Newt yesterday: Negative campaigns ‘totally wrong’

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“You have a chance tonight to send a signal to America that the consultant driven viciously negative campaigns are totally wrong for this year when America is in these kinds of problems.” said Gingrich to a rally of supporters shortly before last night’s Iowa caucuses, “You can do that by refusing to vote for anyone who has run negative ads and you can insist to vote for someone who has been positive.”

Gingrich bragged that he had run a “relentlessly positive campaign,” in spite of the negative ads run against him by his opponents.

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