Rick Santorum
Rick Santorum announced on April 10, 2012, that he was suspending his presidential campaign, all but bringing to a close the 2012 GOP presidential contest and effectively handing the nomination to Mitt Romney.
“We made a decision over the weekend that, while this presidential race for us is over — for me — and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting,” Santorum said at a campaign event in Gettysburg, Pa., the site of the historic and pivotal Civil War battle.
The former Pennsylvania senator had been Romney’s top opponent, but he suffered a trio of defeats in early April in Wisconsin, Maryland and the District of Columbia, and his daughter, Bella, had been hospitalized for a second time during the campaign due to complications from a rare genetic disorder.
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(Mary Altaffer / Associated Press)
WASHINGTON — Mitt Romney is set to clinch the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night with a win in the Texas primary, a triumph of endurance for a candidate who came up short four years ago and had to fight hard this year as voters flirted with a carousel of GOP rivals.
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(Mary Altaffer / Associated Press)
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Mitt Romney to officially clinch Republican nomination Tuesday
(Mary Altaffer / AP)
With the Texas primary, Mitt Romney is poised to secure the 1,144 delegates required to clinch the presidential nomination.
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