MANCHESTER, N.H. — After winning the Iowa caucuses by just eight votes, Republican presidential contender Mitt Romney landed in New Hampshire Wednesday determined to hold onto a double-digit lead only to face new attacks from Newt Gingrich, who is trying to regain momentum by assailing Romney for having “very limited appeal in the conservative party.”
The GOP hopefuls made a beeline to New Hampshire a day after a historically close Iowa vote in which Romney barely beat former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a conservative whose strong finish gave new life to a lagging campaign.
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