focus on the nation s solutions. i don t do nearly as well when i focus on my competitors. and so we took the lesson that has worked twice in the last three months. my fundraising has always been difficult because when you re a candidate with bold, new ideas it takes a while. we have 164,000 donors. i think we ll actually be just fine. martha: revelation tph-s there that we ll talk about in a moment. the latest real clear politics average shows gingrich in third place at 18% according to that poll. rick santorum in first place, mitt romney in second, and ron paul in fourth place. we are joined now by former south carolina governor mark sanford, he is a fox news contributor. governor, welcome, good to have you here this morning. pleasure, thank you. martha: it s very interesting. i just love that you sort of get inside the mind of newt gingrich in that first sound byt earnings that wyte we played. he decided if he goes positive
they ll be in trouble. steve, ari and karen, thank you all so much for joining me tonight. let s just recap what was a big night for rick santorum. he is the apparent winner of all three contests tonight. santorum, the apparent winner in colorado. with mitt romney in second. in minnesota, nbc projecting santorum wins followed by paul and romney in third and gingrich in fourth. in missouri, santorum won 55% of the vote with romney in second place with 25%. let s send you back now to lawrence. he has a look at what else is ahead on the last word. lynn berry, thanks for the update. coming up, if you can t beat them, join them. president obama signs off on super pacs backing his re-election. and later, the contraception coverage mandate by the obama administration. mark scheels joins me, and don t be surprised if he says a few things you might not agree with. and later, we ll be joined by the couple whose case overturned proposition 8 today
for somebody who ran what i think would be looked upon as a some what timid campaign and failed to take the opportunities presented to him by the attacks on him to make a ringing defense not only of himself but the system in which he worked and the way he worked in it. meaning mitt romney. yes. speaker gingrich often mentions ronald reagan and brings him up almost every speech. ronald reagan also tapped into that emotion, that feel that the conservative base wanted at it. do you see the same thing happening on a different scale? a different time? i think they are very different people. very different personality. much of what gingrich showed tonight and regan occasionally showed flashes of it it but not the way gingrich has. gingrich is a guy that is angry a lot of the time. when tried it out in early debate it didn t move. it worked in south carolina. whether it will travel well. whether as it has been suggested tonight if he picks up that theme and pounds away it will carry o
digital equipment in the air as people take pictures. the gingrich campaign made the argument that he doesn t need the money. social media and his innovation and use of technology and social media has helped the gingrich campaign in ways that the romney campaign didn t attempt and santorum because they didn t think they needed it. and santorum didn t attempt because they couldn t afford it and have the horse to do so. gingrich considers himself a innovativor and they are counting on social media to help them out with money. they want to raise more than 10 million inment next 10 days before florida in an attempt to wall off the south before mitt romney. we haven t seen the speaker or callista yet. we ll check in with chris wallace who is down there in dc. thank you, megyn.
week and brought a ground game and credited with what they are calling here, a land slide with one geological metaphor and tsunami if you would like a marine one. the newt gingrich campaign is riding high and they are themselves surprised by the breadth of the victory. we ll be introduced to newt in a moment. as we wait for the introduction to end and winner of thitate to come out. they are talking about his ability to wall off the south from mitt romney and clinchh the nomination on the strength of tonight s victryy. 41-26 percent as they continue to count and 50 percent victory far wider and exceeding the poll overperformance for newt gingrich with a victory. the winner of the first south primary. innocent it amazing. maybe you can turn around.