bob mcelwin the ohio congressman and againing rich surrogate you have seen him earlier, he has already endorsed romney and doug wei the senior advisor to ron paul. before i get to you on the hispanic issue i must interrupt myself and ask the former congressman the gingrich supporter we have just received word from the former speaker of the house newt gingrich who is saying, quote, with governor huntsman dropping out we are one step closer to a bold reagan conservative winning the gop nomination. by that i mean mr. gingrich means himself. you want to comment on that? then we will move on to the afore stated question. after 15 years of leadership when newt became the first republican speaker in 40 years the second one in 70 years the
bob mcelwin the ohio congressman and againing rich surrogate you have seen him earlier, he has already endorsed romney and doug wei the senior advisor to ron paul. before i get to you on the hispanic issue i must interrupt myself and ask the former congressman the gingrich supporter we have just received word from the former speaker of the house newt gingrich who is saying, quote, with governor huntsman dropping out we are one step closer to a bold reagan conservative winning the gop nomination. by that i mean mr. gingrich means himself. you want to comment on that? then we will move on to the afore stated question. after 15 years of leadership when newt became the first republican speaker in 40 years the second one in 70 years the
bob mcelwin the ohio congressman and againing rich surrogate you have seen him earlier, he has already endorsed romney and doug wei the senior advisor to ron paul. before i get to you on the hispanic issue i must interrupt myself and ask the former congressman the gingrich supporter we have just received word from the former speaker of the house newt gingrich who is saying, quote, with governor huntsman dropping out we are one step closer to a bold reagan conservative winning the gop nomination. by that i mean mr. gingrich means himself. you want to comment on that? then we will move on to the afore stated question. after 15 years of leadership when newt became the first republican speaker in 40 years the second one in 70 years the
november, and now you re the most electable of the bunch. i think the opinion you heard is probably the real opinion that he holds. jon huntsman was the person who embodied the characteristic to reach the people. he speaks to the sensibilities. he s a young guy. four years from now folks will be having a similar conversation. rick santorum s reaction was in part that moderates are backing moderates at this point. he dismissed in as anything that will get real traction. i want to get your reaction. he says with governor huntsman dropping out, we re one step closer to a bold reagan conservative winning the gop nomination. obviously referring to himself. is he factor anymore?
romney for the establishment moderate vote and romney had a leg up on him. even as that plays, we are hearing from our colleagues inside the convention center here that governor huntsman is expected to arrive in about ten minutes from now. newt gingrich also reacted to huntsman s withdrawal from this race. we ll put on your screen his quote. with governor huntsman dropping out, we are one step closer to a bold reagan conservative winning the gop nomination. so, as we have noted, now, there are just five candidates. that means in tonight s debate, each of the candidates, by the way, the 16th debate of this cycle, there will be five candidates, which means they will get more time to expand on their thoughts tonight. but really in many ways, this is a fight between romney and the social conservative alternative. over this weekend, rick santorum get i getting the endorsement of about 150 evangelical leaders from texas trying to sway the evangelical vote behind a single conservative alter