just here but in new hampshire also. john mccain is a great man. someone who has been an honor to serve with. he s served this country frankly more than anybody i ve had a privilege to know. i commend governor romney for getting his endorsement but i m not surprised by it. john is a more moderate member of the republican team and i think he fits in with newt s excuse me. with mitt s view of the world and i you know, i wish him the very best. and, again, i have nothing but respect for john mccain. from someone who did well. we re going to hear from someone who didn t do too well. michele bachmann pulling out of the race after finishing next to last. in august she won the ames poll but that was her peak. she s suspending her campaign which allows her to keep raising
thanks, randi, i m don lemon. already the ground is shifting after a squeaker in the iowa caucus. michele bachmann is pulling out of the race after finishing next to last in her native iowa with just 5% of the vote. the focus shifts to new hampshire after mitt romney just barely beat rick santorum by eight votes in iowa. romney may not have won iowa by much but today his campaign is getting another boost from a man republicans wanted to be president back in 2008. i am really here for one reason and one reason only and that is to make sure that we make mitt romney the next president of the united states of america. my how things can change in just a couple of years. senator john mccain is returning the favor after romney endorsed him in 2008. president barack obama angered republicans by apoirnting a new consumer
white house who went through they went through a wild horserace with hoil clinton hillary clinton and barack obama. remember the 3:00 a.m. call? it didn t work. are you saying that americans don t no, i m not saying that at all. i think americans expect primaries to be tough. and if you look at governors throughout the midwest that have come through tough primaries in 2010 from wisconsin, ohio, chris christie, every one of these republicans came through a very difficult primary and they won in blue states and the fact is that a history shows us that primaries including tough primaries, work for the opposition party. that s just the fact. okay. i want to talk about this. and if we have this video, after rick santorum made his speech, you saw mitt romney. a video of mitt romney s people
newt gingrich said he may be down. he said he s definitely not out. take a listen. i find it amazing that the news media says he s the most electable republican when he can t even break out in his own party and i think he ll do fairly well here. this is one of his three best states. but the fact is that governor romney in the end has a very limited appeal in a conservative party. and by the way, you look at the dollars spent by romney and the dollars spent by santorum, you d praise santorum, too. after all, the negative ads, it looks like he s on a romney bashing spree. after a strong second place in iowa, rick santorum is going to be in brentwood, new hampshire, holding a faith, family, and freedom town hall. now that he has some company, jon huntsman is stomping all
ron paul all had big nights. we come out of iowa a lot stronger. i continue to believe that the right place to focus is on president obama. of course people are going to ask us about the difference on our positions on issues and background and so forth but really if we talk about what the american people want to hear is how we re going to be different than president obama when it comes to getting the economy going, preserving the economy abroad and make sure we rein in the scale of the american government. i think that s the focus of the campaign over the next several months. i lead on polls from those who call themselves conservative. look at a place like new hampshire. well, my record is understood pretty darn well because i came from the state next door. i ve got great support from tea party members, evangelicals. you may recall four years ago that mike huckabee and i were the two conservatives in the race. i ve got conservative credentials but i m going to