WASHINGTON – Some notable moments from Saturday’s Nevada presidential caucuses:
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GINGRICH’S SOUTHERN COMFORT?
It was a week Newt Gingrich probably wants to forget. And fast.
The former House speaker was trounced in Florida’s primary on Tuesday by Mitt Romney, only to stumble again in the next stop, Nevada.
Gingrich bungled a meeting with Nevada’s governor, then was embarrassed after his advisers told reporters that Gingrich would score the endorsement of Donald Trump, only to have the unpredictable real estate tycoon publicly back Romney.
So Gingrich, whose freewheeling campaign is plagued by organizational and money woes, is struggling to rebound after losing Nevada.
That won’t be easy as the race heads to states largely favorable to Romney over the next few weeks, including Romney’s home state of Michigan, as well as Colorado and Minnesota, which Romney won in 2008. More losses could add to the pressure on Gingrich to bow out.
But there may be at least one bright spot ahead for Gingrich: Georgia, which holds its primary on March 6 with nine other “Super Tuesday” states. Gingrich was a Georgia congressman. He scored an upset in South Carolina’s Jan. 21 primary, but it has been Romney ever since.
Gingrich spent much of his time in Nevada raising money
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