“My gut tells me right now as I look at it that Gingrich might actually be the stronger candidate.” said Rudy Giuliani on CNN last night, “I think he can make a broader connection than Mitt Romney, as I said, to the — to those Reagan Democrats where you won’t have this barrier of possible elitism that I think Obama could exploit pretty effectively.”

Giuliani compared Gingrich to Reagan, noting that people thought Reagan was “too right wing” to win and had a tendency to “say incendiary things.”