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DES MOINES, Iowa (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich’s campaign struggled to fend off more bad news on Tuesday after he was quoted supporting main rival Mitt Romney’s healthcare reform in Massachusetts.
Gingrich, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, has seen his poll numbers drop in the early-voting state of Iowa under a blitz of negative ads accusing him of being an unreliable Washington insider.
He tried to regain some of his lost momentum in a pugnacious interview with CNN in which he used some of his strongest language yet to attack his main opponents.
Recognizing that Texas congressman Ron Paul’s rise in Iowa endangers his chances of a top finish in the state, Gingrich said: “I think Ron Paul’s views are totally outside the mainstream of virtually every piece of America.”
Adding to Gingrich’s troubles, new court documents appeared that seem to contradict his account of how he divorced his first wife in 1980.
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