One of Mitt Romney's top surrogates, former New Hampshire Gov. John Sununu, began the process on Friday morning of managing expectations in the event of a Romney loss to Newt Gingrich in Saturday's South Carolina primary, Huffington Post reports.
Sununu predicted that the GOP nomination fight will run through every primary and caucus state, all the way to the summer. “I think you're going to see the same kind of long slog that you saw in ‘76, with [Gerald] Ford and [Ronald] Reagan, that it took the whole thing to win,” Sununu told reporters, according to the news website.
He added, “This is a long slog. … [Romney]’s never suggested one or two or three primaries or caucuses would make the difference. The whole campaign has been designed to go through the long slog."
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