Of all the losing Republican campaigns for the party’s nomination, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Rick Santorum are locked in a fierce fight to be first among that group.

The Washington Examiner‘s Haley Peterson reports that “within minutes of the Florida polls closing, Santorum’s campaign released an ad online attacking Gingrich and asked supporters for money to get the ad ‘on TV around the country and continue to show that there is only one true conservative in the race that can stop moderate Mitt Romney and liberal Barack Obama — and that’s Rick Santorum.’”