this campaign held a news conference on the telephone to talk to reporters about santorum s problems with collecting delegates on super tuesday. he s not on the ballot in three congressional districts in ohio and some of his delegates slates were incomplete and unable to win at least 18 of the 66 delegates in play in ohio on super tuesday. in addition, santorum is not on the ballot at all in virginia, that s 48 delegates that he s uneligible for. the romney campaign said, i quote. wednesday march 7th the day after super tuesday the santorum campaign will be looking at a significant deficit to governor romney and bound delegates and no realistic hopes of closing the gam. romney campaign setting the stage for the defeat in the popular vote, but winning the delegate count and trying to slowly put rick santorum away in the weeks and months ahead, kelly. kelly: carl cameron, thank you for reporting from cincinnati, ohio and you heard carl mention the huckabee
this is the most important state of the first. i know we are hearing a number of conservatives upset on the attacks on business. newt gingrich has been p.m. critical of romney s state capital private equity firm. romney has tried to turn it around and argue as folks like ron paul have those types of criticism of capitalism are nonamerican. newt gingrich today getting ready for the huckabee forum was asked about it and the rules of the forum says you can t mention your rivals by name can t criticize them keep positive. when he took on mitt romney here s what happened. capitalism put at risk. governor romney ran saying he created 100,000 jobs mr. speaker.
already, three republicans have said they re going to do it, santorum, bachmann and newt gingrich, newt sat down with donald trump over on the top floor of trump towers. you can see him right there. sean hannity also in attendance yesterday. here is the former speaker on why he s going to be in the trump debate. donald trump is a great showman, he s also a great businessman. if we re trying to figure out how to create jobs, one of the differences between my party and the other party is we actually go to people who know how to create jobs to figure out how to create jobs and so when i was asked whether or not i d be willing to be in that kind of debate, i automatically said yes. i think that we have to be open to new ways of doing things and new ways of approaching things. he s talking about the lincoln douglas debates and he did that with herman cain. when herman cain was beginning to dive and the huckabee forum, newt gingrich doesn t back off
about jobs, the debt, entitlement debt. i want to clarify something we heard earlier that governor romney and senator santorum had not called each other, saying there was nothing to talk about. but now we are told, they will speak tomorrow morning by phone and that s what they always do and they will plan to do that tomorrow as well. governor romney nrecent weeks has been a little more forthcoming about his own failings, copping to having made mistakes on the campaign trail. tonight, we heard that, saying, i have listened and learned and hopefully become a better candidate because of it. referencing a discussion on the huckabee forum, meeting a man with david macarthur, who asked what he would do for veterans of this country, who suffered injuries like his son who, suffered a traumatic brain injury. and it was quite a moment. romney referencing that again, going on to say that we ll get this economy back on track when we get government out of the way, asking folks to imagine what would