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Newt Gingrich said Thursday that his continued presence in the GOP race was helping keep Mitt Romney from securing the party's presidential nomination because the frontrunner could not focus his efforts on a single candidate.

"I think one of the reasons that Mitt Romney’s been much less effective since Santorum emerged is that he’s had to split his attacks. It’s very hard for him to attack both of us. There’s real danger, from his perspective, that attacking one of us just drives votes to the other, and he still doesn’t get the votes," Gingrich said during an appearance on the Laura Ingraham Show.

Conservative commentators, like Red State's Eric Erickson, began to call for Gingrich's exit from the race after the former House Speaker came up short in the Alabama and Mississippi primaries Tuesday. But Gingrich insisted he still had a path to the nomination.

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