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Newt Gingrich vows to fight to convention, but Nevada campaigning fell short

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 05, 2012

Newt Gingrich vows to fight for the Republican presidential nomination all the way to his party’s national convention in August. On the stump, he also ticks off the things he would do in the first hours after being sworn in as president next January, first among them abolishing all White House policy “czars” and moving the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Yet when it comes to actually working for the job, Gingrich fell woefully short in Nevada.

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