fall short of the presidency. which candidate will win tonight that our coverage is underway right now on c-span. we will have the latest results by the gop candidates. you can weigh in with your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. we now begin with a light cast in manchester. >> you are looking at live pictures tonight from the romney campaign headquarters, where they are expecting a good night. good evening, new hampshire. welcome to our special coverage of the first in the nation primary state where the polls are closed. >> the results are already beginning to come in. we really are just in the beginning stages tonight, but with 9 percent of precincts reporting across the state, here is where things stand right now.

mitt romney coming in with 36% of the vote, ron paul behind him with 24%, and jon huntsman sitting in third place with 16% of the vote. keep in mind it is still earlier with just 9 percent of precincts reporting. >> let's take a look at the projected winner. a number of networks are projecting the projected winner in this race tonight will be mitt romney, former governor of the state of massachusetts. the question tonight, by what margin, and who will be no. 3, 4, and 5 spots. newt gingrich and rick santorum calling up in the third and fourth position, gingrich with about 11% and santorum with 10%, with 9% reporting. rick perry and buddy roemer at 1% and 0%ck

respectively. >> there are our reporters. they have fanned out and are monitoring all the campaign headquarters for us tonight. jean is with the romney camp tonight. >> the last of the polls closed at 8:00 and it was really just a matter of seconds before the news spread here, romney has been declared the winner. this happened just a moment ago. supporters started chanting, "mitt, mitt, mitt." tonight is mitt romney's night and it sure did not take long, true to the polls. we are going to go live and see

what the mood is out there. >> i am here with a big supporter of mitt romney. that did not take long. >> governor romney worked extremely hard in new hampshire. he spent an extraordinary amount of time up here. we look forward to heading down to south carolina next. >> not only does he have to win new hampshire, he has to win by a lot. what is the number you are looking for? >> i would like to see him win by one vote more than the next guy. it is not about what the percentage is, it is about the message, what he stands for. he is uniquely qualified with his combination of public and private sector experience. he is the right man to put

america back to work and move america forward. >> there have been a lot of challenges over the last year. he maintained consistency. [cheering] why do you think he was level to maintain his lead so long? >> i think experience and his consistency of message. limited government, unlimited opportunity. >> very good, good to see. i know it is going to be a good night. thank you very much. we are expecting to have mitt romney come out at some length. when he does, we will be right back here. for now, let's send it back to the station. >> number two in the race right now is ron paul, who is being

followed tonight, adam down at the executive court. >> analysts say dr. paul put together one of the mark analyzed -- organized, structured campaign. he grew the volunteers and supporters and made sure they got out the vote today. this is one of those things where the campaign you how well it was going to do. they are wondering if they will see it go up or slide from 25%. better than he has done in the past, and all the force of his ideas. he has been hammering away at the theory behind the economic force and is catching on. in 2008, some of the other candidates were laughing at what he had to say in the debates. of course, no one is laughing now. in manchester we had an

interesting experience today with a candidate. he was -- had a book pressed into his hand, the patron saint of his austrian school of economics. the gunmen was very happy to have dr. paul sign his book. -- the young man was very happy to have dr. paul sign his book. we have a lot of young people in this room whose ideas about politics and economics are being changed. they are going to be around for a long time. ron paul has changed the conversation for sure. it looks like he is coming to the second place finish today. he said it is more about winning the white house than changing the conversation. he said u.n. of one house, then your ideas become policy. -- he said if you win at the white house.

cracks in the month of december, newt gingrich was polling very near the top of this poll as it stretched out in the month of december. then of course i was hit, and everything changed. and he is monitoring of the new gingrich campaign headquarters -- amy is monitoring the newt gingrich headquarters tonight. jack campbell, former gubernatorial candidate is going to talk to us a little bit. he endorsed and newt gingrich about a month ago. how do you think the race has gone for him? >> i am a very biased endorsed. i really love newt gingrich. we just found out that the race has been called, so i am a little disappointed in that. let's be honest, i don't think newt thought he was going to win this race anyway. i am pleased with the way he has conducted himself. i think he can move on to self

carolina, and he does need to win in south carolina. that is essential to keep the race going. >> newt and his campaign have been very forthright from the get go. what was his strategy in coming into new hampshire, into mitt romney is backyard, and spending a full week campaigning? what was he hoping to accomplish here? >> he knew he had to come in here and work hard. i know he wanted to get into the top three. even for right now would not be that bad. at the end of the night, thuringia even fourth right now -- even fourth right now would not be that bad. >> jack campbell, former gop chair, talking about newt gingrich, saying he absolutely must win in south carolina to stay in this race. >> this is early, but it looks like jon huntsman might have a pretty good night in new hampshire. he was hoping things might pay

here, skipping iowa and choosing to stay here and work the streets and reach the voters. >> it might be mitt romney 99. it is also jon huntsman is not. i want to show you what it looks like here at huntsman headquarters. this place is just packed, standing-room-only. we are told there is national and international media. i spoke with some gentleman who were part of the swedish parliament who say they came here to learn about campaigning in how our democracy works. he said it is a very interesting process. somewhere there are reporter squeezed into all this media. the candidates certainly did capture some momentum in the last few days. the huntsman campaign was not really anticipating that would have this many people coming to their campaign headquarters on election night. it is certainly tight quarters.

jon huntsman launched his campaign about six months ago here in new hampshire. he did not have a lot of name recognition or a lot of money. in the last couple of days, he has surged here in new hampshire. the crowd here tonight certainly reflects that. they are telling us there is no way for mitt romney to take the stage and speech. that is the scene here from huntsman headquarters in manchester, new hampshire. i want to send it over to my colleague, heather campbell, who is at the santorum headquarters. >> things are really starting to pick up here at rick santorum's headquarters. you can see a small group of supporters that have already arrived. they are waiting for rick santorum to come as well.

he is hoping to beat some of his opponents that have spent more money and more time here in new hampshire. he says that would prove that his momentum is still going strong. he made a final push today, shaking hands at an elementary school. he has been realistic and very candid about his chances today. he says it comes down to everyone other than mitt romney, how they stack up. senator santorum said he did not have the resources to really lay the groundwork he would have wanted to hear in new hampshire. he did not have the money to do the tv or radio ads. he feels he was not able to put everything into it like he would have wanted to. he feels he has a strong grass- roots campaign and he is hoping that will pay off. he hopes he just continues to move up and then move on to south carolina where he has a more socially conservative base. he is expected to be here at his

headquarters with -- within the hour. we will bring you more information when he does arrive. >> rick santorum looking for the big bounce out of iowa. now on to south carolina and see if he can read booed down there. >> now about the turnout today. the secretary of state, bill gardner, was expecting a total of about 325,000 people to get out there and vote. now that the polls are closed, will we soon start to get an idea of how many actually did cast a ballot? sandy has more on this tonight from nashua. >> you can see behind me that the boat begin voting booths have been cleared out and they are tallying up the votes. >> it was an early morning for a handful of voters who waited in

line to be some of the first to cast ballots in this uniquely new hampshire's tradition. >> it is the way to do it. it is retail politics. it was great. >> we had a line waiting this morning when the polls open. it has been pretty steady, and i expect it to be steady most of the day. >> state officials said they had expected about 250,000 republican votes to be cast, which would be slightly ahead of the 2008 primary and the gop side. in litchfield, early returns were relatively light. officials in that town hope to get more than 20% of their registered voters. in nashua, officials said things were a little slow at ward 3, but the hope for a surge at those who were voting said they were proud to make their voices heard.

>> it is our duty. people die fighting for our country for this exact responsibility, and it is my responsibility to vote. >> we do have some results for you. we have more than 1700 votes cast today. romney with 585, johnson with 221, gingrich with 100. >> to go along with the only new hampshire theme, the projected winner is mitt romney. we are hearing that he might be taking the stage in about 10 minutes. >> his headquarters are starting to ramp up, no doubt to have a possible winner of the new hampshire primary come forward. mitt romney took a bit easier today. >> how do you blow off some steam? you go to the movies. take a look at this. the whole family went. apparently the grown-ups saw "

mission impossible 4" and the kids saw "the muppets." >> we are gearing up for the possibility that mitt romney, former governor of massachusetts, will be heading to the podium very shortly. he has been declared the winner of the new hampshire primary by the associated press and numerous other news agencies. it is one of those things that we will have to wait and see how it all plays out as far as the spread of the numbers. >> we are looking inside the romney campaign headquarters, where we expect to hear from him and about 10 minutes. we will take that live just as soon as it happens. well known in new hampshire, left over from the 2008 campaign, he left the ground work here. he kept some key people here.

when he came back, we knew who he was, and he was going to work this state, and he did. we will talk more about this, and the spread and what it all means as we can work out the numbers from the new hampshire primary. the projected winner is mitt romney and we will hear from him shortly. we will take a quick break, and our coverage continues on the other side of that. >> as we have been hearing fromwmur tv, the associated press is projecting mitt romney is the winner of the republican presidential primary in new hampshire. he is expected to speak shortly from his headquarters in new hampshire. we'll have that live here on c- span. now we will go to the headquarters of newt gingrich in manchester, new hampshire. we will hear from the former

speaker and the other major republican candidates will also give speeches. we will take your calls, at e- mails, and tweets, here on c- span. more live coverage tonight on our website. also, exurbs from the candidate's views on specific issues like the economy, the deficit, and integration. all of that at c-span.org campaign2012. in southate's primary carolina is on january 21, with florida's primary 10 days later. looking down the road, we are covering the early february caucuses in nevada and a week- long caucuses in maine. >> we are looking at jon huntsman headquarters in the state capital of manchester.

>> 10 bus wedged on the stair sometimes, that from a tweet. there is the crowd, waiting for jon huntsman. >> welcome back to our live coverage tonight, from the mitt romney campaign headquarters located at southern new hampshire university, where it mitt romney, the projected winner, is expected to take the podium within the next few minutes in order to address his supporters here in new hampshire tonight. >> we also now know according to one of his sons, that he and his wife took the grandkids to the movies today.

then they went somewhere and waited for the returns to come in. this is a really, really early night. we will talk about that, it being an early nine. we are also waiting for the spread here and who is shaping up for the no. 2 position. it looks like that could be ron paul. polls have indicated this might be the way it goes. a lot of discussion will now be centered on this spread, and as mitt romney moved south and heads to south carolina, is it enough of a spread, visited deficit because it it is not enough of a spread? -- is in a deficit? now we are taking a look at where everybody else's falling in, with 14% of precincts reporting. newt gingrich at 10%, and just behind him is rick santorum at 9%. we will check in with santorum

headquarters. for the past couple of days, the ever downplaying expectations for new hampshire. >> with the romney win by a very small margin over santorum, the question remains, who will be the candidate other than brahney that might challenge him throughout this process? with the third-place showing in iowa and second place in new hampshire, that would appear to be ron paul. however, the conservative wing of the party might have its eye on rick perry from texas, newt gingrich from georgia, and/or creeks santorum from the state of pennsylvania. that is what will play out in the state of south carolina in about 10 days. i guess the pundits and politicos tonight will try to determine what will happen next by the margin of victory for mitt romney and where the others fall behind him. mitt romney expected to call it an early night tonight, expected

to address his leaders here. josh has been following not only the romney campaign but all the campaigns across the state for the last year. your impressions of what you are seeing? >> really no big surprise out here tonight, there is certainly plenty of energy going on. his supporters can say a win is a win. this has been a campaign in the making over the course of the last five years. i think they recognize they need to win new hampshire, and it appears they are doing just that. you can see the crowd out here is very energized. no one is standing on the edge of their seats, wondering how this is going to turn out. >> they knew this would happen. all the polls showed he was the clear front runner in new hampshire. this is the second primary here. back in 2008, he led the state

with second place at 32% of the vote. this time he really goes down in history because he is the first non incumbent republican that wins both iowa and new hampshire. now we will see if this all mentum can carry him onto a trifecta in south carolina, where he is heading first thing tomorrow morning. tonight, he has to get out here and thank the supporters. >> 20 minutes after the polls close, he is coming out here. they are very comfortable this is:to be a big victory. he needed this. things are starting to quiet down. >> cheers going up, and mitt romney, his wife, and some of his grandchildren took in a movie this afternoon.

some of them went to see " mission impossible." i think we are getting an announcement right now. >> we are leaving for mitt romney is -- for our own coverage of mitt romney speech in new hampshire. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> there are so many friends here. what a great night this is. thank you, new hampshire. [applause]

this could not have happened without the help lot of people. i just need to mention a few of them. special thanks to senator kelly ayotte pitcairn governor john sununu, i don't know where he went. senator judd gregg, congressman charlie bass. they have spoken for us and they have fought for us across the state. and it also compaq mayor -- thank you also, mayor. the many state legislators who have been tireless workers on our behalf. deborah is out there somewhere. --jeb bradley is out there somewhere.

thanks to ray burton, and others who have been there for us from the very beginning. jim merrill. jason werth bridmcbride, and a l thanks to the thousands of volunteers who have devoted countless hours to our calls. finally, we want to thank the people of new hampshire. [applause] they are the active part of this democratic process. the ones we met by knocking on doors, visiting towns and cities throughout this great state, and who turned out to meet us at one of our many events. now, guess what i want to do? i want to introduce the man who we all believe should be the

next president of the united states, mitt romney. [cheers and applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you, new hampshire. tonight, we made history. this state has always been a very special place for our

family. we made a home here and filled it with great memories of our children and grandchildren. the granite state moment we just enjoy it is one i will always remember. it is great to have family here. tonight we celebrate, tomorrow we go back to work. [applause] we do remember when barack obama came to new hampshire four years ago, he promised to bring people together. he promised to change the broken system in washington. he promised to improve our nation. lofty are the days of lost th promises made by a political candidate. the last three years have held a lot of change, but they have not offered much hope. the middle class has been crushed. nearly 24 million of our fellow americans are still out of work, struggling to find work, or have

stopped looking. the medium income -- median income has dropped 20%, and soldiers coming home from the frontlines are waiting in unemployment lines. over debt is too high, and opportunities are too few. this president makes up every morning and is proud to announce, it could be worse. it could be worse? that is not what it means to be an american. of course not. what defines us as americans is our unwavering conviction that we know it must be better, and it will be better. [cheers and applause] that conviction and guides our

campaign. it has rallied millions of americans in every corner of this country to our calls. over the last six months, i have listened to anxious voices in town halls and town meetings, visited with students and soldiers and break rooms and living rooms. i have heard stories of families getting by on less, a carefully planned retirements, now replaced with jobs but minimum wage. even now it's the worst recovery since the great depression, i have rarely heard in the speech of hopelessness. americans know that our future is brighter and better than these troubled times. [applause] we still believe in the hope, the promise, and the dream of america. we still believe in that shining city on the hill.

we know that the future of this country is better than 8% or 9% unemployment. it is better than $50 trillion in debt. it is better than the misguided promises and broken policies of the last few years and the broken promises of one man. the president has run out of ideas. now he is running out of excuses. tonight we are asking the good people of south carolina to join the citizens of new hampshire and made 2012 the year he runs out of time.

obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. in the last few days, we have seen some desperate republicans join forces with him. this is such a mistake for our party and for our nation. the country already has a leader who divides us with the bitter politics of envy. we have to offer an alternative vision. i stand ready to lead us down a different path, where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by our resentment of success. [applause] in difficult times, we cannot abandon the core values that define us as a unique nation.

we are one nation, under god. make no mistake, in this campaign, i will offer the american ideals of economic freedom, a clear and unapologetic defense, and we are going to win with that message. but you know that our campaign is about more than replacing the president. it is about saving the soul of america. this election is a choice between two very different destinies. president obama wants to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore america to the founding principles that made this country great. he wants to turn america into a european-style, social welfare state. we want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity.

this president takes his inspiration from the capitals of europe. we look to the cities and towns across america for our inspiration. this president puts his faith in government. we put our faith in the american people. [cheers and applause] this president is making the federal government bigger and bloated. i will make it simpler, smarter, and smaller. he raised the national debt. i will cut, cap, and balance the federal budget.

