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Newt Gingrich reiterated his claim that he would contest the GOP nomination all the way to the convention, and blasted front-runner Mitt Romney as "Obama lite" while campaigning Friday in Las Vegas.

"It isn’t good enough for the Republican Party to nominate 'Obama lite,' " Gingrich said. "Now, let me tell you what the difference is. If you’re a genuine conservative, first of all you don’t say that you don’t care about the poor. If you’re a genuine conservative, you believe that we are endowed by our creator with certain unalienable rights, among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

Gingrich has been hammering Romney for comments he made earlier this week suggesting that he was not concerned about poor Americans because they had a social safety net. Romney later said his comments were taken out of context.

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