mr. gingrich than he is against mr. romney, mr. santorum is chipping away at the great personal barrier for him that is newt gingrich. these were must did she win states for gingrich even to mr. gingrich is claiming tonight he'll stay in the race despite losing in both places. when we come back, the latest news about the barriers republicans are building for american voters at the ballot box wherever they can and they played out in an interesting way in mississippi. that's next. >>> voters in mississippi went to the polls for the first big election since that state decided to make it much harder to vote. in november, mississippi approved new limits on the right to cast an ordinary ballot on election day. that right should extend only to people who can present an approved photo id at the poll. many thousands of people in mississippi do not have an approved photo id like that. maybe a quarter of all mississippi african americans. for instance. they make voter harder amendment was favored in white districts in mississippi passed by a w

mr. gingrich than he is against mr. romney, mr. santorum is chipping away at the great personal barrier for him that is newt gingrich. these were must did she win states for gingrich even to mr. gingrich is claiming tonight he'll stay in the race despite losing in both places. when we come back, the latest news about the barriers republicans are building for american voters at the ballot box wherever they can and they played out in an interesting way in mississippi. that's next. >>> voters in mississippi went to the polls for the first big election since that state decided to make it much harder to vote. in november, mississippi approved new limits on the right to cast an ordinary ballot on election day. that right should extend only to people who can present an approved photo id at the poll. many thousands of people in mississippi do not have an approved photo id like that. maybe a quarter of all mississippi african americans. for instance. they make voter harder amendment was favored in white districts in mississippi passed by a w

mr. gingrich nor his wife will actually be voting in their home state? >> well, mr. and mrs. ts of virginia, as am i. virginia denied him access to the ballot as did rick santorum and everybody else except for ron paul. i held my nose and voted for ron paul. if he can't vote for himself, maybe his time is better spent gathering votes in georgia or alabama. >> is it mr. gingrich's view that if he doesn't like a candidate, his preference would be not to vote at all. let's say we get to the presidential election abtds it's mitt romney versus the president. if he can't hold his nose, does he not vote at all. does he tell people that vote republican don't bother going to the polls, like i didn't. >> i notice when you talk about the president and holding him in accolade and talking about serious issues of iran and iraq but when you come to the republicans to be fair, we want to talk about trivia. iem happy to talk about -- >> sorry. it's not a trivial manner for a man who talks about fundamental change in the democratic process and uses the word fundamentally every day to apply and

mrs. gingrich at they are elementary book signing/campaign event. mr. ing on. the came in a thirder place in louisiana. that's a problem for newt gingrich even if his strategy is to go to the republican convention in tampa and try to win the nomination there through a contested convention. as nbc has been reporting the republican party's rules say in order to compete for the nomination, to have your name put forward you have to win at least five states. any candidate needs to win a flurlty of the delegates in five states to even have their name put forward for the nomination. mr. gingrich has so far won two states. his home state of georgia and south carolina. no matter how bad you are at math, two does not round up to five. it is not looking good for bl gingrich but looking good for book sales. that's what is happening at the lower etch lons of the republican primary right now. look at the results from the primary in ha la this weekend. rick santorum won the state overall. he got the most votes in every single income bracket. republicans who made under

mr. gingrich is pressing on after losing the louisiana primary this weekend. distant third in louisiana. that's a problem for newt gingrich even if his strategy is to go to the republican convention in tampa and try to win the nomination there through a contested convention. the republican party rule say in order to compete for the nomination, in order to have your name put forward, you have to win at least five states. any candidate needs to win a plurality to have their name put forward for the nomination. mr. gingrich has won two states, his home state of georgia and south carolina. two does not round up to five. it's not looking good for mr. gingrich. i bet it's still looking good for book sales. there seems to be trouble at the top. take a look at the results from the primary this weekend. rick santorum won the state overall. he got the most votes in every single income brook et. republican who is made under $30,000 a year. santorum defeated romney there by 53 point ts. people making 30 to 45,000, santorum won. then mitt romney does run away with it in the

mr. gingrich's running mate. they chanted that at least. >> rick santorum showed enormous courage in iowa when had no money, nobody covered him and he kept campaigning. >> vp, vp. vp,vp. >> vp, vp newt gingrich basking this that idea. while newt gingrich used to enjoy sharing the ticket with rick santorum, mitt romney would not share his ticket with rick santorum. he was asked about potential running mate choses last night on the fox newschannel, here is what he said. >> do you think though the fact that people like sarah palin, just recently endorsed newt gingrich and other conservatives are still holding back on you that if you were to become the nominee of your party, circumstances you would almost have to put a conservative, a real i know you say you're conservative, to the right of you on your ticket. >> well, that would preclude rick santorum, because look at his record. i find it interesting he continues to describe himself as the real conservative. this is the guy who voted against right to work. this is t

