COUNCIL BLUFFS, Iowa—Newt Gingrich is close to reaching the $10 million mark in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to an email the former speaker sent out to supporters Saturday morning. He writes that reaching this amount would be an “incredible achievement” that would dispel the notion that his campaign lacks the resources to compete.
Earlier this week, Gingrich’s spokesman R.C. Hammond, told reporters that the campaign would report an amount similar to what John McCain raised in the same quarter of 2007, which he said was around $9 million. Hitting the $10 million mark would seem to show an uptick in donations over the final fundraising days of the quarter.
As Gingrich sets out to present his closing argument to Iowa voters, the latest NBC News/Marist poll released on Friday placed him in fifth place in Iowa with just 13 percent support—an 18 percent drop from a Dec. 6 CBS News/New York Times poll.
The former speaker is sticking to his pitch for a return to Reagan-era supply-side economics, while continuing to promise he will not stoop to attack ads as his fellow candidates have done. A recent study by research group Kantar Media found that 45 percent of all advertising in Iowa since Dec. 1 was critical of the former speaker.
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