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romney 22. but that doesn't include hawaii. let's go now to the total delegate count. wrer the magic number to lock up the delegation is 1144. mitt romney is leading with 476 delegates. rick santorum 246 gingrich 131 and ron paul stays with 47. take a look at who is talking besides us bright and early. newt gingrich and rick santorum switching their energy over to president obama. >> almost put this town under with moratoriums and delays in permitting that is getting worse and worse and worse. as a result the ability for the men and women to go out and drill these wells and service these wells to go out and earn an income and more importantly for them to get that oil and gas
comments he made that those who were against educating illegal immigrants "don't have a heart." newt gingrich is taking the lead in several key presidential polls this week in battleground state. here to break it down with us, adam geller and bernard whitman, former democratic pollster for the clinton administration. adam, i will start with you. look at an overall poll that we have that does a look at the gop presidential nomination. gingrich at 26%. romney 22 and cain at 14. gingrich wasn't there a few weeks ago. can he stay there? >> well, he wasn't there a couple of weeks ago. you got to give him credit because he really hung tight and obviously a lot of it has to do with his terrific debate performances. can he stay there is the big question. it is going to take a lot of money and a lot of organization. he has gotten there on the strength of his intelligence and his grasp on the issues. now, the challenge is going to be turning that into dollars
with the obama over the debt limit, and the tea party fights and misk cat returns break out 'w. allergies. bachmann will be their hero. >> the removal of huckabee and trurep bachmann? >> tremendously. because huckabee was the evangelical candidate. the polling has shown the evangelicals and the tea party people overlap. 75% or both evangelical and tea party types. with how come beis out most of those votes are going to romney. >> bill: you see it romney, gingrich and bachmann. but bachmann has to to keep nirp. >> i think you are going to have a three way fight on the right and one on the center.
news for romney because romney is the business candidate, the job creating candidate. and that's what trump was. and romney now has that field almost entirely to himself. and you have gingrich, bachmann and. >> here by your polling and what is it a thousand people. by your polling, this is a boone for romney because the second guy is trump, i mean, sorry, gingrich. and this was before gingrich got into all the trouble. so gingrich is at 11. got to figure he is down to single digits now. >> i don't think so. i think the attacks on gingrich and all of that are way overblown. he said something that was very popular. he said he opposes the medicare cuts in ryan's budget. is very popular. the republican party won congress. >> not republican because of the $500 billion of medicare cuts. >> bill: other political expert. let me make an observation.
asked who you would vote for romney is the clear winner from this whole process. third of the vote told us romney. half of trump's vote told us their second choice was romney. if a poll were taken right now, my bet is it would show romney high 20's, low 30's and probably gingrich around 15. >> gingrich would be second. the poll that you h can why put it up on the screen here? >> romney 22. huckabee 20. trump 15. gingrich 11. palin 9. >> bachmann 6. >> bill: all right. so you take out huckabee as you explained. take out trump, that's 35. and you say most of those go to romney. >> well, probably about 10 of them go to romney. and 10 go to undecided and 10 go to everywhere else. it puts romney up around 30. these early polls don't mean a whole lot. >> bill: i know that look, it's coming fast. >> the trump withdrawal is huge
with the obama over the debt limit, and the tea party fights and misk cat returns break out 'w. allergies. bachmann will be their hero. >> the removal of huckabee and trurep bachmann? >> tremendously. because huckabee was the evangelical candidate. the polling has shown the evangelicals and the tea party people overlap. 75% or both evangelical and tea party types. with how come beis out most of those votes are going to romney. >> bill: you see it romney, gingrich and bachmann. but bachmann has to to keep nirp. >> i think you are going to have a three way fight on the right and one on the center.
with the obama over the debt limit, and the tea party fights and misk cat returns break out 'w. allergies. bachmann will be their hero. >> the removal of huckabee and trurep bachmann? >> tremendously. because huckabee was the evangelical candidate. the polling has shown the evangelicals and the tea party people overlap. 75% or both evangelical and tea party types. with how come beis out most of those votes are going to romney. >> bill: you see it romney, gingrich and bachmann. but bachmann has to to keep nirp. >> i think you are going to have a three way fight on the right and one on the center.
news for romney because romney is the business candidate, the job creating candidate. and that's what trump was. and romney now has that field almost entirely to himself. and you have gingrich, bachmann and. >> here by your polling and what is it a thousand people. by your polling, this is a boone for romney because the second guy is trump, i mean, sorry, gingrich. and this was before gingrich got into all the trouble. so gingrich is at 11. got to figure he is down to single digits now. >> i don't think so. i think the attacks on gingrich and all of that are way overblown. he said something that was very popular. he said he opposes the medicare cuts in ryan's budget. is very popular. the republican party won congress. >> not republican because of the $500 billion of medicare cuts. >> bill: other political expert. let me make an observation.
asked who you would vote for romney is the clear winner from this whole process. third of the vote told us romney. half of trump's vote told us their second choice was romney. if a poll were taken right now, my bet is it would show romney high 20's, low 30's and probably gingrich around 15. >> gingrich would be second. the poll that you h can why put it up on the screen here? >> romney 22. huckabee 20. trump 15. gingrich 11. palin 9. >> bachmann 6. >> bill: all right. so you take out huckabee as you explained. take out trump, that's 35. and you say most of those go to romney. >> well, probably about 10 of them go to romney. and 10 go to undecided and 10 go to everywhere else. it puts romney up around 30. these early polls don't mean a whole lot. >> bill: i know that look, it's coming fast. >> the trump withdrawal is huge
asked who you would vote for romney is the clear winner from this whole process. third of the vote told us romney. half of trump's vote told us their second choice was romney. if a poll were taken right now, my bet is it would show romney high 20's, low 30's and probably gingrich around 15. >> gingrich would be second. the poll that you h can why put it up on the screen here? >> romney 22. huckabee 20. trump 15. gingrich 11. palin 9. >> bachmann 6. >> bill: all right. so you take out huckabee as you explained. take out trump, that's 35. and you say most of those go to romney. >> well, probably about 10 of them go to romney. and 10 go to undecided and 10 go to everywhere else. it puts romney up around 30. these early polls don't mean a whole lot. >> bill: i know that look, it's coming fast. >> the trump withdrawal is huge