Not sure. All I know is that he’s leading, and it’s his home state.
And he still didn’t take the time to get enough to overcome the validation process.
What you fail to see is, Newt didn’t have the money at the critical time he needed to pay people to do the ground work for him. There is so much about this that you are totally ignorant about. (On purpose) It’s not at all, that Newt was just simply incompetent or lacked organization. He simply lacked the funding to pay for such a ridiculous rule.
I suggest you just shut your mouth for about 5 minutes and listen for a change. There are people there who are challenging this for some very obvious legal reasons. Which means, their “Rules” are bogus and are about to be torn apart in the courts.