[chanting "mitt, mitt!"] he passed obamacare. i will repeal it. and when it comes to the economy, my highest priority as president will be worrying about your job, not about saving my own. internationally, president obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. he believes america's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. i believe a strong america must and will lead the future. he does not seen the need for

overwhelming military superiority. i will insist on a military so powerful, no one would ever think of challenging it. [applause] he criticizes our friends like israel. i will always stand with our friends. and he apologizes for america, and i will never apologize for the greatest nation in the history of the earth. our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the constitution of the united states.

[applause] the path i lay out is not one paved with ever-increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurances that government will always be the solution. if this election is a bidding war, for those who can promise the most benefit, then i am not your president. you already have that president. if you want to make this election about restoring american greatness, then i hope you will join us. if you believe the disappointments of the last few years are a detour, not a destiny, then i am asking for your vote. i am asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an american. i want you to remember what it was like to be hopeful and excited about the future, not to drag each new headline. i want you to remember when you spend more time dreaming about where to send your kids to college than about worrying about making it to your next paycheck garrett kern i want you to remember when our white house reflected the best of who we

are, not the worst of what europe has become. that america is still out there. we still believe in that america. [applause] we still believe in the america that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. we believe in the america that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves. this election, let's go on to fight for the america we love, because we believe in america. thank you so much. god bless america.

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the candidate is expected to speak with reporters very quickly. that is in manchester, new hampshire. >> i want to thank the grassroots to help us. we could not have done it without you. you guys know about greek mythology? i want to tell you about some greek heroes. rehab the stanos brothers, neck and james -- we've got the stanos brothers, nick and james. i want to thank a group of unsung people who probably don't get is what credit as they should. this seven. i would do it all over again for you guys.

they kept telling me months ago, trust the plan, trust the plan. jared, i trust the plan. especially marion for keeping the office in shape and all the unruly grass roots. we will get you a new printer once we are in the white house, paid for with private money. this last one is kind of weird for me to say. i am not really an emotional guy, but i got pretty emotional the other day because of youth for paul. [cheering] i used to think, understood

what dr. paul it is to say about the youth inspiring him. after this last week, i have to say you guys rocke. you have a friend and me. when you need something, find me, and i will let you work on my campaign someday. all right, now, the grass roots, four years ago, the revolution was a little bit smaller. i met a good friend of mine, and just four short years ago, we would be talking strategy at midnight all the time. little did i know that four short years, he is a center here in new hampshire, doing what he knows best. he has been a great asset to

this campaign, all through helping dr. paul tonight. please give it up for center jim forsyth. -- senator jim forsyth. thank you so much. >> it feels so good to be up here after four years. all want to first knowledge my campaign cochairs, center ray white and center andy sanborn. senator white had to be with family tonight, but we really priscian -- appreciate him coming on board. and center andy sanborn has been my office mate for the last year. you cannot ask for a better freemarket boat than senator sanborn. i remember my involvement in 2008 really paid dividends for me when i ran in 2010. i got a lot of support from people like you. when an e-mail comes in the

future some time for senator sanborn, donate generously, please. also, all the state reps who endorsed us, some of them are standing on stage here. a couple more are floating around. thanks to them for coming on board. we got amazing support from the legislators. i want to introduce dr. paul by talking little bit about our history and how we got here. over 30 years, dr. paul has warned us about overregulation, overspending, a government too powerful, and too many rights laws. he warned us about being at the policeman of the world. he warned about the president does not have the authority to go to war on his own. he warned us of the dangers when governments can print money, where wages rise slower

than inflation. different people get the money quicker and profit from it while other people suffer. the common theme in all of these is liberty. in 2007, dr. paul took the next step in this revolution, and he ran for president. he challenged the status quo and just about every area of government involvement and every special interest group. this was clearly an uphill battle. in december 2007, the first modern 80 parties occurred as rallies for dr. paul. -- the first modern-day tea parties. that campaign started small, and it finished big. it was not big enough for electoral success, but it was

definitely big enough for success of the movement. it started something big. between that election and now, we have seen several events that have vindicated dr. paul's warnings. we have sent reducing massive spending, deficit quadrupled, the government became too powerful and we lost more rights. obamacare, reauthorization of the patriot act. despite promises, we saw that we continue to be the policeman of the world, continuing to nation built in afghanistan, and then an undeclared war in libya under nato authority. we've seen a consequence of printing money like never before in history. stagnant wages, and we saw the bust of the house in bubble and all the suffering that came with it, and all the economic

downturns that he warned us about. again, one of the unique contributions of dr. paul is to make america aware of the federal reserve. all this has led to more and more people embracing the idea of liberty, with the election of rand paul to the senate, and other pro liberty candidates all across the country, like myself, like senator sanborn, local governments everywhere assault were pro liberty people getting elected and more delegates that were pro liberty. this movement went far beyond dr. paul. this is clearly a growing movement. we clearly demonstrated strong momentum, a consistently strong finish in iowa, and now an

incredibly strong second place in new hampshire. [applause] in mitt romney's own home turf. >> dr. paul is clearly emerging as the alternative to governor romney, the alternative to the status quo that has led our country down the wrong track. this is a movement and the campaign that is building, more and more energetic, excited, principal volunteers like we have seen here tonight. with more contributions than the other candidates combined. as we saw at breakfast the other day, more and more media attention. and we have got more voters checking that box for dr. paul,

checking the box for liberty, sound money, a strong economy, and for a foreign policy that defense america. [applause] based on what i have seen from 2008-2012, from the beginning of this campaign to now, from iowa to new hampshire, i know for a fact that we will restore liberty and restore america. so please welcome the man who started it all, who represents what we have all been fighting for, the face of freedom, the next president of the united states, dr. ron paul. [cheers and applause]

>> thank you. thank you. thank you very much. [applause] i really do not have to introduce my wife. the i think you know my wife carol. and we have a few other members of the family here. we have a daughter and ma, peggy -- daughter-in-law, peggy. we have to be set. lisa >> with apologies, we have lost

our signal from the ron paul said. we are also awaiting other candidates jon huntsman to speak in the new gingrich all reacting to the results of the new hampshire primary. you are looking at pictures from jon huntsman headquarters in the manchester, new hampshire. it looks like we are getting our signal back. we will go back to that event for now. >> -- for not endorsing me. [applause]

i called governor romney a short while ago before he gave his talk and congratulated him because he had a clear-cut victory. but we are nibbling at his heels. ibiza get there was another victory tonight. he had a victory, but we have had a victory for the cause of liberty tonight. [applause] there is no doubt that this entire effort we are involved in will not go unnoticed. i think the intellectual revolution is going on now to restore a liberty as well on its way and there is no way they are going to stop the momentum that we have started. [applause]

that is the victory that you have brought about. you have been the ones who have done the work. there are a lot of people here. the ones across the country, the excitement on the campuses -- it is just unbelievable. we do not always get the coverage on what is going on. they would not be ignoring so much of what we are doing. what i find it sort of fascinating is when they finally get around -- these are different people. it could be in the media or our opponents, but i have to chuckle when they describe you and me as being the dangerous. [applause] that is one thing they are telling the truth. we are dangerous to the status quo of the country. [cheers and applause]

[chanting "president paul"] >> we will remain a danger to the federal reserve system as well. [cheers and applause] you know, in studying monetary history from the beginning of our country and throughout history, monetary policy on periodic occasions will become the dominant issue. we have emphasized that and it has become an important issue. this is the first presidential campaign that the subject never came up since the federal reserve was started.

-- never came up since the federal reserve was started. it will remain a dominant issue. there is no way they will put it to bed because they have destroyed our money. there is a financial crisis going on. it is only sound money and personal liberty that can solve the crisis we have going on today. [cheers and applause] the one reason i talk about the monetary system so much, it was a sneaky deceitful way to pay the bills. an honest government wants to be a big spending government would tax the people and then the people would know what they were doing. if we had to pay taxes for everything that they do, the people would rise up and stop it. then they started borrowing money and a lot. people did not notice that quite as much because they passed it off. and then they resorted to the printing of the money and that is why the.

federal reserve was established to it -- to take care of the powerful interests. there is a couple of reasons that had deficit financing. sometimes there are conservatives that what deficit financing. sometimes there are liberals who want deficit financing. they have resorted to this. this is why we are facing this crisis today. it also serves the interests of those who like to think we have a responsibility -- they claim it is a moral responsibility to take our young people, put them into the military, and send them around the world policing the world and using up our money. just as we have been able to bring to the forefront of the most important issue of that funny money, fiat money and the

federal reserve, we have brought to the forefront -- others have to openly talked about getting into office and they do nothing about it. right now there is a liberty movement and a liberty movement that is saying to the country and the world, we have had the death of sending our kids and money around the world to be the policemen of the world. it is time to bring them home. [applause] bring them home. and the one thing is, we do know they will come home. my goal and our goal has always been to bring them home in a delivered fashion to avoid major economic crisis by destroying our economy by spending so much

overseas. in the last 10 years, the worst going on at added $4 trillion of debt. i think we have been less safe because of all of the money we have spent overseas. this is the issue now. it is an issue that i think is crucial. jim mentioned in the introduction that so often they say if we tell people we think we should spend less in the military -- that means you want to cut defense. no, if you cut the military industrial complex, you cut war profiteering but you do not take one penny out of national defence. [applause] besides, we are flat out broke. fortunately, we did not have to fight the soviets. that brought themselves down for economic reasons.

they thought themselves so bold they could pursue their world empire that they invaded afghanistan. we will come home, but if we do it, and to deliberately be can save our economy at home. there are a lot of people suffering at home. you have to stop the inflation. that is what transfers the what from the poor and middle class to the wealthy. that is why the what they got their bailouts and they middle- class lost their jobs and houses. this is what we have to do. we have to cut the spending. this is why i made a token suggestion in the first year of office, we would cut at least one trillion dollars from the budget. [applause] now, the talking here in washington is pure talk. there is nobody suggesting --

the other candidates are not talking about real cuts. there are talking about proposed increases out in 10 years. they say, we will cut one trillion dollars out. yes, over a 10 year. that is 100 billion every year. our national debt is going up $100 billion every month. they are yelling and screaming, we cannot cut. we cannot cut. we have to live within our means if we want to be able to at least take care of the people who have been made to be so dependent on the government. we have to work our way out. if we did this and cut the overseas spending, at least we might be able to allow social security beneficiaries to get their checks and medicare be provided. if we continue to do what we are doing, the results are that the dollar has been destroyed and the whole thing comes apart. it will be a worldwide phenomenon. already social security beneficiaries are suffering a lot. their income is shrinking

because the value of the dollar is going down. they are getting their checks cut. that is why you have to think about the cutting and stopping inflation. overall you have to ask once again, what should the role of government be in a free society? the role should be very simple -- the protection of liberty. [cheers and applause] wonderful. you know, the constitution was written for a very precise manner. it was not designed to restrain the individual. it was to protect our liberties and to restrain the federal government.

liberty has to be reemphasized because we have been careless over the last 100 years. we have taken liberty and the chopped up into pieces. some people think liberty has to do with personal habits, which i agree. some people think liberty is about where to spend your money and a fight about how to split it up. i think which it's a liberty means you have a right to privacy and how to live your life as long as you do not heard people and you have a right to keep and spend your money as you want to. [applause] freedom is a wonderful idea. that is what i get so excited. i really get excited when i see young people saying it really is an idea. freedom is popular, do you not know that? freedom brings people together. i think it is magnificent at the

crowd to have come out over the weeks and months of been very diverse. it should be. some people want freedom to practice their religion one way. some might not even want to practice it at all. freedom if you understand it, you should all fight for freedom because you want to insert your freedom the way you want. same with economic freedom. it should bring people together. i think this is one reason people wonder about how you will put together a coalition -- they want to know how you will compromise and give up some of your beliefs to get things passed. you do not have to compromise. you have to emphasize the coalition's that people want freedoms for different reasons and bring them together. [applause] america has been the greatest country ever, the most prosperous country ever, the largest middle class ever. it is not that way today.

