Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich trade barbs in Florida [View all]
As new polls showed him opening a double-digit lead heading into Tuesday’s Florida presidential primary, Mitt Romney stepped up his attacks on rival Newt Gingrich here Sunday, saying the former House speaker should “look in the mirror” to discover why he is losing ground among Republican voters.
Gingrich scrambled to blunt the former Massachusetts governor’s momentum, blitzing the Sunday morning news shows and telling reporters that he did not believe the Republican Party would ever choose as its presidential nominee “a pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase moderate from Massachusetts.”
But it was Romney who claimed momentum Sunday as the two leading contenders set off on a final campaign sprint across Florida. An NBC News-Marist poll showed Romney leading Gingrich 42 percent to 27 percent, and a Miami Herald-Tampa Bay Times-El Nuevo poll had Romney with a similar lead, 42 percent to 31 percent.
“The people of Florida have watched the debates and listened to the speaker and listened to the other candidates and said, ‘You know what? Mitt Romney is the guy we’re going to support,’ ” Romney told a rally of more than 2,000 supporters in downtown Naples.
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