Newt Gingrich suffered two potentially crippling losses in Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday night in his own backyard.
But after second-place finishes in both states, he vowed to press on anyway.
“We will continue to run a people’s campaign,” Gingrich
told a crowd of about 200 here. “I believe after the primaries are
over, that the so-called front-runner won’t get [to the nomination] and
we’ll be in a whole new conversation.”
But Gingrich’s challenges are likely to become almost impossibly
steep as he failed to clinch wins in two more Southern states, including
Alabama,
which borders his former home state of Georgia that he represented for
over two decades in the House. He is likely to have trouble raising
money and making a convincing case that he can be the conservative
alternative to Romney when it’s Rick Santorum who is repeatedly emerging in that role.