the country is getting poorer, the wealth is based on debt to. the few who really holds the debt ships and overdue to regulations that control of our government. we have had too many people too long in the last 100 years thinking it was beneficial to have high paid lobbyists to find out what they could get from the government rather than us petitioning our government and a proper manner, demanding our freedoms back again. [applause] a lot of times they give us trouble. they said, you people are to solve this. all you want is to have your freedom. -- you people are too selfish. they argue that that is the case. the thing of it is, the bleeding hearts -- i understand them and recognize that. i believe most of them are well

intended. it does not work is the problem. all the good intentions of saying we will give everybody a free house and loans -- look what happened. the bubble burst. the humanitarian instincts are there across the board. we have to convince them that if you are a true humanitarian, you have to fight and argue the case for free markets, sound money, property rights, contract rights, no use of force in a sensible foreign policy so that we do not waste our resources. [applause] we are well on our way. we are well on our way. people ask me what did i expect five or 10 years ago. i always thought the best i could do was set a record. i did not know if you were out there. [applause]

id is no longer that and i rate minority stirring up the troops. now the high rate minority -- it is growing by leaps and bounds. it will continue to grow by leaps and bounds. we will restore freedom to this country. thank you very much. at thank you. [applause] [chanting "president paul"] >> ron paul greeting his supporters.

four years ago congressman paul was fifth with just 8% of the voters. this year he is in second place tallying 24% of the voters who went to the polls. at our next event will be jon huntsman who is at a restaurant. you see the scene there with supporters awaiting him. jon huntsman and third place with 17% of the vote. we are watching twitter reaction. here is one from a viewer, jim hines. we looked on the gop side for explanation. new hampshire has 12 delegates. they are proportionally distributed for winners with a 10% threshold. everybody at that point and

above what split the 12 delegates. they are committed once this election has happened. also by twitter, mitt romney sent a tweet out from his campaign echoing the sentiment that he made in his remarks. here is a different reaction from buddy roemer who is the candidates as well. that me see if i can find him. the democrats also having an event tonight. here is a tweet had a photograph sent out from the democrats. joe biden thanks supporters via web cast at house parties across new hampshire. you can see a picture he sent out of one of them. let's take some calls. kevin, what is your reaction? >> i guess in 1819, and kaiser

germany a reflection about world war i said one of the biggest reasons for the bloodbath of world war i is that america spoke english instead of german and did not understand what was going on in europe. i am a republican, kind of a discouraged bloomberg republican. jon huntsman speaks mandarin chinese. one of the things that nobody in the republicans are talking about is the overarching significant financial issue in 30 years is going to be china and america inc.. we are the r&d and they are the production. he is the only one who has had the foresight to begin a even on the most cursory fashion to explore how to communicate with

them and some real genuine way. i am astonished that the media has not caught on to the significance of that fact about jon huntsman. >> let me ask you a question if i could. let's move from your issues china to tactics and strategy. how does governor huntsman bill on his third-place showing here to make it to the white house? >> i am terribly disappointed by it. i do not think governor huntsman, tourists sadly, has a lot of chance and the gop primary at least as much as he would because of the fact that he has to drag his knuckles around on the stage in south carolina. he is the only one who has had the integrity not to do that in the iowa. it is a horrific thing that.

it will probably end up going to mitt romney, and at least he is a rational adult. but i wish the media would pay attention to jon huntsman. >> jon huntsman and the third place. with about 40% of the votes cast, 17% jon huntsman, 24% ron paul, and 37% mitt romney. >> thank you, how are you? >> great. thank you pierre >> i am so grateful for your station to kid a chance to comment on the primaries. i am a supporter of ron paul. i tell you, he is right day and night between him and the rest of the candidates, especially mitt romney. i heard the speech he played. he frightens me with all of the military some that he is talking about and making us be the

policemen of the world. we do not have the capacity to do that. it costs lives more than anything else. i am so happy that people are rallying around ron paul. he ran in 2008. he did well. he stayed in the race. it would be interesting to see when the republican convention comes if mr. ron paul states in the race and he keeps gaining the momentum he is gaining. even if he does not when it will be interesting to see if he has some type of reconciliation with the party. it is like night and day. i do not know if he would go and as a third canada. if he did i would surely support him. everybody else is on one page and he is on another. as a citizen of this country i do not think we can sustain what we have been doing for so long. it is finally bankrupting us and

causing young people are lives. thank you for letting me talk. >> we are watching twitter and the campaign results looking at facebook and taking your calls. lots going on as we wait for governor huntsman to come out. buddy roemer is on the ballot and new hampshire. he has 421 votes and he has twisted. he writes -- next is a call from new hampshire. you are on the air, jim. >> for 16 years or more i have never managed to speak to you. however, i am pleased for that. i am an independent voter. i voted for jon huntsman today. i was torn between ron paul and john houseman. i just listened to the congressman's speech.

i am kind of blowed away by what he said. in a sense i regret that i voted for jon huntsman except that both of them seem to be good man. >> ron paul has been all -- all over the state. have you not heard his speeches before? >> no, i did not really listen much to his speeches. i just was so persuaded to night on the issues that he raised. withdrawal from the military engagements that we have. i spoke with both supporters of huntsman and ron paul today. i was impressed because in this small community where romney does have a summer home, there were 20 yong the supporters of ron paul.

there were two supporters of jon huntsman. the huntsman die persuaded me -- huntsman guy persuaded me that ron paul might be a loose cannon. his views make some much sense to me i just hope he can go the route. on the other hand, i voted for obama in 2008. i may vote for him again, i am not sure. ron paul seems to be the only one who might shake up the establishment in washington. he might get new thinking into many areas. we had a fear tactic -- ron paul wants to withdraw from the un. that might be a mistake. it seems as if nothing could

dislodge the powers that be without somebody that was severely different from the status quo. >> thank you so much for calling in with your vote in your rationale for it and sharing that with our national audience. next up is a viewer in national project natural, tennessee. stephen watching this primary from a distance. how does that look to you? >> i appreciate you taking my call. i do agree with the gentleman from new hampshire. he said communication and understanding of our allies and enemies is a key point and relationships. if you understand people in the foreign lands that we do occupy and have to deal with and the economic growth of the world, i am sure they do not appreciate us playing the role of the peacock and showing our fathers to everybody. i am concerned with the winner

of the iowa primary and the projected winner here in new hampshire. he seems to have gone by so far by simply bashing obama and his policies without laying out his own plans or strategy to reverse the obama effect in washington. that has proven to be such a key point in this gop election. i hope to see more substance in debates and a time -- town halls and less criticism of each other. these displays i kind of feel make the choice for a lot of people for the republican constitutionalists that seem to only no substance and that is ron paul. >> what are your top issues? >> what issues are just -- foreign-policy of course -- getting obama out of office seems to be the key point for most republicans this year.

not exactly the priority on my list. mine would be the economy and foreign policy. i would have to side with ron paul, which is a little off for me saying that. i have not followed his campaign until the last couple of years or what he actually speaks for and what he has been consistent with four of 30 years he has served in congress. >> thank you for your call. next to save your in connecticut. this is donna. it looks like mr. huntsman might be coming in so a quick comment from you. >> thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to say i am a democrat from connecticut. i think i am definitely joining the ron paul revolution. i wanted to say that i feel it is pretty disgusting the way the media has tried to make him out some kind of quack all this time when he is probably the smartest man up there. definitely a lot of people are

resonating with him, even myself as a democrat. i feel they asked him very few questions at the debate. they did not even have his name up there at the bottom of the screen at 8:00 or 8:15 tonight. it is as if he does not even exist yet he is coming in second place. people are relating to what he has to say. i am just upset to see how they -- >>, -- donna we have to jump in. thanks for calling. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, i think we are in the hunt. [applause]

thank you ladies and gentlemen here and i would say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentlemen. hello south carolina. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight because of you we have got the greatest of volunteers and greatest organizers the state has ever seen. give yourself a hand. [applause] we have proved a point that this state once its candidates to earn it the old-fashioned way. that is on the ground thehandshake by handshake, conversation by conversation, a vote by vote, we got it done

ladies and gentlemen. [applause] do you know what else we got done during this great seven months where we have had at least 170 public events in this great state? 170 public event and that no one even came close. we had conversations about the importance of putting this country first, ladies and gentlemen. [chanting "country first"] because the people of this great nation, the greatest nation that ever was, they are tired of being divided. they want leadership that will tell us the first and foremost we need to come together as americans to even solve our

problems. [applause] we need a president, ladies and gentlemen, that will stand up and say we have an economic deficit -- is called $15 trillion in debt. this is not a debt problem, it is a national security problem. we will not leave it to the next generation of americans. i want to stand up and i want to square with the american people about this. afghanistan is not our nation's future. iran is not this nation's future. our nation's future is how prepared we are to rise up and had on the challenges in the 21st century. do you know what i am talking about?

and this is about economics. this is about education and this is going to play out over the pacific ocean with countries that i have lived in before. all i can tell you tonight without any hint of hyperbole folks, if we do not get our act together at home we will see the end of the american century by 2015. we will not let that happen, will we? ladies and gentlemen, we also have been able to get our message out to the people of this great state about a second deficit that we have. it is not a economic deficit but it is just as corrosive. it is called a trusted deficit. the people of the greatest nation that ever was, the united states of america, no longer trust their institutions of power. they no longer trust their elected officials. i say how did we get to the

spot? we are too good of people to be in this hall. we are the most problem- solving, can-do optimistic people on earth and we are going to get out there and address the trust deficit. it is going to start with congress. everybody knows that congress needs term limits. [cheers and applause] everybody knows we have to close the revolving door that allows members of congress to file out to become lobbyists trading in on their insider information. and we wonder why there is cynicism toward congress? no trust. there is no trust abroad. we will pick that -- we will fix that. i will stand up in front of the american people and i will say we have something to show for our candidates years in the war

of terror. something to show for the american people that is important. we have run the caliban from power. we have dismantled al qaeda. osama bin laden is no longer around. we have had three elections. we have strength and society and help to the military and the police. we have done what this nation can do. it is time to bring the troops home from afghanistan. [applause] we need it trust and use back into this nation. we need a president that will stand up and say it is time for us to come together. this nation, the greatest nation on earth, has every attribute a nation would never want for

success. that is why we are going to succeed as we go forward. all we need is a little bit of leadership and a plan. i saw this nation from 10,000 miles away -- you hear me? 10,000 miles away. when you see this nation from abroad, you tend to see it in bold colors. the you know what i saw living in china? i saw a nation with the greatest people on earth. a nation that is down for the moment and down temporarily. a nation that is about to rise up again because we have every attribute a nation would ever want to succeed. we have stability. we have rule of law. we have the longest surviving constitution and the world. we even have private property rights right here in new hampshire. we have the greatest colleges and universities on earth and

people flocked here to attend them. we have the most creative entrepreneur real people and they are sitting on their hands because there is no confidence about the direction or leadership of this nation. i say that is an engine of growth that we are going to read fire. --refire. we have the greatest and most courageous armed forces this nation has ever seen. [cheers and applause] i will be darned if we are going to allow the men and women to come from the theatres of combat to the unemployment lines. that is not going to happen. those men and women who have worn the uniform of the unites states of america will come hoem to dignity and admiration. they will come home to jobs and

opportunity as well. they are going to do the same thing for this nation that the greatest generation did so many decades ago. they rebuilt this nation and pulled it up by their bootstraps. there is another for this generation coming up. you know who they are. they will do what earlier generations did. they will help us rebuild this generation rebuild in this nation. it will make it the best they can be. ladies and gentlemen, i love the state. this state -- and this state we have worked hard and diligently. we have pounded the pavement and shaking hands. we have had conversations and one people over person by person. this is the old way to get politics done in new hampshire.

my confidence in the system is reborn. they just turn out at these town hall meetings. nobody forces that are tells them they have to do it. it is because they believe in a better tomorrow for the united states of america. [applause] thank you very much. they turned out to the town hall meetings and it turned out to the house parties and hear from the candidates. the assimilate and the date digested all and they render a judgment. here we sit tonight with a ticket to ride and to move on. here we go to south carolina. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] [chanting "join the hunt"]

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>> former gov. john huntsman thinking his supporters for his third place showing with 53% of

the votes recorded he is at 17% of the votes cast. next up will be former house speaker newt gingrich. he is at the radisson hotel in midtown manchester, new hampshire. that is what the crowd looks like. his tally is about 10% of the vote. he is neck-and-neck with correct santorum for fourth place. we will continue to take your tweets. here is one from the pond -- publisher of the manchester paper that endorsed him. we are wondering what you think about tonight's results. here is a call from fort

lauderdale, florida. >> i was listening to mr. romney of his victory speech tonight. i think one thing that was most disturbing was when he said you have to make the military -- you have to make it where nobody would want to mess with the u.s. military. what i found even more scary, standing behind him were his grandchildren and daughters-in- law. but he wanted to send my children off to war. when he was supposed to go he took his deferment. they get to send our poor people, we get to fight these wars that are absolutely not necessary.

i hope nobody votes for mr. romney. he is ready to start a war with our children and not his children. >> are you confident -- confidently ready to vote for mr. obama for reelection? >> i would. at least he is trying to talk of peace and trying to bring our military home. we cannot afford to keep this military going and going and spending all of this money. we really do not have it. we need to focus on infrastructure here at home. >> so is military and foreign policy your number one issue? >> the economy is very important, but if we do not have our people -- if our kids are dying in afghanistan and iran, it will not even matter to me. you know, i am done that.

i am afraid of these republican people running because they are beating up the war thing again. >> thank you for your call on election night in new hampshire. jacqueline is a democrat. look into the conversation. >> good evening and thank you for having me on. >> thank you for waiting. >> my most important issue is wages. it seems like that of the candidates want to address that. we send our jobs overseas and even though jobs are coming back a are at lower wages. how do americans compete with countries like china? i do here which is in india are going up. --hear wages in india are going

up. ron paul stated seniors on social security are having a hard time when that is not true. seniors are one of the only segment and society that are not having trouble because they get social security. jon huntsman said we have some of the best universities in the country. if they have their way there will be no pop grants, no assistance, low wages -- americans will not be able to send their children to college. as far as mitt romney, he says bush implemented more regulations than obama did but nobody has said the jobs are being lost because of the regulations bush implemented ronald reagan had us under 180% debt to gdp but this country

recovered. i could go on and on. in 26 civilized nations -- not that what ever, and income equality. they are entitled to their opinions but they do not have the facts on their side. i feel like i am living in a parallel universe. >> thank you very much. calling from philadelphia is a democrat watching coverage of the republican contest the primary in new hampshire tonight. also, obama on the democratic ballot. below that a photograph with the tweet. as we are waiting for speaker newt gingrich, let's take our

next telephone call. dan, a republican. >> thank you for letting me have a chance to talk to that. first of all, i am a united states citizen. i am a conservative. i am a republican. i am very disappointed and disgusted at the way our representatives have not represent at us as a country and to get us down the road that i do not believe our forefathers had intended us to. the economy in my opinion is the most important thing that needs to be addressed. we cannot be ambassadors to the rest of the world and take care .f ourselves here i if we do not take care of our economy, china is on the doorsteps to overtake us as a world economy. we will be having to succumb ourselves to that. we already have to build

olfactories over there to build our colorado project our cars. after all these candidates i hear the same rhetoric except for ron paul. he seems to make the most common sense. common sense does not seem to be so common anymore of boxed most people. the other candidates seem to talk the same rhetoric until they get elected. once they get elected it is the lobbyists that control this country it seems to be. i am glad the tea party makes people aware carry of the situation. for me i will have to vote for ron paul this time around. >> thank you so much. you can continue the conversation two places. if you are part of the c-span community on our facebook page and also on c-span'swtwitter page.

here is one from our facebook page. back to telephone calls, next up a solid city. this is tony, an independent. >> i have been watching what is going on. i do not have to tv at my house. all i can do is look at yahoo, cnn on the internet. that i do at other people's houses because i cannot afford that. i am less that $25,000 a year income. i am a mormon and i live in utah. i would vote for jon huntsman before mitt romney come up ron paul is the man. i do not see why the media is downplaying ron paul so much.

at the same time, i am disappointed in the obama. all the promises. there is some much out there that can be done for the people. he is very capable of doing it to. ron paul says let's bring our military home. let to rebuild the base as we closed here. why don't all these other runners suggest similar things? everything is so short cut and a timid. it is just disappointing to me. >> tony, a utah psittacine and john houseman was for governor. can you tell a little bit of your opinion on how he got burned it? >> i actually met jon huntsman opinion on how henho governed.

