Santorum Suspends Campaign
In a classy and emotional speech, delivered with the historic town of Gettysburg, PA, as a backdrop, Rick Santorum today announced he was suspending his presidential campaign.
Santorum started his presser with an acknowledgement that the fragile health of his daughter, Bella, prompted him to reassess the status of his campaign and how continuing it would fit with the goals and obligations of his own family. And while he thanked his supporters for their prayers for Bella, and assured them that she was doing better, he said it was time to refocuses his energy and time away from the daily grind of the campaign trail.
While falling short of an outright endorsement of GOP frontrunner Mitt Romney, Santorum vowed to continue fighting to elect a Republican president and to ensure Republican control of Congress. That would include, he said, leaders “who are willing to raise us up instead of trying to provide for us and do for us what we can better do for ourselves.”
Santorum noted that while his improbable, shoestring campaign had won 11 states, the real victories, he said, were won “in a very different way.”
“We were raising issues that, quite frankly, a lot of people didn’t want to have raised,” Santorum said.
Whether that will help or hurt the eventual GOP standard bearer remains to be seen; but there’s little argument that at the very least Santorum’s feisty bid forced Romney in specific, and the GOP as a whole, to ramp up their game and message.
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