mr. gingrich's in orange. those are the states that mitt romney has won, massachusetts, vermont, virginia, washington state, arizona, michigan, maine, nevada, florida and new hampshire. chris, too close to call right now in tennessee, too close to call right now in oklahoma. >> those are two states -- >> too early. >> it will keep him in the race if santorum wins. if he can't win in ohio he can't win the nomination but he can stay in it. >> a close race in ohio is not enough to keep rick santorum viable? >> it's close in ohio i'm guessing he'll win the other two states, that means he has had a good night. it's been a process of between, of romney search and destroy, finds the states he needs to win i'm looking at numbers, 96% of his spending on restore our future, his super pac has been negative. it is not to sell him it's to destroy opponents. this will carry in the general election, you will see the two giant campaigns, the president's billion dollar campaign, the republicans billion dollar campaign basicall

mr. gingrich was too awesome for his own they can sit out the campaign, come in third or fourth place in imary and have newt gingrich named the winner at the convention in august. >> look, clearly we're going to have to go on a fierily tight budget to get from here to tampa, but i think we can do it. i intend to be there all the way to tampa. >> all the way through to tampa. >> if you think of the republican presidential race as a marathon, newt gingrich has stopped running in the marathon and decided to drive to the finish line instead. you mean the first one across the finish line wins? okay. i'll meet you there. i don't know why all these suckers are running. my way is so much faster, and it has air-conditioning. you would be forgiven for thinking that newt gingrich looks like he's quitting the republican presidential campaign. that is, in fact, what he's doing. but according to mr. gingrich's own assessment of himself, it's really just the start of his awesome drive to the finish line. of his awesome drive to the

mr. gingrich was too awesome for his own campaign. he mind of gingrich is key to understanding the big news that politico.com broke late last night. the news that he's drastically cutting back his campaign schedule and laying off a third of his staff. to all the world that sounds like newt gingrich is quitting. if you ask the campaign, it's not quitting the campaign, it's a new strategy for sitting the campaign. they can sit out the campaign, come in third or fourth place in the primary and have newt gingrich named the winner at the convention in august. >> look, clearly we're going to have to go on a fierily tight budget to get from here to tampa, but i think we can do it. i intend to be there all the way to tampa. >> all the way through to tampa. >> if you think of the republican presidential race as a marathon, newt gingrich has stopped running in the marathon and decided to drive to the finish line instead. you mean the first one across the finish line wins? okay. i'll meet you there. i don't know why all these suckers are running.

your man gingrich did take second in mississippi and alabama, forcing romney into third place. but mr quoted as saying we needed to win both those states. sadly, you didn't. but is winning this thing now secondary to you to injuring mitt romney? is that the purpose of gingrich? >> no, not entirely. what i said was -- >> not entirely? mr. tyler, you think it is partially, don't you? >> well, i think we're going to do everything at the super pac to keep mitt romney from getting the nomination. i did say we needed to win alabama and mississippi to change the narrative. we will change the narrative moving forward. i predict now the that newt gingrich will arrive in tampa on equal footing with mitt romney and rick santorum and ron paul. and the reason is is none of those people will have the requisite amount of delegates to take the nomination. my guess is after the first ballot which romney will fail, it's a better than even chance that newt gingrich could win a nomination on the second ballot. >> mr. tyler, based on where we are at the moment, romney has said he's got more than a million

mr. gingrich cannot answer this question. think about this over the next few minutes. what is crude oil in the ground made of? the answer is not dinosaurs. >> senator bernie sanders and now newt gringrich doesn't seem to know what gasoline is made of. and since 2007 through his investment firm the owner of the tops company since i consult on his baseball issues, he's kind of my boss. happy bird michael--happy birthday, michael isner. >> happy tortoise day. the minor leader is walking around with not one but two heads. very bizarre for the senator from kentucky. two heads are better than one. and it's the houston livestock rodeo. something has to be known as mutton busting, and it seems to be a game for the sheep, only they call it kid smashing where they run into their friends with a kid on their back. finally we end with a number. say what you will. i think this is elton john's strangest outfit yet. weirder than the donald duck outfit ♪ howling to piano music] >> that's a dog playing the piano. both the original howells and howls and music were written by himself. how

