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Gingrich Wants to 'Knock Out' the President

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Voter asks how Newt will "bloody Obama's nose."

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After debating in front of a feisty audience Monday night, Newt Gingrich had an oddly violent exchange with a voter in South Carolina Tuesday. The voter mentioned Newt's proposal to challenge President Obama to seven three-hour debates, but wondered how, exactly, the former speaker plans to "bloody Obama's nose." Newt responded, to resounding laughter, "I don't just want to bloody his nose, I want to knock him out."

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