Republican U.S. presidential candidate Senator Rick Santorum speaks at the 10th Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit in Altoona, Iowa, in this January 19, 2016, file photo. But this year, Paul Ryan – who had been Romney’s running mate four years ago – took a pass on the race, as did the number two and three finishers in 2012, Rep. Ron Paul and former Speaker Newt Gingrich, respectively.
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‘They simply just acted out of, as one said, a whim, ‘ he said after the ruling.
Mr Santorum won the 2012 Iowa caucuses, but on Monday he could muster just 1% of the vote, beating only Jim Gilmore, who received a dozen votes.
And then, in 2013, Santorum was going to stride into Roger Ailes’ office and demand a big fat raise-on account of his greatly enhanced national profile-to come back to Fox News as a paid contributor.
After suspending his campaign and with the once-bulging Republican field now down to nine vying for the party’s nomination, Santorum threw his weight behind Rubio, whose star is on the rise.
“The best way that I can do what I set out to do when we announced to run for president…”
As for his endorsement for Marco Rubio, Rick Santorum said that he was planning to support a candidate who wants to help struggling Americans and places importance on traditional family units. Both Huckabee and Santorum had appeared at Trump’s veterans fundraiser which he held at the same time as the seventh Republican debate last week. The Rubio campaign says they have not spoken with Santorum.
Ted Cruz’s path to the presidency could be short lived – with statistics revealing his victory in Iowa this week is very similar to the 2008 and 2012 wins of Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, whose presidential campaigns eventually went belly up. Before that, he served two terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, and worked as an attorney.
Rand Paul, the libertarian-minded freshman senator who was once viewed as a formidable presidential contender, is suspending his White House bid.
Santorum’s challenges in the presidential race underscore the uniqueness of the 2016 cycle.
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Republican real estate mogul Donald Trump threw his hat into the presidential ring on June 16, saying he’d be “the greatest jobs president that God ever created”.
