicans, very good numbers with republicans, we don t yet know who or if it will matter. newt very much the anti-establishment candidate right now. i don t know if they ll help. we discuss whether nicky haley helped or hurt in south carolina? right, i heard mike huckabee last night come out and say the hardest thing for a candidate to do is come out and rally the troops after a loss, basically not winning and that s what mitt romney had to do and what he did last night was remind everybody who supports him, that he thinks ....
Weren t suppose today late deciders 44%. conservatives, 44%. evangelicals, 44%. and married women, 41%. and this is not what pup dits predicted. what s the take away here? well, the take away is the republican establishment, the washington republican establishment got it wrong and they re upset. the firewall for them and mitt romney is definitely florida. and if mitt romney starts to falter there, they re going to start looking for another candidate. mitch daniels is being bantied about, the governor of indiana. don t be surprised if they get him to throw his hat back in the rick. come on, really, isn t it too late? i m telling you, they don t like, right, they don t like newt, the establishment doesn t and the reason is, because he doesn t play well with them. he s totally an independent person and he doesn t play well with the establishment and they ve got to find somebody. alisyn: you talked about how you think that the speaker of the house in south ....
Big money guy who has a vested interest in romley will do everything they can to stop him i m not sure they can. alternative is now newt and think he can win and basically beat obama and that s what they want. it seems the more the establishment gets on board, with mitt romney, the more the voters push back against that. so that could going to war with newt actually help him? i think it will. the only thing that sometimes when former members of congress that serve with him and governor of states, and certainly didn t work with the governor in the state of south carolina didn t help romney. and you see the big players of the last eight, ten years say newt may take us down, may take the house and senate down, but we think we have great chances, i m not sure that. i think the bottom line is let it play out and newt s a great debater and now people think he can basically beat obama and you ll see a surge in the polls, the next ten days where he wi ll lead basically not ....
I don t shrink from competition. i embrace it. i believe competition makes us all better and i know it s making our campaign stronger. alisyn: mitt romney s campaign now focusing on florida after gingrinewt gingri decisive south carolina win. our next guest says he wasn t surprised, he called the newt victory. dave: joining us is columnist and former speech writer for george w. bush, good morning to you, sir. good morning, how are you? we are good. mitt romney says he doesn t shrink from competition, he embraces it, how does he bounce back? well, he didn t embrace it this weekend in south carolina. if you remember a week ago, newt gingrich was on the ropes in south carolina, last sunday we were on this program talking about how gingrich had been booed at the candidate forum that huckabee held over attacks on bain and rush limbaugh and wall street journal going after him and opened a ten point eid and a week later he s the winner in south carolina. ....
alisyn: in south carolina, i don t know if that holds true for the rest of the country and florida jo and how long will this against the elite media attack work for newt gingrich and we ll discuss this, this is about delegates, we won t bog you down too much with numbers, but mitt romney has the overall lead in terms of delegates. at the latest count romney at 33, newt gingrich at 25. santorum and ron paul doing well as well. the number you need the magic number 1,144 delegates to lock up the nomination and we go to florida where 50 delegates are up for grabs. alisyn: that s a winner takes allstate. florida is important whoever gets those 60 could catapult them into the lead and that s a big deal. last night, they talked about florida and already have their sights set on florida and newt talked to his crowd about what he needs for them. by the way, anyone here who ....