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Newt Gingrich said that his uncharacteristically muted tone at Thursday's GOP debate - the last before the pivotal Florida primary - was a response to Mitt Romney's "blatantly dishonest" statements at points throughout the debate.

“I think it’s the most blatantly dishonest performance by a presidential candidate I’ve ever seen,” Gingrich said during an interview with the Washington Post.

Romney turned in one of his most animated performances of the cycle, blasting Gingrich for his rhetoric on immigration and a proposal to build a colony on the moon. But Gingrich said that certain moments - including Romney insisting that he had ! never seen an ad by his campaign critical of Gingrich - were "totally dishonest."

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