Speaking after the vote in NH, Newt Gingrich vowed to continue to South Carolina, saying he was “going to offer the American people something very different.” He meant a new platform of ideas, but what he’ll be unleashing in the next few days will also be an enormous ad buy targeted against Mitt Romney.
Gingrich said one reason he was running was because of the opportunity to unify the country. He touted how much he achieved while he was House Speaker even though the President was a Democrat, and said, “If we’d had a Republican House, a Republican Senate and a Gingrich presidency it would have been amazing how much we could have got done.”
He did not at any point reference Mitt Romney by name, though he did note that “we need someone who is capable of debating Barack Obama.” In the last few days a key part of his anti-Romney barrage has been that Romney’s “moderate” background means he will not provide a convincing contrast to the President on the debate stage.
