santorum s exit from the race on wednesday. why are the conservatives in the party falling behind around romney? i think social conservatives and conservative voters are, the exit polling in wisconsin show conservatives and conservative voters are voting for romney, obviously, who i know so well and respect so much are hard nosed and good fighters and they re looking at every possible opportunity before calling it quits, but look, as far as rick santorum s concerned in my opinion in terms of personal advice, he does not want to go to pennsylvania. he s got, at best, a 50% chance to win and those numbers are getting worse every day. the reason why he got started so late in this presidential contest was because he had thattal bat ross that s almost a 20-point loss to case ney pennsylvania. he doesn t want an albatross around his neck by losing to mitt romney. if he leaves now he s got a
3-3. most notably was his victory in wisconsin which was the closest of those three contests. exit polling had romney winning here in wisconsin. the tea party voted, evangelicals and voters who describe themselves as very conservative. he hopes to harness these victories to the april 24th contest coming up. tonight i m asking the good people of pennsylvania, new york, rhode island, delaware, and connecticut to join me. join me in the next step toward that destination of november 6th. when across america, we can know the promise of america has been kept. rick santorum has already moved on to those next rounds of state contests holding his rally last night in his home state of pennsylvania. ladies and gentlemen, if we re going to win this race, we
our exit polling shows in maryland and the district of columbia, that white evangelicals, tea partiers and conservatives are starting to converge and recognize it s going to be mitt romney and he wins in both of those places tonight. what about the brokered convention? what happened to all that hot talk? it does require the other candidates to get enough delegates to make it difficult, if not impossible, for mitt romney to meet the magic number. they just failed to do that. there are going to be surprises down the road. i m sure rick santorum will pick up a couple of states going down the track. it s not going to be enough to get him to the point where the math works for him at the convention. by the time, the party will come together. the debate will be engaged with the president, with the white house, with the chicago campaign, and that contrast between the two sides is going to lead to people converging on mitt romney, but still, it will
was this a big step? i should point out that washington, d.c., maryland and wisconsin is going to be pretty good territory for president obama. we did see conservatives come out in exit polling that they are starting to come together for romney. what does it mean? i think there s a certain coalesing we have seen. in the end the margin between the two has held pretty stable at about 42 to 38. maybe that will grow later on in the evening. this is a state that santorum really wanted to win. that s not a thumping victory. there s still a lot of republicans who aren t sold. karen, here was rick santorum in pennsylvania today after he took the loss. and half the other people until this country have yet to be heard, and we re going to go out and campaign here and across
mitt romney? was this a big step? i should point out that washington, d.c., maryland and wisconsin is going to be pretty good territory for president obama. we did see conservatives come out in exit polling that they are starting to come together for romney. what does it mean? i think there s a certain coalescing we have seen. in the end the margin between the two has held pretty stable at about 42 to 38. maybe that will grow later on in the evening. this is a state that santorum really wanted to win. that s not a thumping victory. there s still a lot of republicans who aren t sold. karen, here was rick santorum in pennsylvania today after he took the loss. and half the other people until this country have yet to