(NewsCore) - With the Christmas holidays drawing to a close, the candidates for the Republican presidential nomination are getting ready to hit the campaign trail with just eight days to go until the Jan. 3 Iowa caucuses.
With polls in Iowa showing a fluid race, the state will see plenty of candidates up close and personal in the final week. Every candidate with the exception of former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman will be there this week in a last-ditch effort to gather votes ahead of next Tuesday's caucuses.
Recent Iowa polls have shown Texas Rep. Ron Paul and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney vying for the lead with Newt Gingrich not far behind.
Romney will be in both New Hampshire and Iowa Tuesday, spending the early part of the day meeting with Granite State voters in Londonderry and Portsmouth before flying to Iowa to deliver evening remarks in Davenport.
While he has made New Hampshire his firewall state, Romney has tried to compete under the radar in Iowa while carefully managing expectations in the state. On Wednesday, he begins a three-day bus tour of Iowa in an attempt to win the state.
The latest New Hampshire poll released by The Boston Globe over the weekend showed Romney with 39 percent support, ahead of Paul and Gingrich who were tied in second place with 17 percent.
Gingrich -- who spent the holidays in Virginia before flying to visit his wife's family in Wisconsin -- begins a "Jobs and Prosperity" bus tour of Iowa Tuesday which kicks off in Dubuque and will make 11 stops over three days.
The former House Speaker, who recently led in the state but has fallen victim to a barrage of negative attacks from rivals in the last few weeks, currently averages about 15 percent support in recent Iowa polls.
Paul will take Tuesday off before spending the rest of the week stumping in the Hawkeye State.
After spending Christmas in Minnesota, Bachmann returns to western Iowa, where she will hold no less than 10 events Tuesday, starting in Council Bluffs and ending in Hamlin. Bachmann is trying to achieve her goal of visiting each of Iowa's 99 counties by caucus day.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry also returns to Iowa Tuesday, making stops in the western part of the state, including Council Bluffs, Clarinda, Creston and Osceola. His campaign schedule says he will remain in the state throughout the week.
Rick Santorum, the only candidate to have visited all of Iowa's 99 counties, was already back on the trail Monday with a press availability following a pheasant hunt in Adel, Iowa. He currently places sixth in Iowa polls behind Perry and Bachmann.
After spending the holidays in Salt Lake City, Huntsman continues to ignore Iowa and will instead return to New Hampshire, where he has staked his candidacy, later in the week ahead of its Jan. 10 primary.
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