>> i met him once at a concert. i actually was not impressed. they all seem like they are all show. ron paul seemed like the best. jon huntsman seem like a nice guy. he had a family. it seems like the fact that his father is a millionaire and is not supporting him as far is giving him money for running cash shows that jon huntsman is standing on his own two keep. i respect that. he says, look, dad, i am trying this without your help. i like him in that sense. >> thank you for calling. this is jim, an independent. hello, are you there? unfortunately not. we will move on to brooks, a

democrat from new york city. >> i am a democrat and a black american. i like ron paul. i have read through his past racial comments. i do not think they were bigoted. >> i apologize to you as well. senator santorum is on the states so we will listen to him >> thank you for all of the folks up here. i want to thank you very much for everything you have done in new hampshire. we came up here just about 10 days ago. the polls were having us about 1% or 2%. after iowa the most recent poll was 3%. depending on your math three have either 10 times, five times, or three times where we started. that is what we wanted to do. we wanted to respect the

process. we wanted to respect the fact that we would campaign in every single state, states that were good for us and the states that may be a little tougher. you run in a state like new hampshire that had a lot of folks here spending a lot of time and money, we knew it would be tough. the message we have of going out and be leaving in the american people -- believing that we need to have opportunities not just for some in america, we need somebody that will go out and speak for all americans to be able to have the opportunity to rise in society. we took that message to new hampshire. we talk about manufacturing plants and what we would do to grow the economy. we took it to talk about faith and family as the basis and bedrock of society. [applause]

and buy your work and the grass roots effort and the crowds that we have had, we go to this campaign here in new hampshire just a very short period of time. we did not spend a lot of money, but we put a lot of effort into this. we put our message out there. we came were the campaign was. we delivered a message not just for new hampshire, but we delivered a message for america that we have a campaign here -- [applause] we have a campaign that has a message and a messenger that can deliver what we need. first and foremost, that is to defeat barack obama. [applause]

the message as i mentioned in iowa from the grandson of a coal miner. somebody who believed deeply that the responsibility that he had as someone who risked his life for a sovereign, taking when he served in the austrian army during world war one. he fought on the russian front. if it was not for the aid of a friend calling from a foxhole and pulling my would grandfather back into that foxhole, i would not be here today. he fought for somebody who did not care about him. he came to america because he wanted to make sure that his children would be in a free country and his grandchildren would be in a free country. ladies and gentlemen, that is

our charge and that is what is at stake in america today. [applause] let me assure you, he was not deterred by some temporary setbacks. he believed in the greatness of this country and he believed in the freedom of opportunity that this country presented. we are going to go on to south carolina. [applause] for those who like to think that somehow or another that this risk could be over and one or

two states, states that have been, well, the backyard and home of a certain candidate -- who by the way i want to congratulate mitt romney for a great victory tonight. [applause] he worked hard in the state and he invested in the state. the people of new hampshire gave him a very hard earned factory. i spoke with governor mitt romney and congratulated him on that when the and said i am looking forward to engage ini ad the way to put the best foot forward to deliver a message to the american people that can unitas. we have an opportunity in this race. we have an opportunity to be the true conservative who can go out and do what is necessary not just to win this race.

this race. [applause] to be the conservative who understands that at the foundation of our country are institutions that are crucial for us to be successful nation, families that are bonded together at the foundation that instill for two and phase to build strong communities. that is the message along with a government that understands that we have to create a playing field for all americans to be able to be successful in this country. we have a message that can

appeal not just in south carolina but across this nation and in particular in the states that are necessary for us to win this election, the states that are the swing states, it the states that have been successful. we're not only going to deliver the basic structure and foundation of our country being safe and family, but we're going to do so understanding that good faith in the american people we can not only wipe out of this deficit, we can not only have a strong america that stands up for the values that i just talked about but we can do so in a huge victory that will rally this country to take on the great challenges.

on to south carolina. thank you and god bless.

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host: rick santorum battling newt gingrich in new hampshire. ewt gingrich came out at the same time. now you'll see the speech slightly delayed in its entirety. >> the state in new hampshire was so warm and generous to us. everywhere we went it was remarkable how many people were positive and actively supportive and helpful. i am delighted to have this chance and to learn more about the concerns. i am thankful to everyone here that does been helpful, especially speaker o'brien who did such a great, great job. one of the great virtues of

running is that everywhere you go you learn something. you pick up a better understanding of america. i have to say that the leadership that speaker o'brien and the house showed in developing a new approach that i hope will become adopted everywhere in america, where they actually had the ways and means committee report first. it indicated how much money they would have a. they then actually adopted a budget to fix their income -- to fit their income. it is the opposite of every other state in the country. the result was a very courageous and a very serious effort in which they cut 11% out of spending which is a remarkable achievement. in washington it would begin to move us back here this a step to

of a long process. you learn certain things. let me put in context where thwe are. we have an opportunity to unify the country around a message of jobs, economic growth, and very dramatic programs. the opportunity is to reach out to everybody of every background who would rather have paychecks than food stamps to convince them that what ronald way again did not go crazy millions of new jobs, what we did when i was speaker in 1990's in creating millions of new jobs, it can be done again. this campaign is going to go on to south carolina.

we're going to offer the american people something very different. but we're going to offer them an opportunity to participate in very dramatic, very fundamental change in washington, d.c. we're going to prove that i both understand the principles and i understand the practice. i learned a lot of those principles from ronald reagan and margaret thatcher. i got to practice them as a junior college and working with ronald reagan. i got to practice as a speaker working with bill clinton. i want to suggest to you when ronald reagan was president, we have to find a way to get votes to the house despite the fact that o'neill was speaker. when i was speaker, we had a way to the bill signed a despite the

fact that bill clinton was president. i believe if we had a republican house, a republican senate, and they become rich presidency, it would be amazing -- and a gingrich presidency, it would be amazing how much we could get done. [applause] take to south carolina tonight and kick off tomorrow morning a campaign for jobs and economic growth, a campaign for a balanced budget, a campaign for returning power to the states to the 10th amendment, a campaign for a strong national security, a campaign for a stable, solid social security program both for people now on it and for the young people who are here who deserve a chance in their lifetime to have an even better program with a greater return.

if we are smart, we can do better things for people. how do we raise taxes and cut spending in way that causes you paying on the spending sign and causes you paint on the tax side is exactly backward. i was really struck. this is part of learning. we have a debate. we were asked a question about the heating assistance program. it was praised in the washington way. are you going to run a bigger deficits the canal or people or are you going to cut people off? nobody on the panel asked the question seemed to consider an alternative. what if we simply went out and developed american oil and gas, brought down the cost of heating oil and did not need to help people because the price came down?

that idea of doing more and doing a better does not exist in the washington lexicon. it makes it hard because it is so strange. what if you were just innovative? what did you have new approaches? what if he did americans -- what if you did everything americans have always done? the free enterprise system that attracted people from people from henry ford to thomas edison to bill gates to steve jobs, that model but maximizing the development of new approaches, new energy, new opportunities, new technologies, has raised the standard of living across the planet more than any other system in the world.

you have been wonderful to us here. i am asking each of you not to slow down. not the next couple of days, and make a list of every person you know in south carolina and every person you know in florida. those are the next great contest. as the choice becomes clear, as people understand that there is a bold break a conservative approach of lower taxes, less regulation, more american energy, a sound dollar, and being in favor of creating jobs, the opposite of the obama programs of higher taxes, more regulation, more american energy, and attacking people would create jobs, look at those two models. we can reach out and create a majority that will shock the country and a majority that will put this back on the right track. it is doable. it is a daunting challenge.

consider the alternative. if we do not go the extra mile and we do not offer a vision powerful enough to unify americans and we continue down the road that obama has as often, what the judges have us on, more years of decay, more years of inadequacy, more years of falling behind, more years of growing weakness. that is the alternative. i believe it will take someone that is capable of debating barack obama face-to-face, and delivering the conservative message, winning the argument, in order to overcome his billion dollar machine. with your help, as your spokesperson representing your values on behalf of our children, our grandchildren, and

our country, i will do everything i can to win the opportunity to represent you in this fall in debating in defeating barack obama. thank you. got bless you. >> that is slightly delayed coverage of newt gingrich speaking to his supporters. the whole party mood to the south carolina primary.

with the results, across all of new hampshire county is the same one, two, three result with mitt romney first. to take some telephone calls and during this hour here we are going to show you may romney's speech to supporters after winning the new hampshire primary. we'll also look at some tweets. we'll also bring a newscast on this. our great partner has been helping us by letting you see their local reporting of the new hampshire primary. let's take a poke off from new hampshire. caller: i am glad to be here. god bless america and our presidents. it is a crying shame that these

republicans are saying that barack obama is about raising these taxes on everybody in stuff like this and playing off threats. and using psychological tactics of people. he has only promised to buy to raise taxes on the rich people. your election system is completely rigged. i have them all in bed with the hartford insurance scandal. they do the same things that politicians do. it assures us what been honest people they are.

i have eight detectives sent me that said you is a trained sniper. i recently was in boston. host: i am going to interrupt you. we have an election is set to talk about. pennsylvania, republican. you are of next. after that is dallas. you are on. caller: my question would be in church to separation of sear and state. for all the politicians to say we are one nation under god, whose daughter we under? -- whose god are we under? if we do not separate our religious views from our constitution, the constitution was written in 1942.

it was changed in 1954 to include one nation under god. it was changed. it is important we recall how important our civil liberties are, how important our independence is. we can become a strong prosperous nation again. >> don huntsman's daughters have been on the campaign trail. quite so proud of our dad and the whole campaign. on to the next chapter. next is a phone call from woodbury, minnesota. caller: thank you for taking my call. it sounds like huntsman was giving a victory speech. i would have to think that with all the time he spent in of new hampshire he was really looking for at least a strong second place finish.

i guess i was happy to see him finish pretty low in new hampshire. it reminded me of rudy guiliani in 2008. to win right to florida and then not do well there either. -- he went right to florida and then did not do there will either. they have to go to all the states and talk to all the people. it is knowing that if one of these men is going to be a president, i like him to consider the views of all the people in america and not just the people of the state to the things can get him elected. host: thank you for the comments. next is marie, a republican in california. caller: thank you for taking my call. i am a ron paul supporter. i go out every day with a homemade sign on the streets because that is how much i believe in him.

the media should be ashamed of themselves. for what they are doing. nobody's going to put my constitution, ok? i'm going to send for my constitution am i right spirts. host: have you found yourself as passionate about candidates in the past? caller: i have not. i'm tired of the way our country is disintegrating. i have so much passion in my heart to go out every day and hold my homemade sign and to show that ron paul is the one tha tneeds to be voted in. host: thank you for calling. pennsylvania up next. this is a democrat. caller: thank you for having me on. in 2008, i was an obama of butchvoter.

tonight i'm ecstatic seeing ron paul getting the votes he is getting. he deftly deserves a win. i felt the excitement of a football game. but a big smile on my face. he brought of good points. he brings the things of our constitution that needs to be fixed. recently the nbaa defect that is unconstitutional. obama has done a lot to deceive the american people. hopefully, we can see ron paul mickey change for the nation and do what is best for the people. host: let's look at the tally. the numbers are basically unchanged for most of the evening since the race was called about 17 minutes past 8:00 eastern. next up is oklahoma city.

republican. caller: hello. before i start, i would like to see a few things. i am a republican, you know. i like to question a lot of things republicans say. second, i am pretty young. i am 14. i have done a lot of things they do not understand. please feel free to interrupt. everyone is saying back mitt romney is electable. i know it is hard for a republican to bring foreign policies against obama because of a lot of things obama has done. mitt romney is going to have a tough time talking about obamacare, because romneycare.

mainwould mitt romney's debate topic be against obama? host: thank you. he's 14 years old and watching the election is presumably for the first time. i will not answer that. this is a great education for you and an opportunity to watch and see how the campaigns develop. next up is at minnesota. democrat. go ahead. caller: welcome. i wanted to voice if you concerned about the possibility of ron paul being elected. the first is his plan to eliminate the five departments of interior and energy. interior, i hear a lot of criticism about the united states and the way the government is being currently run. i hear a lot of systems.

