Despite his fourth place finish in Tuesday’s Republican Iowa caucuses, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich isn’t ruling out scenarios where he could somehow partner with his competitors to make his way back on top in some capacity.
On Wednesday’s “The Laura Ingraham Show,” host Laura Ingraham asked if he could envision a scenario which he would partner with Iowa second-place finisher and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum.
“Absolutely,” Gingrich responded. “Of course, I mean Rick and I have a 20-year friendship, we are both rebels, we both came into this business as reformers, we both dislike deeply the degree to which the establishment sells out the American people. We both think Washington has to be changed in very fundamental ways, and we have lots of things that fit together.”
Gingrich proposed that if you were to take Santorum’s vote tally and add that to his and/or Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s and Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann’s — who will apparently drop out — then Romney’s political strength is diminished.
“The thing that’s interesting is if you take the votes, you add to that Perry and Bachmann, you begin to see the size of the conservative vote compared to Romney,” Gingrich continued. “You know Ron Paul is a different person and I don’t know how you would characterize his — ideologically, his votes. There is a certain amount of votes that would go to Romney, but they’re also not traditional conservative votes. If you take, you know, Santorum and Perry and Bachmann and Gingrich you get some sense of what a small minority Romney really represents.”
Listen: