mississippi, rick santorum has been declared the winner tonight in the mississippi republican primary as well in terms of a vote that s in mississippi, 99% of the mississippi vote in. rick santorum projected to win with 33% of the vote. this has most of all, i think this is important to say, because i don t think it s the way it s being headlined right now, but this is most of all a bad night for newt gingrich. let s be honest. it has been a great night for rick santorum, but it s mostly been a bad night for newt gingrich. and as a courtesy to the winner tonight, i want you to hear first tonight from rick santorum, because he did win, addressing his supporters in lafayette, louisiana. this us just a short time ago. we did it again. i just want to say, first, to the people of alabama, you made a great difference tonight. thank you very, very much for your support. we will compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to
i just want to say first to the people of alabama, you made a great difference tonight, thank you very, very much for your support. we ll compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate conservative to go up against barack obama and take him on every issue. now as good a night as this was for rick santorum, it has been that bad a night for newt gingrich. newt gingrich, essentially staked his entire campaign at this point on a southern strategy and he talked about it openly. this was all the whole idea for him staying in the race, the whole justification was his ability to get the vote in southern states. he lost in alabama and he s trailing rick santorum by more than 30,000 votes. and he lost to risk nz mississippi. he s not losing to mitt romney and mitt romney s money which have been mr. gingrich s e
of the mississippi vote in. rick santorum projected to win with 33% of the vote. this has most of all, i think this is important to say, because i don t think it s the way it s being headlined right now, but this is most of all a bad night for newt gingrich. let s be honest. it has been a great night for rick santorum, but it s mostly been a bad night for newt gingrich. and as a courtesy to the winner tonight, i want you to hear first tonight from rick santorum, because he did win, addressing his supporters in lafayette, louisiana. this us just a short time ago. we did it again. i just want to say, first, to the people of alabama, you made a great difference tonight. thank you very, very much for your support. we will compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate a conservative to go up against barack
mississippi and alabama. the latest results that we have from alabama and mississippi right now, in mississippi, nbc is declaring the race there to be too close to call. also a three-way race, 6% in with the vote in in mississippi, mitt romney and rick santorum 32%, newt gingrich at 29%. ron paul, fourth place with 6% of the vote. on to alabama, nbc news is declaring the alabama primary at this point too close to call. right now with only 1% of the vote in in alabama, rick santorum with 33%, mitt romney 32%, newt gingrich 27%, ron paul in fourth place with 6%. both of these races in alabama and mississippi not only too close to call but described as three-way races at this point. we re watching the numbers very closely as they come in, don t extrapolate too much from the very small percent of the vote that is in now. take those nbc characterizations of the race seriously but basically we ll watch throughout the night as the numbers come in. whether or not we are talking about
this is important to say. this is, most of all, a bad night for newt gingrich. let s be honest. its within a great night for risks but mostly, a bad night for newt gingrich. i want you to hear from rick santorum addressing his supporters in lafayette, louisiana, a short time ago. we did it again! i just want to say first to the people of alabama, you made a great difference tonight, thank you very, very much for your support. we ll compete everywhere. the time is now for conservatives to pull together. the time is now to make sure, to make sure that we have the best chance to win this election and the best chance to win this election is to nominate conservative to go up against barack obama and take him on every issue. now as good a night as this was for rick santorum, it has been that bad a night for newt gingrich. newt gingrich, essentially staked his entire campaign at this point on a southern strategy and he talked about it openly. this was all the whole idea for