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Newt Gingrich on Monday night rebuffed calls to exit the presidential race, even as a new spate of polls found Rick Santorum â€" with whom the former House speaker had been jockeying for position as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney â€" opening a lead in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.

Paired with Santorum's trio of wins in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado last week, along with a fresh call from the National Review, an influential conservative magazine, for Gingrich to clear out of the race, the Georgia Republican faced fresh questions about the viability of his candidacy. But Gingrich told attendees at a Tea Party rally in California that he had been counted out before.

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