would. gregg: the next stop, gingrich trying prove his victory in south carolina was no fluke at all. chief political correspondent carl cameron is live in tampa, florida. hi, carl. that sound you were playing from this morning and last night really is foretelling what we ll see and what will be a african-americanityic ten days to the 31st florida primary. both coming for a debate tomorrow and everything they say and do will be extremely tactical. in the case of newt gingrich, one of the things he ll try do is lock down the old south, starting with the race in florida by getting conservatives to coalesce behind him with the momentum that he gets from this south carolina victory last night, the fundraising capacity that it should bring and organizational help with new establishment excuse me. with new endorsements, as well as with new organizations. it s a very big deal and his attacks on mr. romney are not going to stop. listen to this from this morning. south carolina began to
does that tell you anything, rand? a lot of people want him to get in. i actually disagree with bob. i think if he s going to do it, he s got to do to now. remember bill clinton when he got in the race, it was this time, it was october, and look, he s got the establishment, our colleague, karl rove, leaning on him hard. now, i think that they think he can win. but i also think a lot of people are leaning on him hard. but it has to do with rick perry, trying to get at rick perry. bill: in 1992 when bill yinton quloint made his call, was the primary calendar as condensed as it is now? no. but he would have the infrastructure and the fundraising capacity of the establishment. they re going to rally behind him and they would do it fast if he would do it. let me say bill clinton had an exploratory committee, and they were working for a number of months before that and he had a national network. but the problem here is what these polls reflect is really an uncertainty about the
really? so they know? they might know, yeah. they know. huckabee has been sending mixed signals for months. only the last few weeks did his would be campaign start putting things together to hit the trail. many of them thing is he not going to run based on the kinds of things he has been saying. if he does, the rivally with romney will get nasty almost immediately. that s something to watch, jon. jon: what about huckabee is he stomping all over ron paul s announcement? there was not doubt about what ron paul was going to do. so because there is with mike huckabee. that s mystery how he takes the spotlight. paul has a very loyal tea party following and strong fundraising capacity. he will be a factor whereas huckabee if he gets in the race he would be a frontrunner from the very beginning. there are other potential contenders indiana governor mitch daniels, john huntsman? well, mitch daniels, particularly, you know, last night his wife sherry gave a big
we they say they will be most advantaged if process is long and expensive because they have the fundraising capacity. governor romney already talked about raising $50 million in the early going. that should be a pretty big hurdle for anybody to overcome that thinks that they can start fast in the iowa and race to the nomination. jon: chris stirewalt, thanks very much. reporter: you bet. jon: and you can get powered up every day with chris power play. go to foxnews.com, click on the politics link there at the top of the page. you ll get your power play and all kinds of political news. jenna: well, a major break in a plot to brow up a federal building in detroit. agent arresting a man who they say was trying to take the building down, but wait until you hear how long the explosive device was sitting in that building undetected. that s next.
south. newt gingrich is in but romney has already moved ahead to missouri looking to this weekend s caucuses. rick santorum is in louisiana which doesn t vote until a week from saturday. hawaii and american samoa are also holding caucuses today it all adds up to 107 delegates up for grabs in all four contests. we have team fox coverage tonight. james rosen is more on our exit polls, first to campaign carl cammeron. i mexico add lot at stake for former speaker tonight. i remember distinctly his campaign calling these two states must wins. and the speaker himself has said that he has to do well in the south in order for his campaign to be considered viable and to restore his momentum and to put some real fundraising capacity back into his campaign. he is just barely in the black. gingrich comes into these alabama and mississippi contests with the polls up until today suggesting virtually a three-way tie. these would be these two states for gingrich to prove that he can expand his win