Republican presidential candidate, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich arrives to speak in Duluth, Ga., Tuesday, March 6, 2012. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)THOMAS BEAUMONT,Associated Press
DULUTH, Ga. (AP) – Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is banking on a big win Tuesday in Georgia to keep his fading hopes of winning the nomination alive.
He said rival Mitt Romney, who has raised more money than his rivals, would wither as the nominee.
“Anyone who thinks Romney can outraise Obama, it ain’t going to happen,” Gingrich told the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce in suburban Atlanta on Tuesday. “The only hope we have to beat Obama is to have better ideas and to communicate clearly, to break through his billion-dollar campaign.”
The former House speaker was hoping momentum from an expected win in Georgia, the state he represented in Congress for 20 years, would boost a campaign that has struggled since his lone victory in South Carolina on Jan. 21.