Gingrich camp: 'Campaign will continue for months'

ORLANDO, Fla. — No matter the outcome of Florida’s primary election Tuesday, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich vowed to fight on to the party’s convention in August, raising concerns among party leaders that a drawn-out primary fight will leave Republicans bitterly divided heading into the general election fight against President Obama.

“On big philosophical issues, [Mitt Romney] is for all practical purposes a liberal and I am a conservative and that’s what this fight is going to be about all the way to the convention,” Gingrich said Monday, despite polls showing him trailing Romney on the eve of the Florida vote.