Former senator Rick Santorum is ending his presidential campaign, according to the Washington Post. Marco RUbio for the Republican nominee on Fox News’ “On The Record”. He failed to get traction in this year’s caucus race after surging at the end of the 2012 Iowa contest to capture a belated victory and then winnig primaries in 10 more states.
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Expressing confidence, Beynon said Santorum would benefit from a donor network that has only grown in the years since his first run.
The news comes after Santorum finished in last place at Monday’s Iowa caucus, earning just one percent of support.
Rogers said, to him, Santorum was a candidate with the right kind of credentials for the time, but there was a “mentality” that Santorum’s “chance” had been in 2008, after he won the Iowa Caucuses.
A Rubio aide asked by NBC to comment on Santorum’s struggle to come up with an accomplishment simply offered a list of examples of legislation Rubio passed and signed into law in recent years, including VA accountability reform and Obamacare bailout.
It is a particularly sharp reverse in fortunes for Santorum, a former senator from Pennsylvania who snatched Iowa from Mitt Romney four years ago but has languished at the back of the pack for months.
“Bernie has announced that for the remainder of the campaign in New Hampshire he will hold more than a dozen rallies and meetings to meet with voters all across the state”, his campaign said.
“We decided that we could be better advocates in supporting someone who shared [our] values and will do better in this race”, Santorum told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News. He never made it to the main stage in any of the Republican debates and had difficulty with maintaining staff and fundraising.
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His retail politics were also no match for the media-centric, playbook-defying campaign of Donald Trump, the brash billionaire who left little room for candidates to win a moment in the spotlight. While Santorum does have “a lot of respect” for Trump, Brabender said, a choice between Trump and Cruz would have been “a very hard endorsement”. “I’ll stand a little bit over here so I’m not photographed with the Trump sign”, Santorum said awkwardly, drawing jeers from the crowd. Mike Huckabee ended his campaign that night, and Rand Paul suspended his campaign Wednesday morning.
