Later on Wednesday, CNN reported Santorum would join Paul in exiting despite the former senator’s declaration he would continue to campaign in SC.
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Santorum, an advocate of Christian conservative values, a tougher foreign policy and creating blue-collar jobs, finished in 11th place in Monday night’s Iowa GOP caucuses with 1 percent of support.
It was a sharp turn from 2012, when the candidate who polls strongly with evangelical voters won the Iowa Caucus.
Rand Paul is dropping out of the 2016 race for president.
The Santorum sources did not say whom Santorum would endorse.
Santorum is one of the most notoriously anti-gay of the Republican Presidential wannabes, claiming repeatedly that homosexuality is a condition that can be cured.
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum’s campaign schedule is on hold, according to the director of his SC campaign.
Santorum announced his plans Wednesday in an interview on Fox News after Bloomberg News quoted an adviser describing the candidate’s decision.
But former Huckabee, Sen.
Santorum was a senator representing Pennsylvania from 1995 to January 2007.
Asked about the new endorsement, Rubio said, “It means a lot”. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., emerging as the favorite of the pro-Israel and interventionist right-wing, who came in third in Iowa. He made a pointed effort to not get dragged down by controversial comments he once made about homosexuality – which included a comparison to bestiality – that helped hamstring his earlier bid.
“It’s been an incredible honor to run a principled campaign for the White House”, Paul said in the statement.
Trump will also be appearing on “On the Record” Wednesday evening. It wasn’t enough: his support stayed mired in the low single digits in the state in 2015, and kept him off the main debate stage in the run-up to the first votes of the primary season.
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Nine candidates now remain in the Republican presidential nominee race – Rubio, Trump, Cruz, former Florida governor Jeb Bush, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, former HP chief Carly Fiorina, top American neurosurgeon Ben Carson, Ohio Governor John Kasich and former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore.
