Recount Shows Gingrich Won Primary
A recount Tuesday kept alive House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich’s reelection bid. It showed he won a Republican primary last week by 980 votes, the same margin initially reported.
Challenger Herman Clark picked up 17 votes in the recount, but so did Gingrich. He finished with 35,699 votes, or 51%, to Clark’s 34,719 votes, or 49%.
Meanwhile, in Washington, Gingrich’s daughter Kathy Gingrich Lubbers broke with her father and urged the GOP to reject the anti-abortion stance it has embraced since 1980.
“If the Republican Party is to appeal to young people in general, and specifically to women, we must throw off this stranglehold that the anti-choice movement has on the apparatus of the party,” she told a news conference.
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