Newt: Nancy Said Reagan Passed Me The Torch

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Touting his Reagan credentials, Newt Gingrich said that in 1995, Nancy Reagan told him that Ronald Reagan passed him the torch to lead the Republican party under his mantle.

The conversation was a result of several attacks on the Speaker today by the Romney camp, seeking to cripple him as an anti-Reaganite before the Florida primary.

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