Santorum suspends presidential campaign

Published time: April 10, 2012 18:29
Edited time: April 10, 2012 22:45
Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum announces he will be suspending his campaign during a press conference at the Gettysburg Hotel on April 10, 2012 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania (AFP Photo / Jeff Swensen)

Rick Santorum, the one-time Republican Party frontrunner in the 2012 presidential election, has officially suspended his campaign.

Santorum addressed a crowd Tuesday afternoon from Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, where he formally announced that he would be retiring his quest to seek the GOP’s nomination this election year. He had announced that he would be seeking the Republican Party’s nod last June.

“We made a decision over the weekend that, this presidential race is over for me and we will suspend our campaign effective today,” Santorum told an audience at around 2:30 p.m. local time Tuesday afternoon.

This past February, polling data from RealClearPolitics had put Santorum in the lead among Republican Party candidates. In recent weeks, however, the former Pennsylvania senator has slumped in popularity as former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney surged in the polls.

“At a time when we were told over and over again, forget it, you can’t win, we were winning,” explained Santorum, who added that, “this race was as improbable as any race you’d ever see for president.”

Despite suspending his campaign on Tuesday, Santorum insisted “We are not done fighting” and said that he will “continue to fight for those Americans that gave us the air under our wings that were able to let us accomplish those things that no political expert ever would have expected.” Senator Santorum also singled out the issues “of a sluggish economy” and “violent, radical Islam” as problems he feels still plague America.

Santorum did not offer an endorsement for other Republican Party candidate, but did say he would seek to ensure that current US President Barack Obama will not be reelected.

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fine2opine (unregistered) 11.04.2012 19:56

Mr. Hand wrote in #13
This is good news.  Ron Paul is now poised to pick up nore delegates as Texas (his home state) and likely California as well as other states.   Dude, I would give my left n&t if it would mean RP would be sworn in, but history has proven repeatedly (Florida, Ohio) that what the people want is of no relevance to the global elite.  We are so much fodder to be scraped from their shoes.  I honestly believe those souless devils care more for thier dogs than they do for the average american.  The plan is for Romeny to be defeated.  The conservative right controls the country.  As evidenced a hundred times over, there is no difference or change between Obama and Bush.  They have the same paymasters.  That being said, if the 'alleged' oppositon to the republicans are democrats, and if that 'democrat' is doing an outstanding job furthering republican ideals, then why would they (the republican elites) even want Romney in office? They would not.  They will continue the rape of the constitution, and do it all under under a democratic banner! Perfect for them.  If Santorum wasn't such a d*mb-sh%t, (calling Obama a ni**er on television) they would have prefered Rick to take the repub. nod, since he doesn't have an ice-cubes chance defeating Obama, as they know.  They are, if anything, a little worried that Romney might actually win. If that happens then they have to take the brunt of blame for  turning this country into a police state instead of blaming 'the other guys', which we know is just a different side to the same coin. RP? Not a chance of a sliver of a possiblity of an inkling of a last hope, more's the pity.  &nb sp;

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Quebecois 11.04.2012 17:29

...And nothing of value was lost.

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melnickrj 11.04.2012 16:13

just suspend the entire presidential campaign until there is a candidate worthy of being president because the present individuals seeking the office of president are clearly not worthy of the position.

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