Newt Gingrich, who failed to make it onto the ballot in Virginia, is alleging that fraud on the part of one of the singature collectors is to blame, reports CNN: “We hired somebody who turned in false signatures. We turned in 11,100 — we needed 10,000 — 1,500 of them were by one guy who frankly committed fraud,“ Gingrich said to a woman in Algona, Iowa.
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