Rick Santorum urged his supporters to back Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign in a late-night email that ignored that Santorum once calling Romney the “worst Republican in the country” during their bitter contest, theAP reports. “Romney visited Santorum for more than an hour on Friday at the Pittsburgh office of Santorum’s longtime strategist. The session covered many of Santorum’s [...]
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds Rick Santorum and Marco Rubio are the top two choices among Republican voters as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate. Key findings: 18% picked Santorum out of a list of 19 potential running mates for Romney, 17% chose Rubio, 13% chose Chris Christie and 12% chose Mike Huckabee.
Rick Santorum announced Tuesday that he is suspending his presidential campaign, all but bringing to a close the 2012 GOP presidential contest and formally handing the nomination to Mitt Romney. Analysis and reaction: Josh Barro wonders if Mitt will now abruptly tack to the center: Romney has shown an unusual ability to slide seamlessly from one position to the [...]
Rick Klein suggests Rick Santorum should strongly consider leaving the GOP presidential race before the April 24 Pennsylvania primary. “Santorum has now gone from ex-senator who lost his last race in a landslide, to the silver medalist in a chaotic, once-crowded GOP primary. At 53, he’s young enough to have a long future in the party, [...]
Rick Santorum isn’t going to win the Republican presidential nomination, but he “has already accomplished a few important feats that shouldn’t be overlooked as attention begins turning to the general election,” First Read notes. “First, with limited campaign funds and almost no real infrastructure, he ultimately emerged as Mitt Romney’s chief rival.” “Second, even if he doesn’t [...]
Mitt Romney told Fox News that he would not pick Rick Santorum as his running mate because he’s not conservative enough. Said Romney: “Well, that would preclude, of course, Rick Santorum. Because, I mean, look at his record. I find it interesting that he continues to describe himself as the real conservative. This is the guy who [...]
Nate Silver runs through various scenarios. Even in the scenario pictured above, where Santorum runs ten points better than his baseline numbers, he would fall short of a delegate majority: Mr. Santorum’s path to the nomination probably involves generating some real momentum by sweeping just about everything in March — other than perhaps Puerto Rico, Hawaii, and [...]
As the race for the Republican nomination, here are the latest polls: A new Rasmussen survey in Alabama shows a very tight Republican presidential race. Newt Gingrich is barely ahead with 30%, followed by Rick Santorum at 29%, Mitt Romney at 28% and Ron Paul at 7%. A new Public Policy Institute of California poll shows Romney with a [...]
Nate Silver: “Slightly more than half (57 percent) of Mr. Gingrich’s supporters would go to Mr. Santorum. About a quarter (27 percent) would go to Mr. Romney. The remainder (16 percent) would go to Ron Paul. … Mr. Santorum would have carried four states that he actually lost. The first two are the ones Mr. Gingrich [...]