i do not hear a lot dissolutions. i am not sure exactly how he plans on filling the void with limiting the department of energy. what happens to our national parks? what happens to be noaa? what happens when it comes to tracking hurricanes? the department of energy is another story. you talk about the atomic energy agency turning over the nuclear stockpiles, nuclear waste, power plants. i shudder to think, i know states are having trouble regulating their own policies. we had a 14-day shutdown last year. the other thing that concerns about ron pauses for policy,

specifically the non- intervention. if u.s. president jerry 9/11, what would he do? -- during 9/11, what would he do that would be to sit there and say we have bills to pay and let it happen? ron paul does not have very many supporters in congress as far as i know. he only has three endorsements. he has sponsored some 421 bills. 418 never got past the committee. only one was passed. i am wondering if he was president, i am sure he would continue to assign more vetoes than any president in modern history. host: can you wrap up the final point? caller: my final point is his

political platform is a bumper stickers. host: next up is richard. caller: my wife and i both voted. there's one completely want to make. it is the mistreating of of ron paul by the media and how poorly people understand what he stands for. we have been to his rallies. we have been to see him and talked to him. i have heard several people tonight say "i just found out he standing for a certain thing." we need more fairness. he would have won tonight if the media have been fair. host: we mentioned earlier that the white house organized watching parties around the state of new hampshire.

the vice president made an appearance by video to thank supporters of the administration for their support of his reelection bid. we're winter show you that next. it begins with the head of the democratic national committee. >> thank you so much. it is great to be here. thank you for the honorary designation. i have a family, in newberry. i spent a lot of time here. this is my second ever place in the whole world. it is wonderful being here. thank you to all of you, all those who have volunteered and made phone calls, and knock on doors, attended house parties and trainings. we know that after the seven offices that are open and mitt romney closes down his shop and

goes down, we are going to be here rolling up our sleeves and making sure that all the way to november 6 we operate the most robust grass-roots campaign that has ever been seen in history. that is because of all of you. he believes this country should go in a direction and making sure that the wind is kept at the back of the wealthiest. the someone his actually said that he enjoys firing people. he projected that he understands the plight of people that has lost his job because he was worried he would get a pink slip. his only familiarity with being slips is because he is given also many of them if there is

anyone that should be doing an unbelievably well it is met ronnie. -- if there is anyone who should be doing unbelievably well it is mid romney. we do not stand for anything and you're willing to stand for anything to be able to get yourself elected, that is not the kind of confidence that the voters want to see. we're going to see what happens tonight. we're going to work every day to make sure we talk about barack obama's incredible accomplishments, his hard work, the tax breaks his been able to provide a common 17 different tax rates for small-business owners and 22 straight month of job growth in the private sector. it is my pleasure and privilege to introduce someone who's very

special to you. i will tell you that is very special to me, because we know her among the women members as our champion outfielder on the congressional women's soccer ball team. your united states senator. >> thank you. thank you everybody. i like this. this is good. get fired up. c'mon. isn't it great to have on our wonderful dnc chairman here with us? she is here not only to

celebrate today, but to get us started on the next step of a long journey to re-elect the barack obama come november. some of the may wonder what happened to my arm. i got this arm wrestling mitch mcconnell. i want to thank all of you who have worked so hard over the last weeks and months. this is really a dry run today for what we need to do just nine months from now. thank you to all of these obama activists who are here, as all the party's supporters, to our state chair and to everyone who has worked so hard. it is just the beginning. we have a lot more work to do.

he may have noticed that there is also a republican primary going on today. i know that we are watching he was going to win this republican primary. the reality is it does not matter a whole lot. we know they are all just different shade of the same color. that call larrcaller is scary. we have candidates who are running for the republican nomination you want to send our troops back to iraq. we have a canned in in failed to believes that we should outlaw contraceptives -- we have

colleagues in the field who believe that was out of contraceptives. some supported the rise in budget that would turn medicaid into a voucher program. let's talk about jobs. we all know that what we need to do is to put back to work those people who are unemployed. we need to grow this economy. there is a huge difference between the vision that barack obama has for growing jobs in country and the vision that every one of those republican nominees has who once policies to help the top one term. barack obama knows that we have got to help the middle class. that is the backbone of this country. we have to make sure people can get back to work. if you want to talk about jobs, i want to talk about the

automobile industry. the fact is this president believes that it is important to help the automobile industry. now we have a robust auto industry. in new hampshire we have 20,000 jobs that are still here. we helped that auto industry. we are making cars again in america. we have had 22 straight months of job growth, 3.1 million jobs that have been created. that is very different than in january 2009 when we are losing 750,000 jobs a month. it does not matter who wins the republican nomination. they are going to go back to the policies of the bush administration for that we have been fighting for the last year to get that.

we know that barack obama is the person to do that. we have a reelection. we have to do everything we can for the next nine months to make sure we return into the white house. -- return him to the white house. one of the people who is going to help make that happen is our friend from new hampshire, and the man from scranton, pa.. we call him one of our own, a vice-president joe biden. we are about to get him. with him is the national field director for the campaign. glad to have you not could new hampshire.

>> it is my pleasure to be moderating the event tonight. without further ado, i like to turn it over to the man. the vice president of the united states, at joe biden. >> my son was in iraq for a year. i understand there is miscommunication here. i apologize if the connection to all of you is not what you expect. when the president and i came into office, we stated the obvious of historic proportions. our economy was killing our people. we went to work with the of other -- with the help of others. we did what we need to do and face glorified opposition at dead set against every single thing we tried to do. every initiative we passed was

passed with not a single republican vote. in some cases there were three or four. we passed the recovery act which actually treated 3 million jobs. we passed historic care carol -- health care reform. we rescued the automobile industry. we're beginning to see the results. it was mentioned twice. it is all happening. it is happening with virtually no republican support. there's something else. we inherited a broken bargain, a deal that our parents did not have to face. it always made america great. middle-class folks were given an even chance and they got to share in the benefits they help produce. that was broken during the bush years.

we were determined to fix it. the other side did not see that. they do not understand that. listen to mitt romney. he has no idea that the bargaining existed little loan was broken. how else would he say the way to fix the foreclosure crisis in america is just by letting it all go to the bottom? let's get down to the nub now. for closure will cool things out. how else could he say that the republicans are the opportunity party? they can provide a credible tax cuts to the wealthy and any help that goes to americans. they're helping their kids get to college. anything else he cast a. -- cast it. people in the middle class to work hard are entitled to an even shot. look, at the republican party in house stands for something

different than your father's republican party. it is not only met ronnie but all the people you heard. this is not -- it is not only mitt romney but all the people you heard. the vast majority of americans actually are getting how much the republican party has a chance. -- changed. it has been basically ignored by these guys. they have a commitment -- we have been committing to give the middle-class a fighting chance to get the kids to school and live in a decent neighborhood. that is what this election is about. we face this to determine hundreds of dollars. they have the super pacs now

that will spend hundreds of millions of dollars. we're not going to have those hundreds of millions of dollars. we have all of you. there are literally millions of people like you that go door to door. i believe that the republican party that took over the party now could 2010 have opened the eyes of the average american to what this republican now is. we saw at in ohio. they tried to eliminate bargaining. the seats in the release of republicans in congress. they always said they were for tax cuts.

we have to really important things we have going for us. the president is taking tough actions. the republican party for the first time in my career is not trying to hide the ball anymore. they're not talking about medicare and social security. these guys are state of saying what they are for. they want tax cuts for the wealthy. they want to cut education. now that we have brought home troops, they want to send them back. with your help, we're going to

win this race. there's much to much at stake. it is not about barack obama or joe biden. it is about honest middle-class people, working americans that deserve a chance. >> thank you so much for taking time added your night to talk with us. we're gonna take questions live from new hampshire. we will start with monica. us? you with the stac >> is an honor to ask a question tonight. you are keeping your commitment irresponsibly ending the war. what is your vision for america's role during the second term? >> thank you.

it was a commitment we made that we belbut felt strongly. i was proud to have them with the president as he put that together. we inherited to rules. -- two wars. we faced an insurgent al qaeda in the face the loss of american dollar around the world. we lost the respect of lot of our friends. the present set about doing exactly what he said he would do, ending the war in iraq and putting afghanistan on irresponsible course where we will turn over responsibility of the security afghanis. the president has gone out of the way of helping the brave men and women.

they have decimated al qaeda. al qaeda has been badly damaged. we're on the verge of saying that they are not in the capacity to do harm. we're not there yet. the president also led the effort to find and eliminate osama bin laden. we read grains -- regained our standing. not only should they respect our power, but they should respect the power of our ideas. look at what we have done. we were able to generate this.

>> i give you one example, what do we do? we used our technology to organize the arab states. by providing this, we had this here. we had no boots in the ground. that dictator is gone. what we have to do now is go out and focus on the things that they call soft power. it rests in being able to meet with the rest of the world. it is united with a common purses. barack obama has done more in three years than all the a president i have searched in the past within the same time frame

of restoring our security, our leadership, the pudding is in a position where the next 10 years are not going to be like the last. greg thank you. >> thank you guys. thank you for joining us. we want to take another one. we're going to go to the seacoast. are you there? >> i am year. -- i am here. i know that even the president have been working really hard for middle-class families. have you respond to people who are really struggling on a day- to-day basis even with the economy improving? how do we encourage them and

respond? >> as you may agree, the economy is improving. this very night there people in manchester going to bed. they will stare at the ceiling wondering if they'll be able to be in the house. when he is out of work it is an economic slowdown. when you're out of work it is a depression. it is a depression for millions of people. they have been stripped not only of their ability to make a living but of their dignity. my dad used to say a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. it is about your sense of self. that is what the guys did not get. they do not get it.

i was raised in a household like barack obama where we're sitting around the dining room table and everybody knew someone around that table was going to lose their jobs. someone was one to lose their job. if you are raised in a family like that, like so many americans have been, you understand the urgency of what we're talking about. i will say two more things. the american people have never ever felt their country. -- failed their country. all we're trying to do is get them on a level playing field. give them a shot.

it is not enough that we give back to jobs lost in the 20th century. we have to create whole new areas of employment. we are not looking to have a base to the bottom of where we compete with some of my republican friends. we have to invest in infrastructure. if i took you to china where i was not long ago, and said where

are you, you would think that it was a u.s. airport. the rest of the world has moved ahead of us. that is what will attract businesses and people to come. it will create good paying jobs. engineers come up with the plan. the second thing we have to do is invest in innovation. this of the greatest university in the world. we have the most entrepreneurial people in world. in every previous generation, the government has led the way, has had a vision as to go ahead and do that. they provided seed money.

they invested in new ideas. them private business takes over. we cannot believe it is possible to leave the 21st century with the energy policy we have now. is anyone think we can make it? we're going to continue to invest in pushed in renewable energy and breakthroughs. these are the things that we have the capacity to do better than any country in the world that will provide our jobs. we sound like a broken record. we would not be where we were without the help to get a college education. we bring 16th in the world in the percentage of our population of graduating college. my wife teaches full time and the community college, 15

credits a semester. she said any country with out -- out-aout-educates us, competes us. the difference is for millions of middle-class people and those straggling, they have this beautiful child who is intelligent and capable. they look at the knowing that we cannot get him to college. no child in america capable should be denied it. the part that bothers me about this republican party is that it is different than existed 20 years ago. the thing that bothers me is that they're not bad folks. they have a totally different sense of what the country is

about. i remember when i was a senior in high school. i was trying to get to school. my dad ran an automobile agency. my dad said i could get down and get a new car. i take my girlfriend to the dance. i was a senior taking my girlfriend to the junior prom. i said, where it is data? she said he is out on the side lot. i just come from a baseball game. i said hey, my dad was pacing. he was an honorable and proud man. he looked like something awful had happened. he said i am sorry, i am so sorry. i thought what happened? he said, i went to the bank to

bar the money to the you it. they will not lend me the money. i do not know what i'm going to do. it is not just about the kid who does not get there. it is about the parent who is stripped of their dignity. the idea that these guys are providing tax incentives to people, college assistance. where did they come from? this is more than just another election. these guys have a fundamentally different view of this country and what will make a great. i guess it was a congresswoman who said i like firing people. -- it was a congressman who said

"i like firing people." it is probably out of context but what was not out of context as the basic point. he thinks it is more important for the stock holders and shareholders and investors in the venture capitalists to do well them for those employees to be part of a bargain. they look out for their employees even the bottom line would suffer a little bit. it is one thing to make a profit. it is another thing to maximize your profit to the extent and disregard what happens to people who work for you. that was not the republican party 24 years ago. it is the republican party now. i think they gotta back where.

i think the american people are figuring it out. this is what we're willing to take to the american people. we're going to do this. >> i want to say a couple of things. whether you are in the north country or in hanover or down elsewhere, those that joined from manchester, we thank you some much for joining today and bringing people together. there three ways you can get involved immediately. in the next several weeks, the president will be delivering his state of the union address.

the second thing you can do is as the republican's lead the hampshire and go to other states, we will be opening offices all across. we want you to come be involved. he can help us build your local team. to win how we're going this campaign. the combined all of it at nh.barackobama.com. >> one of the five state i'm going to focus on is new hampshire. when i come up, pretend you know me. have anything else you would like to say? >> thank you. we're going to win this thing. the country is ready to move.

we decide to move the brush out of the way. we're going to have an opportunity to do the things he came to do and do its without the kinds of resistance we have had. thank you, new hampshire. host: barack obama was the winner of the democratic primary contest in new hampshire. joe biden was addressing supporters gathered around the state. there were small meetings by video link from a couple hours earlier tonight. tomorrow morning c-span will also continue the democratic message after the new hampshire primary with live coverage of the forum in bedford, new hampshire.

