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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich takes part in a TV interview during a campaign event at the Grapevine Restaurant in Spartanburg, S.C., on Jan. 21, 2012.
Michael O’Brian reports on msnbc.com that Newt Gingrich has won the South Carolina Republican primary, capping off a remarkable comeback for his presidential bid that reshapes the trajectory of the battle for the GOP nomination.
Based on early exit polls, NBC News projects Gingrich as the winner of the primary, while former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will finish second.
See more photographic coverage of the South Carolina primary
Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney battled nearly toe-to-toe for last-minute votes in the first-in-the-South primary. NBC's Ron Mott reports.
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Of all the Republicans in America, this, this?! is the best they can pass through their primary process?
A serial adulterer, paid shill for the people who bankrupted pension plans, race baiting egomaniac?
We have become a third world country with comically flawed dictators both dem and repub.
Well, we have been reduced to bottom feeding representation! I cannot believe the 'short sightedness' and short term memory of our voters. Have we forgotten why he left congress?! Christopher Worth started to spell it out, let us not forget MAJOR hypocrisy. While he was make loads of cash he was shutting down government. Yes they are all crooks, but choose your crooks carefully. He is among the worst. WAKE UP AMERICA!!!! He left once, do not bring him back!
2008 all over again. Great job South Carolina- when are you going to learn to stop listening to what candidates say and research what they have done? Newt as the candidate is a gift to the democrats. Yes, he helped get the house back but then Newt was responsible for the most seat losses in 64 years in the very next election. Newt is a divisive person and can not win in the general election. What he can win is a debate but that won't matter as much in the general election because there aren't 16+ debates- there might be 2.
Saying South Carolinians are value voters is like saying President Obama is fiscally responsible. Newt had affairs and lectured on family values at the same time- great morals. Newt, now trying on his second or third religion, says he has found God and been forgiven but expresses no remorse or regret- he justified these affairs because he was too patriotic and working too hard for his country and then even tried to play the victim card in the debate with his "everyone has felt pain" which is true but that is usually not something you hear from the person that CAUSED the pain.
South Carolina has done the democrats proud