mr. gingrich and mr. santorum are not on the ballot in virginia. in vermont which is immediately contiguous with massachusetts, mitt romney is the projected winner of the republican primary in the green mountain state. obviously, the anticipation for ohio, chris, it is the big story, and what is going to happen there. i am starting to feel like it does not matter what the ultimate result is, but the fact that it is this close is as big of a story as if rick santorum w wins. >> well, there is no major headline in the east coast papers tomorrow, because it is going to be wide open. there is no headline and i have been through races like this where it is not a squeaker, and nothing in the press. look at what happened with poor santorum, because he won the iowa caucuses, and he never got the headline, but days later, and missed the impact. if that thing had been reported in real time what the power might have been. >> well, it was reported that someone won an election by eight votes. i never once reported romney as winning that election, because i unde

mr. gingrich say mr. gingrich says he's staying in the race all the way to the end no matter what. what does that mean for you? >> at some point it becomes irrelevant whether he's in the race. i think this race will become a two-person race. ac reporter: but santorum acknowledges that gingrich has some regional appeal here having lived in the south for 40 years. >> pelley: newt gingrich doesn't think he is irrelevant. it could be do or die tonight for his presidential aspirations, however. jan crawford is in birmingham, alabama. jan? >> well, scott, that's right. this could be gingrich's last stand. if he doesn't win either one of these two states he is going to be under enormous pressure to drop out. he's already looking for new arguments to stay in. in alabama and mississippi, newt gingrich talks the talk. >> this morning when i had grits i thought it was a very normal thing to do. >> reporter: but he has to show he ca show he can win. for gingrich, that hasn't been easy. of the 26 contests so far gingrich has won just two southern states. south carolina back in january and his h

mrs. gingrich campaigning by himself. he has been an enormously consequential candidate in this process. he came close to derailing mitt romney. i think gingrich created the conditions that santorum rose up from. he has played a major role in this nomination fight and played it from a place where no one had any expectation other than he was going to finish in last place, i think the fact he has got this far, won his home state tonight, as chris pointed out, think he will be able to get out of the race with a measure of dignity, if he can strength together whips in the south, i do think it is an imposition of a degree with, you know, a nominee from massachusetts being put, you know, put in place in the republican party when you can't win any of the southern states that are cultural part of the republican party. >> is that the secret there he wins a bunch of the deep south states and throws romney in tampa? >> helps romney put together a coalition for the delegates. kelly o'donnell, go back to her. she is at atlanta, the headquarters of the gingrich campaign. you have got a comment from the

mitt romney is registered in massachusetts, newt gingrich registered in virginia. mr. oted in the town of belmont, outside boss opinion, the romneys own a condo there, but newt gingrich did not go to virginia today where he is registered to vote. did he not go to virginia to presumably vote for himself because that would be impossible. newt gingrich is not on the ballot in virginia, which is where he lives. neither is rick santorum, who was born in virginia and who lived there for years while he was in congress. mitt romney and ron paul are the only two candidates on the ballot in virginia competing for virginia's 46 delegates because neither the gingrich nor santorum camp pains, nor anybody else, were able to connect -- collect enough signatures to qualify to get on the ballot in november and for any virginia yap voter who wants to cast a write-in vote gingrich or santorum or anybody else, the virginia state board of elections put up this warning on their website today. virginia election law does not permit write-in votes for primary elections. and so, not even newt gi

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mr. gingrich keeps saying that he might win, but newt gingrich is not winning.ewt gingrich is losing really badly to rick santorum and he is the reason that rick santorum is losing to mitt romney. he is the reason that no, non-mitt romney candidate can win. newt gingrich is one of the huge stories in politics. we're getting this crazy outsized focus on him, on what this third place guy with no chance is doing. today news he's skipping kansas, who cares? nobody would otherwise care about that except for the fact that mr. gingrich staying in the race is effectively handing the race to mitt romney. just numerically who is not voting for mitt romney, that split in the not romney vote, that is one of the two big stories in this election this year. but the other big story in the race right now? is not who is voting against mitt romney in the republican primaries, but who is voting for mitt romney. how is mitt romney winning the states that he is win something i'm glad you asked because it's fascinating and i can't believe it's not getting more coverage. look at ohio,