this will be live at 8:00 a.m. on c-span2. one tweet as we wrap up our coverage, one has one about a turnout. the candidates are on their way to south carolina. you heard all of them talk about achieving the entire group will be campaigning in that state. tomorrow in south carolina, newt gingrich, john huntsman, and ron paul. among the places they will be, rick perry, a tour around the state. mitt romney in the state capital, and rick santorum takes his campaign to the state combat -- to the state capital. adamantine is on the line with

us. -- adam dean is on line with us. he thinks so much for being with us. -- thanks so much for being with us. how did the campaigns and build on tonight's results in new hampshire and present them in a successful way to south carolina voters? guest: there is a difficult question. south carolina is so difficult from new hampshire. clearly, each candidate has their own separate base they are going after. you have read santorum and rick perry going after the social conservative/evangelical vote is centered mainly in the greenville area. then you have mitt romney and john heinz may -- john huntsman going after the fiscal conservatives, the lower country, and if history repeats

itself, that seems to be the winning strategy. john mccain did that in 2008 and got most of his support around the coast and the midlands, and in the social conservative /evangelical vote was split between huckabee and fred thompson and a few others. you could have a situation like that again when you have rick perry and rick santorum campaigning so hard. of spain one thing to clarify for our viewers. in new hampshire, you can declare on election day, so it is like an open primary. an independents were a factor. what is the situation with voting in south carolina? is a close primary only? guest: no, it is an open primary so anyone can vote that is registered to vote for the

deadline to register has already passed. i've seen numbers before where those who did not identify as republicans tend to vote in a block. that could be a significant factor in the election year. it seems to be a common thing here every year that everyone says, we're going to have an open primary and have this influx of democrats trying to skew the election results. this does not seem to be too much of that. host: we have heard a lot of discussion in the past 24 hours supportinguper pac's newt gingrich and the multimillion-dollar by that they are making in your home state with clips from the documentary on bai capiton. can you talk about that strategy and how likely it will play with south carolina voters? guest: south carolina voters are no strings to negative ads and dirty tricks. south carolina seems to have a reputation for that. mitt romney as the front-

runner, he has to expect that coming from gingrich, from perry and all those forces. everyone gunning for running -- romney, and that they are successful in bringing him down, who are those voters going to go to? there's so many candidates, i think everybody in the race is bound to continue going and make south carolina of their last stand. it makes sense to go after mitt romney with negative ads. but mitt romney also has more money than anybody. he can do that on his own. it will be interesting to see how voters respond to that, and if they do, can they join forces behind that one not/romney candid it. -- not-romney candidate.

host: what is the level of enthusiasm among south carolinians? are people interested in this race? guest: absolutely. south carolina republicans take so much pride in the fact that they picked the president. that is what they like to say. the winner of the republican nomination has to win south carolina in every election cycle since 1980. so they see that as a great responsibility of there's. the old saying is that i'll and there is a field, new hampshire says the table, and south carolina closes the deal. they take a lot of pride in that and you'll probably see a high level of interest for the summer and fall, the story is that nothing is going on. but you will see a lot of voters wake up and they can take their focus on politics and they have

10 days to figure out who they will vote for. was saying anything to watch over the next 10 days that might be all bellwether? guest: representative tim scott, who he endorses. he is the last holdout of a major and doors are here in south carolina. governor haley has already endorsed governor romney. you have a lot of other republicans in the state, mostly jim demand and others, that they will not endorse. but tim scott has held a series of town hall meetings that have been broadcast throughout the state and the country. he has really been involved in a primary process and he has the ability, especially in the low country, were those votes are very critical for mitt romney and husband, he can do a swing for some candidates. i will keep an eye on who he endorses.

host: your former governor mark sanford, is he involved in this or is he sitting in out? guest: i have not heard anything from him or about him in this whole process. he reemerged last year as a commentator for fox news and they brought him out a couple of times, but i have not heard much from him. i do not think you'll be that involve. of spain thank you for giving us a preview of the campaign which begins in earnest tomorrow. a do-or-die state for a number of these competitors in the republican primary. adam beam, a reporter for the state newspaper in columbia, thank you. as a report on the new hampshire primary, let's take a final look at the results. this is with 79% of the votes counted. really the numbers and percentages have not changed, we a scene that in all 10 counties in the state of new hampshire,

interestingly, the same order. mitt romney a 38%, ron paul 24%, john huntsman at 17%. tomorrow on c-span, governor mitt romney will be covered live at columbia, south carolina, at 6:00 tend p.m. eastern, also president obama at a fund-raiser at the university of chicago. we will be carrying that as well. thank you for being with us on primary night, new hampshire 2012. now the governor mitt romney has he met his supporters after winning tonight's contest. [cheers and applause] >> oh.

well. >> there are so many friends here. what a great night this is. thank you, new hampshire. [applause] this could not have happened without the help lot of people. i just need to mention a few of them. special thanks to senator kelly ayotte, governor john sununu -- i don't know where he went. senator judd gregg, congressman charlie bass. they have spoken for us and they have fought for us across

the state. thank you also, mayor. the many state legislators who have been tireless workers on our behalf. one state senator deserves special mention. jeb bradley is out there somewhere. he has fired up audiences everywhere we go. thanks to ray burton, and others who have been there for us from the very beginning. we are grateful to the people who lead our campaign in new hampshire. jim merrill. jason mcbride, and a special thanks to the thousands of volunteers who have devoted countless hours to our calls. finally, we want to thank the people of new hampshire. [applause]

they are the active part of this democratic process. the ones we met by knocking on doors, visiting towns and cities throughout this great state, and who turned out to meet us at one of our many events. now, guess what i want to do? i want to introduce the man who next president of the united states, mitt romney. [cheers and applause] "born free" playing] [chanting mitt]

>> thank you. thank you. tonight, we made history. [cheers and applause] [laughter] this state has always been a very special place for our family. we made a home here and filled it with great memories of our children and grandchildren. the granite state moment we just enjoy it is one i will always remember. it is great to have family here. we go back to work. -- tonight we celebrate, tomorrow we go back to work. [applause] we do remember when barack obama came to new hampshire four years ago, he promised to bring people together. he promised to change the broken system in washington.

nation. -- he promised to improve our nation. those of the days of a lofty president -- lofty promises made by a political candidate. now we're dealing with the failed president. the last three years of not offered much hope. the middle class has been crushed. nearly 24 million of our fellow americans are still out of work. the median income has dropped 10% in the last quarter years, and soldiers returning home from the frontline are waiting now in unemployment lines. our debt is too high and opportunities are too few. and this president wakes up every morning and looks across america and is proud to announce, it could be worse. it could be worse? that's not what it means to be an american. it could be worse. of course not. what defines us as americans is our unwavering conviction that

we know it must be better and it will be better. [chairs and applause] -- [cheers and applause] [chanting mitt] that conviction guides our campaign. it has rallied millions of americans in every corner of this country to our cause. over the last six months, i have listened to and just boys is in town halls and town meetings, visited with students and soldiers, in brick rooms and living rooms. i've heard stories of families getting by on less, of carefully planned retirements now will replaced with jobs at minimum wage. but even now amidst the worst recovery since the great depression, i rarely heard any speech of hopelessness.

americans know that our future is brighter and better than these troubled times. [applause] we still believe -- we still believe in the hope, promise, and the dream of america. we still believe in that shining city on the hill. we know that the future of this country is better than 8% on employment or 9% unemployment. it is better than $15 trillion in debt. it is better than the misguided promises and broken policies of the last three years and a broken promises of one man. the president has run out of ideas. now he is running out of excuses. and tonight --

and tonight, tonight we are asking the good people of south carolina to join the citizens of new hampshire and make 2012 the year he runs out of time. president obama wants to put free enterprise on trial. and in the last few days, we have seen some desperate republicans joined forces with him. [booing] this is such a mistake for our party and for our nation. the country already has a leader who divides us with a bitter politics of envy. we have to offer an alternative vision. i stand ready to lead us down a different path where we are lifted up by our desire to succeed, if not dragged down by our resentment of success.

in difficult times, we cannot abandon the core values that define this is a unique nation. we are one nation under god. made a mistake, in this campaign i will offer the american ideals of economic freedom, a clear and unapologetic defense, and we're going to win with that message. but you know that our campaign is about more than replacing the president. it is about saving the soul of america. this election is a choice between two very different

destinies. president obama wants to fundamentally transform america. we want to restore america to the founding principles that made this country great. he wants to turn america into a european-style social welfare state. we want to ensure that we remain a free and prosperous land of opportunity. this president takes his inspiration from the capitals of your. we look to the cities and towns across america for our inspiration. the president puts his face and government. we put our faith in the american people. [years of laws] -- [cheers and applause]

this president is making the federal government bigger and bloated. i will make it simpler, smarter, and smaller. he raised the national debt. i will cut, cap, and balance the federal budget. [chanting mitt] this president has enacted jobs killing regulation. i will eliminate them. he will say -- he lost our aaa credit rating. i will restored. he passed obamacare. i will repeal it. and when -- and when it comes to the economy, my highest priority as president will be worrying

about your job, not about saving my own. no, nationally -- internationally, president obama has adopted an appeasement strategy. he believes america's role as leader in the world is a thing of the past. i think a strong america must and will lead the future. he's does not see the need for overwhelming military superiority. all insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it. he criticizes our friends like israel. i will always stand with our friends. and he apologizes for america,

and i will never apologize for the greatest nation in the history of the earth. our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the constitution of the united states. now the path they lay out is not one paved with ever-increasing government checks, and cradle to grave assurances that government will always be the solution. if this election is a bidding war, for those it can promise the most benefit, then i am not your president. you already have that president. if you want to make this election about restoring american greatness, then i hope you'll join us. if you believe the disappointment of the last few years are a detour, not a destiny, then i am asking for your vote.

i am asking each of you to remember how special it is to be an american. i want you to remember what it was like to be helpful and excited about the future, not to dread each new headline. i want you to remember when you spend more time dreaming about where using your kids to college than worrying about how to make it to the next paycheck. i wanted to remember when our white house reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what europe has become. that america is still out there. we still believe in that america. we still believe -- we believe, we believe eve.

we still believe in the america that is a land of opportunity and a beacon of freedom. we believe in the america that challenges each of us to be better and bigger than ourselves paying this election, let's go on to fight for the america we love, because we believe in america. thank you so much. god bless america. thank you, you're the best. ♪ [bob seger's "born free"playing

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>> thank you very much. i really do not have to introduce my wife. i think you know my wife, carol. we have a few other members of the family here. we have our daughter-in-law, peggy. we have always said, linda, linda. we have another member of the families on the staff, but he is technically in the family, he is a grand son-in-law. it is a delight, and jim, senator foresight, thank you for your support along with andy, you're co-sponsor ship, i appreciate all that. i do want to mention three names of people who did organization.

jerry, i do not know if he is here. probably still making phone calls or something. and bob goodman, a tremendous amount of work here. and george bryan, he was fantastic. there was one other acknowledgement i wanted to make. i wanted to thank the union leader for not endorsing a. [cheers and applause] i called governor romney a short while ago before he gave his talk and congratulated him because he had a clear-cut victory. but we are nibbling at his heels.

but there was another victory tonight. he had a victory, but we have had a victory for the cause of liberty kony. [applause] there is no doubt that this whole effort that we're involved in will not go unnoticed. let me tell you. i think the intellectual revolution going on now to restore liberty in this country is well on its way and there is no way they are going to stop the momentum that we have started. [applause] and that is the victory did you have brought about, because you have been the ones that have done the work. there are a lot of people here, but the ones across the country, the donors and the excitement on the campuses, it is just unbelievable.

if we do not always get the coverage for the interest shown on what is going on, because if they did, they would not ignore some much of what we're doing. i find it sort of fascinating when they finally get around and these are different people, it could be in the media or our opponents, but i have to chuckle when they describe you and me as being dangerous. a [applause] that is one thing they're telling the truth, because we are dangerous to the status quo of this country. [cheers and applause] >> president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! >> and we will remain a danger to the federal reserve system as

well. >> and the fed! in the fed! end the fed! >> in setting monetary history from the beginning our history and throughout history, monetary policy on periodic vacations will become the dominant issue. we have emphasized that and it has become an important issue. just think, this is the first presidential campaign that the shop -- ever came up since the federal reserve was started. it will remain a dominant issue, there is no way they will put it to bed because they have destroyed our money, it is worldwide, there is a financial crisis going on, and it is only

sound money and personal liberty beckons all the crisis that we have today. -- that can solve the crisis that we have to date. one reason that i talk about the monetary so much, it was a sneaky deceitful way to pay the bills. and honest government that wants to be a big spending government would tax the people, and then the people would know what they were doing a. if we had to pay taxes for everything that they do, the people would rise up and stop it. so then they started borrowing money allotted people did not notice that quite as much, because they passed that on. and then resorted to the printing of the money and that is why the federal reserve was established, to take care of the powerful interests, the military-industrial complex, the bank system, and deficit financing. a couple of reasons they have deficit financing. sometimes there are conservatives that want and deficit financing and sometimes

there are liberals, and they have resorted to this. of course this is why we are facing this crisis today. but it also serves those interests who like to think that we have this responsibility -- they claim it is a moral responsibility to take our young people, put them into the military, and send them hither and yon around the world police in the world and using up the money. booing] just as we have been able to bring to the four fund the most important issue of that funny money, and the federal reserve, we brought it to the forefront. others have not openly talked about it and they do nothing about it. there is a liberty movement that

is saying to the country and to the world, we have had enough of sending our kids and our money around the world to be the policeman of the world. it is time to bring them home. [applause] >> president paul! bring them home! bring them home. bring them home. bring them home. >> the one thing is we know that they will come home. my goal and our goal has always been to bring them home in a deliberate fashion to avoid major economic crisis by destroying our economy by spending so much overseas. in the last 10 years, the war's going on have added $4 trillion of debt. i do not think we have been one let this say -- one bit more say for it. i think we have been less safe because of all the money we have spent overseas. this is the issue now.

it is an issue that i think it's crucial. jim mentioned in the introduction the sell-off and they say that if we tell people that we think we should spend less and the military, though, that means you want to cut defense. no, if you cut the military industrial complex, you cut war profiteering but you do not take one penny out of national defence. and besides, we are flat out broker. fortunately we did not have to fight the soviets. the soviets brought themselves down for economic reasons. do you know that they were so foolish and bought themselves sobol that they could pursue their world empire and invaded gap -- afghanistan? but we will come home, but if we do it now, calmly and deliberately, we can save our economy here at home.

