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ORLANDO, Fla. Saying he does not want false claims made on his behalf, Newt Gingrich on Friday called on a super PAC that supports him to withdraw commercials it ran in South Carolina criticizing Mitt Romney and his old company, Bain Capital.
The Republican presidential candidate made the call to a crowd of supporters at his new Orlando campaign headquarters, saying there is no way he can legally contact Winning Our Future to make the request directly.
Winning Our Future aired a 29-minute commercial fashioned as a political documentary accusing Romney and Bain of greed and interviewing former employees of companies acquired by Bain who complained that the venture capital firm wreaked economic havoc on their small towns.
Rick Tyler, a spokesman for the PAC, responded that he was "aware of and share the speaker's concerns about accuracy," and promised that a more thorough response would be forthcoming.
The full-length video, 30-second TV versions based on it, and two-minute versions available on the Internet were criticized by Romney and his campaign as inaccurate. Independent observers, including The Washington Post, have confirmed inaccuracies.
"It's important why my campaign is different than some other people's campaigns," Gingrich told a crowd of about 150 supporters.
"This morning we found out this new 30-minute film on Gov. Romney and Bain has some factual errors in it, from the same Washington Post fact-checkers," Gingrich said.
"I am calling on this super PAC ... to either edit out every single mistake or to pull the entire film," he said.
