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Republican front-runner Newt Gingrich blasted Michele Bachmann as "factually challenged" on Wednesday after the Minnesota congresswoman said his position on illegal immigration was the equivalent of amnesty.

"Some people are just factually challenged," Gingrich said, according to the Washington Examiner. "It's unfortunate. When I was a teacher I occasionally had a student who couldn't figure out where things were or what things were or what the right date was. When that happens, you feel sorry that they are so factually challenged."

Bachmann has repeatedly criticized Gingrich for suggesting in the Republican foreign policy debate last week in Washington that law-abiding, tax-paying il! legal immigrants who had been in the country for a number of years should be afforded a pathway to legal status. Last Saturday, Bachmann also produced an editorial from eight years ago in which Gingrich endorsed "paths to permanent residence to enable more workers to stay, assimilate and become part of America."

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