because there are a lot of people suffering here it home. you have to stop inflation. that is what destroys the middle class and transfer the wealth from the poor and the middle class to the wealthy. that is why the wealthy got there bailouts and the middle class shrunk and they lost their jobs in their houses. so this is what we have to do. we have to cut the spending. this is why i have made a token suggestion in the first year of office, we would cut at least $1 trillion from the budget. [applause] now the one thing -- pataki during washington is pure talk because there's nobody is suggesting -- the other candidates are not talking about real cuts. they are talking about cutting proposed increases out in 10 years. they say will cut $1 trillion. yes over 10 years, $100 billion every year. our national debt is going up

$100 billion every month and they claim that is cutting and they are yelling and screaming, we cannot cut. we cannot cut. we have to cut. we have to live within our means if we want to be able to at least take care of the people of been made to be so dependent on the government. i mean, we ought to work our way out. if we did this and cut the overseas spending, at least we might be able to allow the social security beneficiaries to get their checks and medical care provided. but if we continue to do what we're doing, the results are that the dollar is destroyed and the whole thing comes apart and it is going to be a worldwide phenomenon. already sells a security beneficiaries are suffering a lot. -- social security beneficiaries are suffering a lot. their income is shrinking because the value of the dollar is going down. you have to think about cutting in stopping inflation and ask once again as our founders did, what to the role of government be in a free society?

the roles should be very simple -- the protection of liberty. >> ron paul revolution. >> wonderful, wonderful. no, constitution was written for very precise manner. it was not designed to restrain the individual. not to restrain you. it was to protect your liberties and to restrain the federal government. of liberty has to be reemphasized because we have been careless of the last 100 years. we have taken liberty and chop it up into pieces. some people liberty has to do with personal habits, which i agree. other people think liberty is about how to spend your money

and they fight about when to do what. i think what we need to do is make this emphasis -- liberty means you have a right in your privacy and the way you want to live your life as long as you do not hurt people and you have the right and keep and spend your money as you want to. freedom is a wonderful idea. that is why i get so excited and i really get excited when i see young people saying it. it really is a wonderful idea. freedom is popular, don't you know that? freedom brings people together. i think it is magnificent of the crowds that have come out of the weeks and months that have been very diverse. it should be. because some people want their freedom to practice their religion one way, and maybe another way, some might not even want to practice it at all. but freedom, if you understand it, you should all fight for

freedom because you want to exert your freedom away that you want gary the same with economic freedom. pitch to bring people together. i think this is one reason people wonder about how you put together coalitions, how are you going to compromise and give up some of your beliefs in order to get something passed. you do not have to compromise. you have to emphasize the coalition that people want their freedoms for different reasons and bring them together. americas been the greatest country ever, the most prosperous country ever, the largest middle-class ever. it is not that way today. our middle class is shrinking, the country is getting poorer, the wealth is based on debt, that you really holds the debt it shifts of are due to the regulations to control our government. we of had too many people too long and the last 100 years

thinking that it was beneficial to have high paid lobbyists to get them to find out what they can get from the government, rather than us petitioning our government in a proper manner, petitioning our government and demanding our freedoms back again. a lot times they give us trouble and they say, freedom, and you people are just to show office. all you want to do is have your freedom. -- you are just too shellfish. -- selfish. the bleeding hearts, i understand them and i recognize them and i think most of them are well intended. it does not work is the problem. all the good intentions of saying we're going to give everybody a free housing loans and then they can borrow against the equity, look what happened. it was a bubble, they burst and they lost their homes.

humanitarian instincts are there across the board. if you are a true humanitarian, you have to fight and argue the case for free markets, sound money, property rights, contract rights, no use of force, and a sensible foreign policy so that we do not waste our resources. [applause] we are well on our way. we are well on our way. people ask me what i expect five years for 10 years ago. i had no idea. i always assumed the best i could do was set a record. i did not know you're out there. [applause] it is no longer that irate minorities during of the troops. now the high rate menard 8, so tireless is you have been, it is growing by leaps and bounds.

it will continue to grow by leaps and bounds. and we will restore freedom to this country. thank you very much. thank you. >> president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! president paul! [cheers and applause] ♪ >> next we will hear jon huntsman speak to his

supporters. he finished third in the new hampshire's primary. ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen, i think we are in the hunt. [applause] [unintelligible] >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. i would say third place is a ticket to ride, ladies and gentleman. hello, south carolina!

ladies and gentlemen, we are here tonight because of you. we have got the greatest volunteers, the grid as the organizers at the state has ever seen. it give yourselves a hand. and we have proved the point that this state once its candidates to earn it the old- fashioned way peeving that is on the grant, and checked by handshake, conversation by conversation, though it by vote, and we got it done, ladies and gentleman. do you know what else we got done during this great seven months where we have had at least 170 public events in this great state? 170 public events, no one even came close. we had conversations about the importance of putting this country first, let is in john.

-- ladies and gentleman. >> country first. country first. country first. country first. country first. country first. >> because the people of this great nation, the greatest nation that ever was, they are tired of being divided. they want leadership that will stand up to tell us all the first and foremost we need to comic -- come together as americans to solve our problems. [applause] when the president, ladies and gentlemen, that will stand up and say we have an economic deficit -- it is called $15 trillion in debt. this is the debt problem, it is a national security problem, and

we will not leave it up to the next generation of americans, ladies and gentlemen. i want to stand up and i want to square with the american people about this. afghanistan is not our nation's future. and iraq is not this nation's future. is nowion's future prepared we are to rise up as the american people and it had on the competitive challenges of the 21st century. do you know what i'm talking about? and this is about economics. and this is about education, and this is going to play out over the pacific ocean with countries that i have lived in before. all i can tell you tonight without any hint of hyperbole, folks, if we do not get our act together at home, we will see the end of the american century by 20 to 50.

and we're not going to let that happen, are we? ladies and gentlemen, we've also been able to get our message out to the people of this great state about a second deficit that we have. it is not an economic deficit but it is just as corrosive as the economic deficit. it is called a trust deficit. because the people of the greatest nation that ever was, the united states of america, no longer trust their institutions of power. and no longer trust their elected officials, and i say, how did we get to this spot? we are to good people to be in hole.who we're the most problem-solving, can do optimistic people and are then we're going to get out there and address that trust deficit. it is going to start with

congress. everyone knows that congress needs term limits. and everybody knows we have got to close that rubble in door that allows members of congress talk filed ride on now to become a lobbyist trading in on their insider information and relationships, and we wonder why there is cynicism as seen by the american people toward congress? no trust. and i say, there is no trust in our wars abroad, ladies and gentleman, and we will fix that, because i will stand up and find the american people, and i will say we have something to show for our 10 years and the war on terror, something to show for the american people that is a board. we run the taliban from power. we have dismantled al qaeda, they are now in sanctuaries in was 0 stan and beyond. osama bin laden is no longer around. we've had free elections, we have strengthened civil society

and helped the military and the police. we have done with this nation can do. it is time to bring the troops home from afghanistan ladies and gentleman. we need trust in views to -- infused back into this nation. this nation, the greatest nation on earth, has every attribute a nation would ever want for success, you know that? that is why we're going to succeed as we go forward. all we need is a little bit of leadership and a plan. i saw this coming from 10,000 miles away, you hear me? when you see this nation from abroad, use -- you tend to see it in bold colors. t know what i saw living in china? i saw a nation with the greatest people on earth.

a nation that is down for the moment and down temporarily. but a nation that is about to rise up again, because we have every attribute a nation would ever want to succeed. instability. we have rule of law. -- we have stability. we have rule of law. we have the longest surviving constitution in the world. we even have private property rights right here in new hampshire. the of the greatest colleges and universities on her, and people flocked here from every corner to attend them. we have the most creative and entrepreneurial people anywhere and they're sitting on their hands because there is no confidence about the direction or the leadership of this nation. and i say, that is an engine of growth that we're going to retire. we have the greatest and most courageous armed forces this nation has ever seen.

[cheers and applause] i will be darned if we are going to allow the men and women to come from the theatres of combat, the frontlines to the unemployment lines. that is not going to happen. those men and women who have worn the uniform of the unites states of america will come hoem to dignity and admiration. they will come home to jobs and opportunity as well. they are going to do the same thing for this nation that the greatest generation did so many decades ago. they rebuilt this nation and pulled it up by their bootstraps. there is another for this generation coming up. you know who they are.

they will do what earlier generations did. they will help us rebuild this generation rebuild in this nation. it will make it the best they can be. ladies and gentlemen, i love the state. this state -- and this state we have worked hard and diligently. we have pounded the pavement and shaking hands. we have had conversations and one people over person by person. this is the old way to get politics done in new hampshire. my confidence in the system is reborn. they just turn out at these town hall meetings. nobody forces that are tells them they have to do it. it is because they believe in a better tomorrow for the united states of america. [applause]

thank you very much. they turned out to the town hall meetings and it turned out to the house parties and hear from the candidates. the assimilate and the date digested all and they render a judgment. here we sit tonight with a ticket to ride and to move on. here we go to south carolina. thank you very much. [cheers and applause] [chanting "join the hunt"] ♪

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>> now, we will hear from rick santorum. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> thank you for all of the folks up here. i want to thank you very much for everything you have done in new hampshire. we came up here just about 10 days ago. the polls were having us about 1% or 2%. after iowa the most recent poll was 3%. depending on your math three have either 10 times, five times, or three times where we started. that is what we wanted to do. we wanted to respect the process. we wanted to respect the fact that we would campaign in every single state, states that were good for us and the states that

may be a little tougher. you run in a state like new hampshire that had a lot of folks here spending a lot of time and money, we knew it would be tough. the message we have of going out and be leaving in the american people -- believing that we need to have opportunities not just for some in america, we need somebody that will go out and speak for all americans to be able to have the opportunity to rise in society. we took that message to new hampshire. we talk about manufacturing plants and what we would do to grow the economy. we took it to talk about faith and family as the basis and bedrock of society. [applause] and buy your work and the grass roots effort and the crowds that we have had, we go to this

campaign here in new hampshire just a very short period of time. we did not spend a lot of money, but we put a lot of effort into this. we put our message out there. we came were the campaign was. we delivered a message not just for new hampshire, but we delivered a message for america that we have a campaign here -- [applause] we have a campaign that has a message and a messenger that can deliver what we need. first and foremost, that is to defeat barack obama. [applause]

the message as i mentioned in iowa from the grandson of a coal miner. somebody who believed deeply that the responsibility that he had as someone who risked his life for a sovereign, taking when he served in the austrian army during world war one. he fought on the russian front. if it was not for the aid of a friend calling from a foxhole and pulling my would grandfather back into that foxhole, i would not be here today. he fought for somebody who did not care about him. he came to america because he wanted to make sure that his children would be in a free country and his grandchildren would be in a free country. ladies and gentlemen, that is our charge and that is what is at stake in america today. [applause]

let me assure you, he was not deterred by some temporary setbacks. he believed in the greatness of this country and he believed in the freedom of opportunity that this country presented. we are going to go on to south carolina. [applause] for those who like to think that somehow or another that this risk could be over and one or two states, states that have

been, well, the backyard and home of a certain candidate -- who by the way i want to congratulate mitt romney for a great victory tonight. [applause] he worked hard in the state and he invested in the state. the people of new hampshire gave him a very hard earned factory. i spoke with governor mitt romney and congratulated him on that when the and said i am looking forward to engage in on the subject matter of issues. i am talking about records and the way to put the best foot forward to deliver a message to the american people that can unitas. we have an opportunity in this race. we have an opportunity to be the true conservative who can go out and do what is necessary not just to win this race. we can win this race. [applause]

to be the conservative who understands that at the foundation of our country are institutions that are crucial for us to be successful nation, families that are bonded together at the foundation that instill for two and phase to build strong communities. that is the message along with a government that understands that we have to create a playing field for all americans to be able to be successful in this country. we have a message that can appeal not just in south

carolina but across this nation and in particular in the states that are necessary for us to win this election, the states that are the swing states, it the states that have been successful. we're not only going to deliver the basic structure and foundation of our country being safe and family, but we're going to do so understanding that good faith in the american people we can not only wipe out of this deficit, we can not only have a strong america that stands up for the values that i just talked about but we can do so in a huge victory that will rally this country to take on the great challenges. on to south carolina.

thank you and god bless. ♪ ♪ it's been a hard day's night but when i get home to you i find the things you do will make me feel alright ♪

you know i feel okay when i'm home everything seems to be right when i'm home feeling you holding me tight it's been a hard day's night and i've been working like a dog it's been a hard day's nigjt you should be sleeping like a log but when i get home to you and the things that you do make me feel right ♪ ♪

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>> now, we will hear from newt gingrich. [applause] ♪

[applause] >> i want to thank each and every one of you. i also want to thank each and every person from the state of new hampshire. everywhere we went it was remarkable how many people were positive and actively supportive and helpful. i am delighted to have this chance and to learn more about the concerns. i am thankful to everyone here that does been helpful, especially speaker o'brien who did such a great, great job.

one of the great virtues of running is that everywhere you go you learn something. you pick up a better understanding of america. i have to say that the leadership that speaker o'brien and the house showed in developing a new approach that i hope will become adopted everywhere in america, where they actually had the ways and means committee report first. it indicated how much money they would have a. they then actually adopted a budget to fix their income -- to fit their income. it is the opposite of every other state in the country. the result was a very courageous and a very serious effort in which they cut 11% out of spending which is a remarkable achievement.

in washington it would begin to move us back here this a step to of a long process. you learn certain things. let me put in context where we are. we have an opportunity to unify the country around a message of jobs, economic growth, and very dramatic programs. the opportunity is to reach out to everybody of every background who would rather have paychecks than food stamps to convince them that what ronald way again did not go crazy millions of new jobs, what we did when i was speaker in 1990's in creating millions of new jobs, it can be done again.

this campaign is going to go on to south carolina. thee going to offer american people something very different. but we're going to offer them an opportunity to participate in very dramatic, very fundamental change in washington, d.c. we're going to prove that i both understand the principles and i understand the practice. i learned a lot of those principles from ronald reagan and margaret thatcher. i got to practice them as a junior college and working with ronald reagan. i got to practice as a speaker working with bill clinton. i want to suggest to you when ronald reagan was president, we have to find a way to get votes to the house despite the fact that o'neill was speaker.