gingrich. thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, panelists. thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for being here. mrs. gingrich is want to be rope to greet visitors. tomorrow please go to the polls, get are your friends and relatives go to the polls, work hard for the candidate of your choice. when we get our nominee, please get behind that nominee, whomever that may become an work like your life depended on it, because it does. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. >> 90 delegates are at stake in the alabama and mississippi primaries tomorrow. there will also be caucuses in hawaii and american samoa. live coverage will be here on c- span at 7:00 p.m. eastern with candidate speeches and your phone calls. >> at some point the federal government has to be able to say to a private business that owns critical infrastructure that we all depend on, that an enemy might attack, we have to say to them you have got to meet this standard of defending yourself and defending our country. >> in the year 2010, the estimate is there were 3 billion cyber attacks on private and government computer systems. 3 billion. so this

mr. gingrich scored very high among evangelical voighters. prior to the primary, i had spoken to ralph reed, a g.o.p. insider and self-described evangelical and he said that evangelicals are more forgiving than people give them credit. after all, it's the center of christianity. they don't clop to be perfect, but they like stories of redemption and the former house speaker has been contrite and ahead his case that he is a changed man. what georgians do know about mr. gingrich who was a college professor in suburban atlanta for sometime, is his intellect. he is known as one of the great intellectuals in georgia politics. so this is what -- this is how the former speaker is trying to position himself. he is challenging the president to debates, if he becomes the g.o.p. nominee. listen to this. >> we run a very frugal campaign we couldn't afford one. but i have already promised if the president will agree to seven 3-hour debates in the lincoln/douglas tradition, he can use a teleprompter if he wants to. >> reporter: and according to exit polls,

mr. gingrich scored very high among evangelical voighters.rior to the primary, i had spoken to ralph reed, a g.o.p. insider and self-described evangelical and he said that evangelicals are more forgiving than people give them credit. after all, it's the center of christianity. they don't clop to be perfect, but they like stories of redemption and the former house speaker has been contrite and ahead his case that he is a changed man. what georgians do know about mr. gingrich who was a college professor in suburban atlanta for sometime, is his intellect. he is known as one of the great intellectuals in georgia politics. so this is what -- this is how the former speaker is trying to position himself. he is challenging the president to debates, if he becomes the g.o.p. nominee. listen to this. >> we run a very frugal campaign we couldn't afford one. but i have already promised if the president will agree to seven 3-hour debates in the lincoln/douglas tradition, he can use a teleprompter if he wants to. >> reporter: and according to exit polls, mo

mr. gingrich staying in the race might help you even more since some delegates that mr. gingrich gets are, essentially, delegates that are not going to mr. romney, and more than anything, you need to deny mr. romney the number of delegates he would need to clinch. do you see any logic in that? >> there's a logic up to this point where a lot of those delegates, because they are either unbound or could be committed to somebody else, we could still get those. the flaw in that thinking is when you get to a state like texas, which is going to be winner take all by congressional district. if the conservatives split the vote in each of those congressional districts, it's possible romney can win a bunch of them. if the conservatives and tea party are united behind one candidate, we'll clean up in a state like texas and you'll see big movement in the delegate counts. >> the math makes sense. we don't agree on anything but the tactics you are trying to get to where you want to get, fascinating, nice for you to come here and explain them to us. john brabender, thank you very much. >

mr. gingrich and mr. santorum are not on the ballot in virginia.t which is immediately contiguous with massachusetts, mitt romney is the projected winner of the republican primary in the green mountain state. obviously, the anticipation for ohio, chris, it is the big story, and what is going to happen there. i am starting to feel like it does not matter what the ultimate result is, but the fact that it is this close is as big of a story as if rick santorum w wins. >> well, there is no major headline in the east coast papers tomorrow, because it is going to be wide open. there is no headline and i have been through races like this where it is not a squeaker, and nothing in the press. look at what happened with poor santorum, because he won the iowa caucuses, and he never got the headline, but days later, and missed the impact. if that thing had been reported in real time what the power might have been. >> well, it was reported that someone won an election by eight votes. i never once reported romney as winning that election, because i understand wha

mr. romney at 49% of the vote. ron paul and newt gingrich both distant third and fourth in single digits right now. that's less than half it have vote in but enough to project mr. romney as the winner. we heard mr. romney speaking high pressu. here is rick santorum addressing his supporters in pennsylvania. this is live. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. it is great to be back in pennsylvania. thank you for joining us. let me thank all of you for being here. i know they're not going to be hearing me but i feel so bad, we have about 1000, 1500 people that couldn't get in here. we were just overwhelmed by the response. i feel welcome back home to pennsylvania. thank you very much. first, i want to congratulate governor romney. i gave him call earlier and congratulated him him on winning the state of illinois. i also want to stay i want to thank all the ol fofolks in ill. we're going to win down state. we're going to win central illinois. we're going to win western illinois. we won the area that republicans and conservatives populate we're ha