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Newt Gingrich dismisses attacks from Mitt Romney as ‘baloney’

By Michael Levenson

 |  Globe Staff  

  January 23, 2012

Newt Gingrich, holding his first event in Florida since he won the South Carolina primary and came under a blistering assault from Mitt Romney, dismissed his rival’s attacks today as the acts of a desperate candidate. “It’s such baloney,” Gingrich told a modestly sized crowd of several hundred voters in a plaza outside The River Church. “It used to be pious baloney. But now it’s just desperate baloney... Pretty soon, he’ll be able to work in a delicatessen.”

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