Mitt Romney's campaign has enlisted members of Congress to shadow Newt Gingrich at his events -- spinning Gingrich's congressional record to reporters -- and irritating the Gingrich campaign.
Utah Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz showed up at Gingrich's tea party rally today in Mount Dora, telling reporters that few members of Congress want to share a ballot with GIngrich.
"He'd drag them down," Chaffetz said. "He really scares me and scares most members."
Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond confronted Chaffetz at the event, but the Huffington Post notes he was back shadowing Gingrich at a Jacksonville event later in the day.
Asked whether he'd deploy his own observers, Gingrich said no: "He doesn't say anything worth rebutting," he said of Romney. "I would send someone if I thought it was a useful exercise."
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