Rick Santorum suspended his presidential campaign yesterday, Wednesday, Feb. 3, throwing his support behind Florida Sen.
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“No one, not even Marco Rubio’s supporters, can name one accomplishment the has in his entire career”, Christie said.
George Pataki, Rick Santorum, and Bobby Jindal appear on stage appear on stage at the first round of the CNN Republican Presidential Debate in Simi Valley, California on September 16, 2015. While the results were not what we had hoped, the experience of running for President was tremendously gratifying and something I won’t soon forget. Jon Parker, his SC director, said Santorum planned a lengthy tour of SC beginning this week ahead of the February 20 primary that follows New Hampshire. After talking to Rubio for more than an hour on Tuesday, Santorum said, he made a decision to back him, calling him the best person to continue the message of fighting ISIS and defending “the central role of the family”.
Toomey also spoke about his differences on the Senate’s 2013 comprehensive immigration reform bill (S. 744), which included more border security and a pathway to citizenship for immigrants already in the U.S. While Rubio co-sponsored and voted for the bill, Toomey voted against it.
Santorum announced on Wednesday that the best thing he could do was end his campaign.
“The electorate is so unpredictable, I wouldn’t make a betting guess for him or against him”, Iowa National Republican committeeman Steve Scheffler said of Santorum.
While saying farewell to his 2016 presidential aspirations, Rick Santorum endorsed Florida Sen. He failed to make the main debate stage at any of the seven Republican debates, and hovered around 1 percent in Iowa polls, according to averages from RealClearPolitics.
He’s the third candidate to drop out since Monday’s Iowa caucuses, joining Kentucky Sen. That’s fundamentally wrong, and today’s endorsement is only further proof that electing Marco Rubio would be a disaster for LGBT Americans. Ted Cruz, real estate mogul Donald Trump, former pediatric neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and Rubio. “Brush fires of liberty were ignited, and those will carry on, as will I”, Paul said.
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Mr. Santorum was one of a wave of deeply conservative contenders who believed that after losing two straight presidential elections behind more moderate nominees, GOP voters would turn to a candidate unflinching in ideology who can excite the party’s base.
