With Polls on His Side in Florida, Romney Stays on the Attack Mitt Romney campaigned in Jacksonville, Fla., on Monday. Mitt Romney continued to pummel Newt Gingrich on Monday, a day before the primary in Florida, even as his rivals began shifting their focus to later contests, with polls showing Mr. Romney with a commanding lead in the state. Mr. Romney rallied with supporters in Jacksonville on Monday morning, the first of three events as he sought to bounce back from his loss in South Carolina with a convincing victory over Mr. Gingrich in Florida. A Quinnipiac poll released Monday morning showed Mr. Romney, the former governor of Massachusetts, with a 14-point lead over Mr. Gingrich, the former speaker of the House. The survey of likely Republican voters gives Mr. Romney 43 percent and Mr. Gingrich 29 percent. Mr. Romney's campaign is not letting up. An e-mail to reporters early Monday morning was titled "An Overdose of Grandiose" and mocked Mr. Gingrich's statements about himself. Speaking to a large morning crowd, Mr. Romney began his critique of Mr. Gingrich after only 30 seconds. "I think the real reason he hasn't done so well connecting with the people of Florida is that people actually saw him in those debates, they listened to his background and his experience," Mr. Romney said of Mr. Gingrich. They learned, for instance, that he was paid $1.6 million to be a lobbyist for Freddie Mac, and they said that's not what we want in the White House. When someone in the crowd yelled out that Mr. Gingrich should be sent to the moon, a reference to Mr. Gingrich's proposal to build a moon base in eight years, Mr. Romney had a quick reply ready. "The idea of the moon as the 51st state is not really high on my mind," Mr. Romney said. The size of Mr. Romney's lead in the polls appears to be having an effect. After campaigning in Florida for nearly a week, Rick Santorum announced Sunday that he would begin campaigning in the Midwest after going home to be with his 3-year-old daughter, who was seriously ill. Ron Paul campaigned almost not at all in Florida, spending his time in Nevada, Maine and Colorado. And Mr. Gingrich, who has seen his large lead in Florida evaporate, vowed over the weekend to mount a "straight-out contest for the next four or five months." Mr. Gingrich is holding several rallies across Florida on Monday as he seeks to counter Mr. Romney with appeals to the state's Tea Party and evangelical voters. Mr. Gingrich spent much of Sunday promoting the endorsement late Saturday by Herman Cain, a former rival for the nomination and the former chief executive of Godfather's Pizza. At his rally in Jacksonville on Monday morning, Mr. Gingrich sounded defiant, saying that he would not stop campaigning any time soon, regardless of what happens in a single state. "The idea that the conservative movement is going to roll over and give up - it's not going to happen," he said to the small but enthusiastic crowd. He added, "Why would anybody in the establishment think that a Massachusetts moderate, which is a liberal by Republican standards ...why would they think that he would be able to debate Barack Obama?" Mr. Gingrich appeared Monday morning with Michael Reagan, one of Ronald Reagan's sons. Mr. Gingrich said the endorsement from the younger Mr. Reagan should settle any questions about who carries the mantle of the former president. Mr. Reagan said he had decided to back Mr. Gingrich because of the work that Mr. Gingrich did with his father during the 1980s and "90s. "He has done more to elect Republicans to office in this country than any other person truly on the planet that I know of," Mr. Reagan said of Mr. Gingrich. And Mr. Reagan cast the choice facing Florida voters as a similar kind of choice that faced voters when his father was starting his national political career. "That is the battle we are having today, between the Rockefeller Republicans and a true Reagan conservative Republican," Mr. Reagan said.