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Gingrich Ready to Move On to South Carolina

 

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich wants to put New Hampshire in the rear view mirror.

His followers are already looking forward to South Carolina.

Gingrich supporter Warren Kindler from Epping isn’t surprised that Gingrich didn’t fare well in New Hampshire. 

Kindler: Mitt’s had a long time to campaign in New Hampshire he’s very well known, he’s fairly well liked he’s a neighboring ex-governor, former governor

But for Kindler, and for many of Gingrich’s stalwarts, the real fight begins in South Carolina, where a pro-Gingrich  group has bought $3.2 million worth of negative ads.

Kindler: This is a warm-up, and Newt is warming up, and he didn’t want to but they forced him to take his gloves off and I don’t think they’re really gonna like the way he plays now.

Gingrich ended the night in a near tie for fourth place with Rick Santorum.

 

Sam Evans-Brown has been working for New Hampshire Public Radio since 2010, when he began as a freelancer. He shifted gears in 2016 and began producing Outside/In, a podcast and radio show about “the natural world and how we use it.” His work has won him several awards, including two regional Edward R. Murrow awards, one national Murrow, and the Overseas Press Club of America's award for best environmental reporting in any medium. He studied Politics and Spanish at Bates College, and before reporting was variously employed as a Spanish teacher, farmer, bicycle mechanic, ski coach, research assistant, a wilderness trip leader and a technical supporter.

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