IOWA CITY — Three Republican presidential hopefuls clawing for top-three Iowa caucus finishes assailed Newt Gingrich from the right, during a two-hour, seven-candidate debate Thursday night in staunchly Republican western Iowa.
A contentious question about partial-birth abortion provoked Gingrich, the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, to lash out at opponent Michele Bachmann for “consistently getting her facts wrong,” in one of the most heated moments of the night.
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