where everyone has been unbelievably nice. mornin . i guess i m helping them save hundreds on car insurance. it probably also doesn t hurt that i m a world-famous advertising icon. cheers! i mean, who wouldn t want a piece of that? geico. ah. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent oh dear. or more on car insurance. bret looking live in colorado now. mitt romney shakes hands. let s take that poll just seconds ago on break. some of the lunged for governor romney. that person escorted out, quickly. as you know, may know that mitt romney now has secret service detail. you can see the guy behind him
this fight, saying he is the conservative and needs to go up against mitt romney, considered the front run dwrer now after wins in florida, nevada and new hampshire. newt gingrich is battling for that conservative mantle as well. tonight, a big night for rick santorum. good evening, welcome to washington. i m bret baier, welcome to this america s election headquarters special. we have nonbinding contests in three states. minnesota, missouri and colorado. it could be the biggest night of the campaign so far for rick santorum. the former pennsylvania senator is the projected winner, as we said in two of the three states tonight. there, you can see in minnesota caucuses, 55%, taking a look at other words there, you re looking at 42% of the vote total so far in their caucuses but take a look at this, mitt romney is second, 25%. that is in missouri. a big win in missouri for rick
was higher than four years ago. colorado is running very, very well there. mitt romney got 61% of the vote in nevada. so you know it s all sour grapes. bottom line is that these contests matter. that is why they have the votes and we ve done very, very well. i think you re going to see our campaign get a shoft energy coming out of this. bret: what is the path from here? you have main caucuses that are ongoing then, you have arizona and michigan. and at the end of the month, then, the big contest. a lot of them in march. what is your path? where do you see other states? well, we have done great here in the mid west. we think we can do well in ohio and michigan. you know, tennessee. this is, we think we can do very, very well in the south. and look at colorado. we re doing really well there. i think we have a message that is going play well across this
santorum. ron paul in third. newt gingrich is not on the ballot in missouri. there are no delegates attached to this so called beauty contest. a swik swing state. a big win for rick santorum. you go on to colorado. the caucuses finishing there, colorado caucuses now, a huge lead for rick santorum. but this is still early. it s really these are county by county results. this would take a while to see results in colorado. only 1% reporting. so it could be a long time before getting a final colorado results. mitt romney poised to do well there, but it s early. let s check on race as cross the country. we have fox team coverage this evening in colorado. we begin with the north star state and a big win for rick santorum there. good evening, mike. good evening, bret. talking with the rick santorum
consultant worked on the michelle bachmann campaign, general and thank you very much. ed let s start with you. your thoughts on this evening? we don t know the results yet in colorado. tremendous victory for santorum who sort of was cheated by the republican party in iowa with a couple weeks down here before getting to the next big primaries. it s a great time for him to help build on his momentum. there is a big battle between he and newt gingrich. i think that this is a big step for him. gingrich isn t out of it at this point in time. it s a good night for rick santorum. he should be congratulated. . bret: mitt romney in minnesota. he could come in third tlchl a fate his campaign chairman tim pawleny was there advocating on his behalf. we don t know the status in colorado. for romney it s not a good night. on the other hand so far he