Newt Gingrich One on One

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WOLO) — “After fifteen debates, I am the one person who can debate Obama and be tough enough and clear enough to win the election,” says former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich is traveling South Carolina in hopes of rallying conservative votes. “If all the conservatives vote together, I’ll win,” says Gingrich. After trailing in both Iowa and New Hampshire, three recent polls including one by ABC News put Gingrich and Romney as the two front runners for the top spot in South Carolina’s First in the South Primary. “The future has to be for us to represent a clear alternative to Governor Romney’s Massachusetts moderate positions,” says Gingrich. Negative ads have recently surfaced pitting the two GOP Presidential hopefuls against one another. “I wish they would just disappear, I wish we could change the election law so the money would go directly to the candidates and we could be responsible,” says Gingrich. One ad brings up the fomer House Speaker’s relationship with mortgage giant, Freddie Mac. But Gingrich says it didn’t exactly go down that way. “The advice I gave them, was never lobbying, the only time I spoke to Congress, this was in the New York Times in July of 2008, I said do not give them any money,it’s the opposite of the story the ad tells,” says Gingrich. Gingrich says there is a clear definition for who the Republican nominee needs to be. “Who can debate Barack Obama, who is tough enough to stand up against him and the importance of having a genuine conservative,” says Gingrich. When it comes to campaigning in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich isn’t planning to stop anytime soon. “We are going to campaign all day, everyday, try to criss-cross the state and try to hold town hall meeting after town hall meeting and see if we can’t convince people that I’m the one person tough, clear enough to be able to beat Obama,” says Gingrich. “If Obama gets re-elected it will be a disaster for this country,” says Gingrich.