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>> utah senator mike lee posted a video on facebook saying this. >> mr. trump, that i respectfully ask you with all due respect to step aside. step down. >> and former utah governor jon huntsman who is also a former ambassador to china for president obama and a former presidential candidate, retracted his endorsement of donald trump, and he told "the salt lake tribune" in a campaign cycle that has been nothing but a race to the bottom, at such a critical moment for our nation and with so many wh...

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Hes been doing for religious freedom and the military. so he received a very warm reception. >> how big is it? how big is this? how important is this in the gop election? >> well, the reason you saw most of them here today is because 50% of primary vote comes from social conservative voters. >> is it that much? 50%? >> yes. when you look akroz tcross the country, its even higher in some places. when you look at the general election, its still about a third of the vote. >> why then -- why -- you ...

Challenge from matt bevin. he got more primary vote percentagewise than texas senator john con irnish, settinp a race with republican alison lundergran grimes, which will perhaps be one of the most expensive races in history. congressman jack kingston competing. per duridue came out on top las night. kingston did not do well in the atlanta media market. thats going to be the interesting issue for him. tea party when 0 for 3 in the marquee races we were watching. and mike simpson, an ally of spea...

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What do you learn about the candidate? one more race for me to take a look at out west, romney take idaho, where there is a large mormon population. so it was predicted they would turn out for the candidate. but its also where in 2008, ron paul took 23% of the g.o.p. primary vote. >> lets take a look at what rick santorum did today -- or yesterday, to be more accurate. he has not gone home empty handed. take a look at this. he won the state of oklahoma, now 40 delegates at stake, though proporti...

State what do you learn about the candidate? and one more race out west, romney taking idaho where there is a large mormon population. it was predicted they would turn out for the candidate, but in 2008 ron paul took 23% of the gop primary vote. >> lets look at what rick santorum did. yesterday to be more accurate. he won the state of oklahoma and now 40 delegates there divided. rick santorum won 34% to 28%. lets move to tennessee. 55 delegates there and rick santorum 37 to mitt romneys 28%. nor...

With just over 24 hours to go before the florida gop primary vote, temperature and the rhetoric between the two top contenders is rising as are mitt romneys poll numbers. nbcs brian moore joins us from washington with the latest on all of this. brian, good morning. >> reporter: mitt romney is up in the polls and under the skin of newt gingrich. with the all-important florida primary a day away, newt gingrich is asking conservatives to keep his contest with mitt romney alive. >> i believe the rep...