DES MOINES — Newt Gingrich’s campaign manager says the New Hampshire primary will be a two-horse race between the former House Speaker and rival Mitt Romney.
“It is a choice between a bold conservative in Newt Gingrich … and a timid Massachusetts moderate,” Michael Krull wrote in an e-mail to supporters Tuesday night while Gingrich struggled to hold on in the Iowa caucuses.
Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, is the clear frontrunneramong New Hampshire Republicans, polls show. Gingrich sees an opportunity to become the conservative anti-Romney in the Granite State, since some candidates — including Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann — are planning to skip the New Hampshire primary and go straight to South Carolina.
Krull continued: “It is between a bold conservative leader in Newt Gingrich whose plan to create jobs has been praised by the Wall Street Journal and endorsed by the architect of Ronald Reagan’s economic plan as the best of any candidate. And a timid Massachusetts moderate whose plan has been described in Forbes Magazine as ‘virtually identical to Obama’s failed policy.'”
