On a day when most political watchers would agree Mitt Romney should be celebrating an impressive victory, the winner of a critical primary in the super swing state of Florida has instead ended up explaining his views on the nation's poor.

During an interview Wednesday, Romney said his focus is on the middle class. "I'm not concerned about the very poor," Romney said. "There's a safety net there, and if it needs repair I'll fix it. I'm not concerned about the very rich, they're doing just fine. I'm concerned about the heart of America, the 95% of Americans who are right now struggling."

Romney's comments about not being "concerned about the very poor" triggered a minor media feeding frenzy and ultimately led the former Massachusetts Gov. come to the back of his chartered campaign plane to clarify his comments.

"You've got to take the whole sentence, all right, as opposed to saying, and then change it just a little bit, because then it sounds very different," Romney explained. "I've said throughout the campaign my focus, my concern, my energy is going to be devoted to helping middle income people, all right? We have a safety net for the poor... and if there are holes in it, I will work to repair that. And if there are people that are falling through the cracks I want to fix that." (read more)

President Obama's re-election campaign raised $68 million in the last three months of 2011. Officials from "Obama for America" tell Fox News that 538,000 donors gave to the campaign in the fourth quarter of 2011 and that among those 200,000 were first time donors.

While former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich are undoubtedly spending Tuesday concentrating on the critical Florida GOP Presidential Primary Election, you can be sure the president's fundraising haul caught the attention of both men and their advisors.

Romney leads the GOP pack when it comes to raking in donor cash, announcing in early January that his campaign had raised $24 million in the fourth quarter of 2011. Gingrich campaign officials announced Tuesday, via Twitter, that they had raised "about 10 million" over the same time period.

This means President Obama's fourth quarter haul doubles the combined fundraising of the two GOP frontrunners over the last three months of 2011.

Fox News Chief White House Correspondent Ed Henry contributed to this report. 

ORLANDO, Florida - Newt Gingrich's campaign announced Tuesday it raised $5 million dollars in January on top of the $10 million raised last quarter, however aides would not indicate how much cash the campaign has on hand -- a critical number for determining whether they can make it through the summer as the former speaker has pledged to do.

This weekend the candidate told Bloomberg News that his campaign was down to approximately $600,000 cash on hand and spending money as quickly as they get it. Since then spokesman R.C. Hammond has said the candidate misspoke and the $600,000 was referring to the amount the campaign had entering the South Carolina primary and they have since raised $2.5 million in money bombs.

However, when pressed, Hammond was unwilling to give a figure for how much cash they have right now.

Gingrich dropped by a polling station at First Baptist Church of Windermere for his first stop on primary day, shaking hands with voters and swarmed by cameras. Mitt Romney has taken a double digit lead in polls leading up to Tuesday but Gingrich told reporter he didn't expect to "lose big" here.

"I can tell you now the early vote will all look very good for Romney because it's the absentees where he spent millions of dollars before we get here. But we will see as the evening goes on how it's going to go," he said. (read more)

JACKSONVILLE, Fla - There's a reason George Soros says there's "little difference" between having President Obama and Mitt Romney [1] in the White House [2], Newt Gingrich [3] said Monday, to a small but adoring crowd less than 24 hours before the state primary.

The candidate argued that, as with President Obama, Romney imposed unfair treatment towards religious groups in the implementation of his health care policies as governor. Gingrich has long argued that the Massachusetts health care plan is too similar to the Affordable Care Act for Romney to make a convincing case for his candidacy in the general election. (read more)

The Romney Campaign circulated what it called an “open letter” penned by Bob Dole in which the  former Senate Majority Leader and GOP Presidential Nominee attacks Newt Gingrich.

“I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late,” said Dole. "If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway.” (read more)

MT. DORA, Fl - In a fiery speech before a crowd of tea partiers, Newt Gingrich unloaded on Mitt Romney, accusing his GOP rival of outright hypocrisy for the negative ads now running the Sunshine state.

"You're watching ads paid for with the money taken from the people of Florida by companies like Goldman's Sachs, recycled back into ads to try to stop you from having a choice in this election. That's what this is all about," Gingrich said.

"The question you have to ask yourself is, what level of gall does it take to think that we collectively are so stupid that somebody who owns lots of stock in Fannie and Freddie Mac, somebody who owns lots of stock in Goldman Sachs, who is insistently foreclosing on Floridians, who is surrounded by lobbyists who are already protecting Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, can then build his entire negative campaign in Florida around a series of ads that are just plain false."

Gingrich went on to call the ads "junk," and admitted they are now getting under his skin.

"I am angry. But I think I'm angry and every American should be angry. How can somebody run a campaign this dishonest and think he's going to have any credibility running for president?," Gingrich told reporters after his speech.

"I mean at some level there ought to be a sense of shame for someone being this fundamentally dishonest." (read more)

MIAMI -- Flanked by his squad of powerful Cuban-American supporters, including Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and former Sen. Mel Martinez, presidential aspirant Mitt Romney made an appeal to Hispanic voters in Florida that if elected president, he would take a much more aggressive stance against the Communist regime in Cuba than the current Obama administration.

"If I'm fortunate to become the next president of the United States it is my expectation that Fidel Castro will finally be taken off this planet," Romney said to emphatic applause from the crowd of 500 gathered at the Magic City's landmark building, the Freedom Tower. "I doubt he'll take any time in the sky. He'll find a nether region to be more to his comfort."

Romney also criticized President Obama's "appeasement" of a U.S. trade embargo and travel restrictions that have been opposed by the majority of Cuban-American Republicans. (read more)

Fox News confirms that Jeb Bush plans to "stay neutral" during the Florida GOP primary and will not endorse a candidate before the January 31st election.

This is according to a Jeb Bush insider, who communicated with the former Florida Governor today.