He's giving me no choice except to make clear the difference between the two of us because I would have been perfectly happy to have run a totally positive campaign and never mentioned it. He's made that impossible.
Newt Gingrich: “He's giving me no choice except to make clear the difference between the two of us because I would have been perfectly…”
On the recordJanuary 1, 2012
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Gingrich criticizes Mitt Romney for forcing him to shift from a positive campaign to a more negative one.
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