The calls for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to exit the Republican race for president got more serious on Wednesday, the day after he lost two states in the deep South to former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum. When the Mississippi and Alabama primaries went to the former senator, it struck a major blow to the idea that Gingrich could continue on a “southern strategy,” since he didn’t take two of the most southern states after his Georgia win.
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