DEVELOPING: Newt Gingrich is laying off a third of his campaing staff and cutting back on his schedule in an effort to retool his strategy to make a last stab at the Republican presidential nomination at the convention, Fox News confirms.
The details of the shakeup, first reported by Politico, include the ousting of his campaign manager, part of what one top aide described to Politico as a "big-choice convention" strategy.
That strategy presumably would depend on front-runner Mitt Romney not getting enough delegates to win the nomination during the primaries, creating an opening for Gingrich to make his case to the party at the convention.
But Gingrich has won only two primaries so far, in South Carolina and his home state of Georgia. His Southern strategy essentially was foiled when Rick Santorum picked up a series of other states in the region.
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