i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. what s the latest on the fight between the front-runners. reporter: wolf, it s pretty clear last night s debate touched off a very personal tone in the race for the gop nomination. that s because there s a lot riding on the next several days. i hope you watched the debate last night. it was kind of fun. reporter: the morning after the debate, mitt romney had a smile on his face, swinging away at rick santorum. i don t know that i ve ever seen a politics explain why he voted against his you re entitled to your opinions, but not entitled to misrepresenting the facts. i took that at aim. romney took aim at his performance. when le tried to justify his vote for the no child left behind law sometimes you take one for the team for the leader, and i made a mistake. politics is a team sport, folks. in front of a big crow, romney knocked that one into the blea bleachers. i wonder what team he was taking it for
on, and your laptop still in its case. how you can speed your way through the security line. new information coming in. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. suddenly a brand-new campaign. rick santorum s stunning sweep has turned the republican race into a real race. he s grabbed some delegates and more importantly he s grabbing the momentum. that s enabling him to raise lots of cash and it s raising a big question for the republicans. now what? let s begin our coverage with our national political correspondent jim acosta. wolf, mitt romney says he s focused on the contest ahead. that s probably a good thing, because the rest of them may count like never before. moments after the secret service housed a man who tried to throw glitter on mitt romney, it looked like a scene from csi. the real post mortem of the night was on romney s caucus collapse. the romney bandwagon just went into the ditch. i want to congratulate all my fellow republicans, particular
picture this, you re walking through the airport checkpoint with your shoes on and your belt on, and your laptop still in its case. how you can speed your way through the security line. new information coming in. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. suddenly a brand-new campaign. rick santorum s stunning sweep has turned the republican race into a real race. he s grabbed some delegates and more importantly he s grabbing the momentum. that s enabling him to raise lots of cash and it s raising a big question for the republicans. now what? let s begin our coverage with our national political correspondent jim acosta. wolf, mitt romney says he s focused on the contest ahead. that s probably a good thing, because the rest of them may count like never before. moments after the secret service housed a man who tried to throw glitter on mitt romney, it looked like a scene from csi. the real post mortem of the night was on romney s caucus collapse. the romney bandw
bachmann is still trying to rally support. tonight doing it without the support of two high-ranking members of her team. bachmann s iowa campaign chairman, a man named state senator ken sorenson has jumped ship, going to ron paul s campaign. bachmann says sorenson is a quote sellout and said he was paid to go to the paul campaign. i had a conversation with kent sorenson and in the direct conversation that i had with him, he told me that he was offered money, he was offered a lot of money by the ron paul campaign to go and associate with the ron paul campaign. no one else knows about that conversation other than kent sorenson and myself. and i know what he said to me about that. sorenson says he went to the paul camp simply because ron paul has the best chance of beating mitt romney and president obama in his opinion. in a statement sorenson says quote as for the ridiculous allegations that congresswoman bachmann and her surrogates have made, i was never offered money from
bachmann and john huntsman are in the single digits. bachmann is still trying to rally support. tonight doing it without the support of two high-ranking members of her team. bachmann s iowa campaign chairman, a man named state senator ken sorenson has jumped ship, going to ron paul s campaign. bachmann says sorenson is a quote sellout and said he was paid to go to the paul campaign. i had a conversation with kent sorenson and in the direct conversation that i had with him, he told me that he was offered money, he was offered a lot of money by the ron paul campaign to go and associate with the ron paul campaign. no one else knows about that conversation other than kent sorenson and myself. and i know what he said to me about that. sorenson says he went to the paul camp simply because ron paul has the best chance of beating mitt romney and president obama in his opinion. in a statement sorenson says quote as for the ridiculous allegations that congresswoman bachmann and her