Gingrich and Callista appear at Stoney's Feb. 3 (Evan Vucci/AP)
LAS VEGAS, Nev.?Against the backdrop of a mechanical bull, cowboy garb and guitars lining the walls, Newt Gingrich sounded very serious on the stump Friday as he implored supporters to help him defeat presumed frontrunner Mitt Romney in Saturday's Nevada caucuses.
"We need your help tomorrow in the caucus and we're very grateful that you're here," the former House Speaker told an audience gathered at Stoney's Rockin' Country bar for an event billed as a "grassroots rally." He later directed the crowd to "go home and Facebook, YouTube, tweet, whatever? speak up for a people's campaign."
Gingrich, who appeared with wife Callista, spent much of his 30-minute speech here deriding Romney, doubling-down on recent efforts to paint the former Massachusetts governor as too moderate for the Republican party. "It isn't good enough for the Republican Party to nominate 'Obama-lite.'?I don't believe the Republican party wants a George Soros-approved candidate," Gingrich said, referencing a new ad he released Friday highlighting a recent interview in which the wealthy Obama donor said he would be comfortable with a Romney presidency.
And Gingrich lobbed some new attacks, labeling Romney a "little food stamp" supporter (in the mold of "big food stamp" president Barack Obama) and renaming ?his 15 percent flat tax proposal the "Mitt Romney flat tax" because that's Romney's recently revealed tax rate.
Gingrich also didn't fail to leave out comments Romney recently made saying he isn't concerned about the "very poor" (on which Romney later backtracked, saying the comments were in the context of prioritizing the middle class economy when sufficient safety nets were in place). Gingrich repeated the comment to argue that Romney is "against the American ideal." He also accused Romney of misunderstanding the free market.
As the Gingrich campaign makes its final push in Nevada, the candidate continues to cast himself as the representative "of the people," fighting a wealthy Romney machine. (Gingrich, for his part, has received significant backing in the state from billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson.)
Polls continue to show Romney leading Nevada by a wide margin, in part attributable to the heavy Mormon influence in the state.
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