when i was speaker, we had a way to the bill signed a despite the fact that bill clinton was president. i believe if we had a republican house, a republican senate, and they become rich presidency, it would be amazing -- and a gingrich presidency, it would be amazing how much we could get done. [applause] we're going to take to south carolina tonight and kick off tomorrow morning a campaign for jobs and economic growth, a campaign for a balanced budget, a campaign for returning power to the states to the 10th amendment, a campaign for a strong national security, a campaign for a stable, solid social security program both for people now on it and for the young people who are here

who deserve a chance in their lifetime to have an even better program with a greater return. if we are smart, we can do better things for people. how do we raise taxes and cut spending in way that causes you paying on the spending sign and causes you paint on the tax side is exactly backward. i was really struck. this is part of learning. we have a debate. we were asked a question about the heating assistance program. it was praised in the washington way. are you going to run a bigger deficits the canal or people or are you going to cut people off? nobody on the panel asked the question seemed to consider an alternative. what if we simply went out and developed american oil and gas, brought down the cost of heating oil and did not need to help people because the price came down?

that idea of doing more and doing a better does not exist in the washington lexicon. it makes it hard because it is so strange. what if you were just innovative? what did you have new approaches? what if he did americans -- what if you did everything americans have always done? the free enterprise system that attracted people from people from henry ford to thomas edison to bill gates to steve jobs, that model but maximizing the development of new approaches, new energy, new opportunities, new technologies, has raised the standard of living across the planet more than any other system in the world. you have been wonderful to us

here. i am asking each of you not to slow down. not the next couple of days, and make a list of every person you know in south carolina and every person you know in florida. those are the next great contest. as the choice becomes clear, as people understand that there is a bold break a conservative approach of lower taxes, less regulation, more american energy, a sound dollar, and being in favor of creating jobs, the opposite of the obama programs of higher taxes, more regulation, more american energy, and attacking people would create jobs, look at those two models. we can reach out and create a majority that will shock the

country and a majority that will put this back on the right track. it is doable. it is a daunting challenge. consider the alternative. if we do not go the extra mile and we do not offer a vision powerful enough to unify americans and we continue down the road that obama has as often, what the judges have us on, more years of decay, more years of inadequacy, more years of falling behind, more years of growing weakness. that is the alternative. i believe it will take someone that is capable of debating barack obama face-to-face, and delivering the conservative message, winning the argument, in order to overcome his billion dollar machine. with your help, as your spokesperson representing your values on behalf of our

children, our grandchildren, and our country, i will do everything i can to win the opportunity to represent you in this fall in debating in defeating barack obama. thank you. got bless you. [cheers and applause] ♪

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>> for my wife. iraq's we will have more political coverage tomorrow on c-span. president obama will take his campaign to his home town. that is live at 6:50 eastern time, and mitt romney and will campaign in colombia, south carolina. the state holds its presidential primary on january 21. watch live coverage on c-span. >> joe biden spoke at a teleconference while primary votes were being counted.

he was joined by debby wasserman schulz. the organization held in primary campaign of fence across the state. -- primary campaign events across the state. this is about 30 minutes. >> i am thrilled to be joined by a few hundred of my closest friends. i also want to give a special welcome to the thousands of volunteers joining us across the stage. i want to thank so many of you for your time and energy, and we want to say how appreciative we are. we are going to be joined in a couple minutes by joe biden, but now it is my honor to present the chairman of the democratic

committee. >> thank you so much. thank you for the honorary designation. some of you know i have a family home in newbury and spend a lot of time here, so this is my second favorite place in the world, and it has really been wonderful being here. for those of you who have attended house parties, we really know as mitt romney closes of his shop and packs of to go to south carolina and puts new hampshire in his rearview mirror, we are going to be making sure we operates the most robust and grass-roots presidential campaign that has ever been seen, and that is

thanks to all of you. i have been talking about the dramatic contrast between mitt romney and the direction he believes in this country should go and making sure the wind is kept of the back of the most fortunate americans. someone who said he enjoys firing people. he understands the plight of people who have lost their jobs because there have been times he has wherein he would get a pink slip. i think his only familiarity with pink slips is because he has given out so many of them. if there is anybody who should do well in this state, it is mitt romney. it is practically his home state. we can see the lack of enthusiasm, because when you do

not have any conviction, when you do not stand for anything just to get elected, that is the kind of confidence of voters want to see. what we know of of else -- above all else as we are going to work every day to make sure we talk about barack obama's incredible accomplishments, the tax breaks he is able to provide to 95% of americans and 22 straight months of job growth in the private sector, and it is my privilege to introduce someone who is very special to you, but she is very special to me because we know her eyes are champion outfielder. as your united states senator,

and jean chretien -- shaheen. >> thank you, everybody. [applause] i like this. this is good. get fired up. c'mon. isn't it great to have our withrful chairwoman heare us in new hampshire? debbie wasserman shultz is here not only to celebrate today, but to get us started on the next step of all long journey to reelect a rocker obama come november -- to reelect a rocker obama come november. some of you may wonder what

happened to my arm. i got this arm wrestling mitch mcconnell. i want to thank all of you who have worked so hard over the last weeks and months. this is really a dry run for what we need to do nine months from now, so thank you to all of these activists who are here, for all of the party's supporters, to our state's share, and to everyone who has worked so hard. it is just the beginning, and we have a lot more to do. of course my husband is here, too. he is starting to work already. [applause] you may have noticed there is also a republican primary going

on today. i know we are watching who is going to win this republican primary, a reality is it does not matter of holocaust -- does not matter a whole lot, because we know they are all different shades of the same color, and that color is scary. we have candidates who want to send our troops back to iraq. we have a candidate who believes we should outlaw contraceptives and birth control, and most of those candidates on the republican side and not supported the budget that would end medicare and turn it into a voucher program, and let's talk about jobs, because we all know what we need to do in new

hampshire and across this country is to put back to work those people who are unemployed. we need to grow this country, and there is a huge difference between the vision barack obama has for growing jobs in this country, and the vision every one of those republican nominees have that one to support policies that support the top 1%. barack obama knows we need to help the middle class, and that is the backbone of our country, and we need to make sure people can get by to work. i like to talk about the auto industry. [applause] the fact is this president believed it was important to help the auto industry, so now we have are robust auto industry, and here in new

hampshire we have over 20,000 jobs that are still here because we held out of their industry, and we are making cars and we do we help -- because we helped the auto industry, and we are making cars again. we have 3.1 million jobs that have been created. that is very different from january of 2009 when we were losing 750,000 jobs the month. it does not matter who wins the republican nomination. they are going back to the policies of the bush administration we have been fighting for the last three years to get us out of. we know barack obama is the person to do this. we have got to re-elect him, and we have to do everything we can for the next nine months to make sure we return him to the white house. goo[applause]

one of the people who is going to help make out happened is our friend from new hampshire, the man from scranton, pennsylvania. we call him at one of our own, vice president joe biden. we are about to get him on video, and with him is the national field director for the campaign, so mr. vice president, we are glad to have you in new hampshire. [applause] >> it is my pleasure to be moderating the event tonight, and without further ado i would like to turn it over to the man who fights for you every single day, the vice-president of the united states, joe biden. >> my son was in iraq for a

year. i understand the miscommunication, so i apologize if the connection is not what you expect. when the president and i came into office, we inherited a mess of historic proportions. our economy was failing people, and the country was in trouble. we did what we had to do, and we faced an absolutely unified opposition been set against every single thing we tried to doo. every initiative and we passed was passed without a single republican vote, and in the process, we stabilize the financial system. we saved over 3 million jobs.

we passed historic health care reform. you will see the results. 22 straight months of private sector job growth, and it is all happening with virtually no republican support, and there is something else we inherited. and we inherited a broken and no bargain. the deal our parents did not have to face. that was the basic deal, which is that middle-class folks got to share in the benefits they helped produce in this country. that was broken during the bush years, and we were determined to fix it. they did not understand that. mitt romney has no idea of the it is broken. how else could they say the the way to fix the foreclosure

crisis is just by letting it all go to the bottom? foreclosure is the only way to clean things out. how else are you going to say republicans are the opportunity party? opportunity by providing incredible tax cuts to the wealthy and where they are helping the kids get to college or anything else, he characterized as the party of entitlements. people who work hard are entitled to an equal shot. the republican party stands for something different from your father's republican party. it is not only mitt romney, but all the other guys. this is not what the president is about. it is not what are rock -- what

barack is about. the grand bargain that has allowed the middle class to prosper in the last century have been basically ignored by these guys, and we have one overarching commitment to give the middle-class a fighting chance to maintain their independence, to give them a fighting chance to reach the aspirations they have, a fighting chance to live in a decent neighborhood. that is what this is about. these guys will spend hundreds of millions of dollars. we have something more powerful. we have all of you and millions of people like you who are willing to go door-to-door, talk to their neighbors, and make

their case. the republican party took over congress in 2010, and some of the governors who took over, i really believe these guys have opened the eyes of the american people to what this republican party stands for. we saw that in ohio with a republican who tried to eliminate public programs. you see it in stark relief for republicans in congress. they were fighting against tax cut for middle income people. the blunders were off, and we have two important things. maybe most important, the

republican party is no longer trying to hide the ball anymore. they are not talking about medicare and social security and about how they care for opportunities for everyone. these guys are about saying what they are for. they want to about to rise medicare and cut education. they want to eliminate the ability to help middle-class kids get to college. now that we brought back the troops and the president kept his commitment, they want to send them back. it is not about barack obama or joe biden. it is about decent middle-class people and giving americans a fighting chance.

i am happy to take questions if you have time. >> thank you so much for taking time to talk to us. we are going to start in nashua with monica. are you with us endowment? >> it is an honor to be able to ask a question to night. you and your president keeping your commitment to end the war in iraq. what is your mission for the second term? >> thank you. it was a commitment we made and both felt strongly, and i think a lot of people doubted it was going to be done. when we came into office, we inherited two wars, one in iraq

and afghanistan, and we face a surge in out kinda -- in al qaeda. we lost the respect of a lot of our friends, so the president set about ending the war in iraq and putting afghanistan on our responsible course where we will turn over full responsibility for the security of the country to the afghanis by the end of 2014. the president has gone out of the way with the incredible hulk of some of the brave men and women out there, -- the incredible help of some of the brave men and women out there, and they have decimated now kinda -- estimated about kinda -- al qaeda.

the president led the efforts to find and eliminate osama bin laden. in almost one fell swoop, and now with the election of a rock obama, we regain our stand -- of barack obama, we regain our standing because not only should they respect our power, but they should respect the power of our ideas. look at what we have done. we have been able to generate new partnerships around the world. [no audio] here is one example. [no idea] what did we do? we used our incredibly advanced technology. we organized not only the

europeans. we also organize the arab states. with little money, no truth of the ground, and not a single loss of american life -- no boots on the ground, and not a single loss of american life. we need to focus on soft power. our power lies in being able to lead the rest of the world in dealing with no food shortage and dealing with hiv and uniting the world for a common purpose, so i believe barack obama has done more in three years and then all the presidents i served in eight years in enhancing our security, restoring our leadership, and putting us in a position where the next 10 years are not going to be like a last stand. -- like last ten.

>> thank you for joining us. we are going to take another question. we are going to go to portsmouth, where we have cristina. >> i am here. hi, mr. vice president. i know you and the president have been working really hard for middle-class families, and as we are making these phone calls for voters, i wonder how we respond to people who are struggling on a day-to-day basis, even with the economy improving, how we respond as they make their decisions for november? >> the economy is improving. people are going to steer a the

ceiling wondering if they will be in that house. my grandpa used to say, when we got in from a suburb, when he got out of work is an economic slowdown, and when you are out of work, it is a depression. they have been stripped not only of their ability to make a living, but they have been stripped of their dignity. my dad used to say a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. it is about your dignity. it is about your sense of self, and these guys do not get it. i was raised in the house where when there was a recession in our household, sitting around our dining room table, everyone knew someone around the table was going to lose their jobs. someone was going to lose their

job, and raising a family like that, you understand the urgency of what we are talking about. we need to restore this bargain. i could say two more things. number one, the american people have never failed in their country. all barack and i are trying to do is get them on a level playing field, give them a shot. it is not enough that we get back the jobs lost in the 20th- century. we have to create new areas of employment to compete in the 21st century for a good paying jobs. we are not looking to have a

race to the bottom like some of my republican friends think were you have to pay minimum wage, and that is fine. we are in the business of providing decent jobs, and all of the season jobs require -- [no audio] we have to invest in infrastructure. if i took you to china or beijing [no audio] and took the blindfold off and said, where are you, you would think it was three u.s. airports. the rest of the world has moved ahead of us. that will attract businesses.

it will create good paying jobs, not just laying down concrete and asphalt. engineers to come up with a plan. the second thing we have to do is invest. we have the greatest universities in the world. again we have the most innovative people in the world, and we have the ability to marshal capital for new ideas, but in every previous generation, the government has had a vision about how to go ahead and do that, so they have invested in renewable energy. they have invested in the ideas of the future, and then a private business takes over. we cannot believe it is possible to lead the 20th century with the energy problems we have now. does anybody think we can make

it with an energy policy focused on oil and coal? we are going to continue to invest in renewable energy, and in new breakthroughs, new medicines, the things we have the capacity to do better than anyone in the world and provide good jobs, but the face of this, we both know how we would not be where we are without the help to get a college education. we now rank 16th in the world in the percentage of the population that graduates from college. my wife teaches full time in a community college. she said any country that out educates us will out compete us. those beautiful children are as bright and capable and as

incredible as any children in the world. the difference is for millions of middle-class people and those struggling to get into the middle class, they have this beautiful child who is capable, and they have to look get them knowing, i cannot get them into college. no child should be denied. i will conclude by saying this. apart that boggles me about this republican party, it is a different party that existed 20 years ago. the thing that bothers me about these folks, they have a different sense about what the country is about. i remember when i was a senior in high school, and i was trying to get to school, and my dad ran an automobile agency.

he did not own it. he was the manager. i was a senior. i was taking my girlfriend to her junior prom, and i said, where is dad? she said, he is out in the side lot, and i just came from a baseball game. my dad was a decent, honorable, a proud man. he looked at me and said, i am so sorry. i will never forget this. he said, i went to the bank to borrow the money, and they will not lend me the money. i do not know what i am going to do. it is not just about the kid who does not get there. it is about the parent, who is stripped of their dignity and the idea of