Romney widens lead over Gingrich in Florida: Reuters/Ipsos poll
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – White House hopeful Mitt Romney widened his lead over rival Newt Gingrich to 11 percentage points in Florida, according to Reuters/Ipsos online poll results on Saturday, up from 8 points a day earlier, as he cemented his front-runner status in the Republican nomination race.
With just three days remaining before Florida’s Republican primary, Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, led Gingrich, a former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, by 43 percent to 32 percent among likely voters in Florida’s January 31 primary, the online poll said.
Gingrich organization starts to gel in Florida
PETERSBURG, Florida (Reuters) – Newt Gingrich has come a long way. After his stunning victory in South Carolina, the Republican presidential hopeful who was tearing around Iowa two months ago in a rental car with a couple of aides has established himself in Florida with the apparatus worthy of a front-runner.
Gingrich has opened seven Florida offices with two more in the works, hired 14 paid staff and signed up 5,000 volunteers in Florida, 500 of them since his upset of front-runner Mitt Romney in South Carolina’s primary on Saturday.
Gingrich, Romney go head-to-head at Florida debate
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – Rising Republican Newt Gingrich and rival Mitt Romney squared off on Monday at a debate that will help determine which of them has the best shot at winning the pivotal Florida presidential primary on January 31.
Stung by Gingrich’s convincing victory in South Carolina on Saturday, Romney desperately needs a good debate performance to help restore momentum for his campaign.
Romney hits hard at Gingrich before debate
TAMPA, Florida (Reuters) – Rising Republican Newt Gingrich and rival Mitt Romney squared off on Monday at a debate that will help determine which of them has the best shot at winning the pivotal Florida presidential primary on January 31.
Stung by Gingrich’s convincing victory in South Carolina on Saturday, Romney desperately needs a good debate performance to help restore momentum for his campaign.
For Romney, bad news comes in waves
COLUMBIA, South Carolina (Reuters) – For Mitt Romney, a miserable week in South Carolina of dodging questions about his wealth and income taxes got worse on Thursday.
The former Massachusetts governor’s most bitter rival in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, Newt Gingrich, was endorsed by Texas Governor Rick Perry, who ended his bumbling campaign in Charleston.
By George, Romney would not be the richest U.S. president
A furor over his refusal to release his tax records has focused renewed attention on Mitt Romney’s vast personal fortune, which puts him in the top tier of wealthy Americans.
But Romney would not be the richest president in U.S. history if he becomes the Republican presidential nominee and defeats President Barack Obama (net worth: $5 million) in November. He’d be the second richest. And to find a wealthier one, in the long line of the mostly well-to-do men who have held the country’s highest office, you’d have to go way back. Way, way back, in fact — all the way to 1789, when George Washington became the first president.
Republicans lack diplomacy in economy-focused race
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Rick Perry’s comment that Turkey is ruled by “Islamic terrorists” is the latest gaffe by a Republican White House hopeful on foreign policy, which has been a minefield for the candidates vying to oppose President Barack Obama’s re-election this year.
Whether it was former contender Herman Cain’s making fun of “Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan, Newt Gingrich saying Palestinians are an “invented people,” or apocalyptic rhetoric on Iran, the candidates have made a series of inflammatory statements that have drawn fire from allies and major trading partners.
Attacks over Bain seen making Romney stronger
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – He is being maligned as a “vulture” capitalist who enjoyed firing workers – while amassing his own huge fortune – but rivals’ attacks on Mitt Romney’s business record may be one of the best things that ever happened to his presidential campaign.
Charges that Romney’s private equity firm Bain Capital got rich by buying and selling companies are winning the former Massachusetts governor new support from party leaders worried that the onslaught might weaken the front-runner in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Colbert bumps Huntsman in South Carolina
Former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman finished a disappointing third on Tuesday in the presidential primary in New Hampshire, despite focusing his campaign on the state and attending some 150 events there. But things are, arguably, worse for him in South Carolina, where a new poll ahead of the state’s Jan. 21 primary put him behind comedian and late-night talk show host, Stephen Colbert.
The survey, by the Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling, had Colbert in sixth place, with just 5 percent support, in South Carolina’s primary, behind Mitt Romney (27 percent), Newt Gingrich (23 percent), Rick Santorum (18 percent), Ron Paul (8 percent) and Rick Perry (7 percent). But he was ahead of Huntsman’s 4 percent and former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer (1 percent).
Huntsman wouldn’t be the only U.S. president to speak Chinese
Republican presidential hopeful Jon Huntsman’s language skills have been in the spotlight since Saturday, when he said during a presidential candidates’ debate that his rival Mitt Romney does not understand U.S. relations with China — underscoring his point by saying so in Mandarin.
Huntsman is a former U.S. ambassador to China who learned the language as a Mormon missionary in Taiwan in the late 1980s. His campaign says the former governor of Utah also speaks Hokkien, a Chinese dialect used in Taiwan.
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