i don t think he wants to get out. soon it will be time even with a win in weez for rick san tore dwoum think about what he wants to do. and in terms of trying to deny romney 1144 delegates by june 26th in utah in that last primary. i think that i think it like he can be out sooner than gingrich. you heard from senior advisor for santorum there embracing the stop romney from getting to 1144. and this is to top someone else, we said of i m not sure that is terribly attractive or realistic. you know? in years romney won ohio, michigan and illinois by more than double digits. he s way ahead of delegates. tonight he ll approach half
tonight ready to attack romney and santorum. i don t think he wants to get out. soon it will be time even with a win in weez for rick san tore dwoum think about what he wants to do. and in terms of trying to deny romney 1144 delegates by june 26th in utah in that last primary. i think that i think it like he can be out sooner than gingrich. you heard from senior advisor for santorum there embracing the stop romney from getting to 1144. and this is to top someone else, we said of i m not sure that is terribly attractive or realistic. you know? in years romney won ohio, michigan and illinois by more than double digits.
goring to rally behind. president obama said president for three years so comparing his experience of a businessman to experience of the president of the united states just isn t going to work. i think his performance tonight, his accomplishment is strong and sets him up well. on map 3 i agree with carl rove. and you know the fact is that romney did well even in the northern part of illinois. and going up against wisconsin. it suggests that perhaps that bodes well for wisconsin. it s a diverse state and a very big win and decisive. narrative is that he had degree gits he was losing now and had a big win in wisconsin and other key states around the corner on the calendar. i think you saw gingrich
illinois primary. romney defeated rick santorum in the land of lynn come. and ron paul came in third and gingrich, fourth. romney will add to his already-imposing lead in the race. we want to get perspective from president obama s side of the campaign. earlier this evening i talked with senior advisor david axelrod and asked him to characterize the win here. it means that he got a return on his investment. you know he has spent santorum seven to one here and having lived here during these couple weeks i think k.attest to the commercials attacking santorum. so he s glammed out a victory here. and i m not sure it s enough to end the race. i m not the referee of the republican primaries but i suspect they ll go ton owe louisiana and yield a different result there and we ll be having this
with the big picture, mike, first, to you. well, i think we saw good evidence of what i think the fatal flaw of the santorum campaign s you know, like a team that wins two-thirds of home games but lose as way games. if you get rick santorum out of the state he loses and his campaign is unfortunately for him, focused on votes he has. and this not a freedom. he doesn t win. he s got knot going to change this delegate dynamic piling up in romney s favor and has now without winning the narrative of a can t win primaries anymore. bottom line is the beginning of the end of santorum as a realistic candidate for competition. and joe, do you agree? i think it was a big night for romney and a disappointing night for santorum. i agree he had to break romney in illinois and important for