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Candidate, had the best chance to beat barack obama. i was wrong. today, i am withdrawing as a romney delegate. i am endorsing rick santorum for president of the united states. >> the size of the federal government doubled in his time in office. he voted to raise the debt ceiling five different times without compensating cuts. if you want a fiscal conservative, you cant vote for rick santorum, because he is not. >> bret: well, there are the two front runners in michigan. rick santorum and mitt r...

Serious and egregious one. why are they harking on the risk? there is always a double standard in the media. we live with it, the sun rising in the east. that is going to happen. it doesnt help santorum when he is on this rise. its not a rocket rise, but he is doing really well. ahead of romney in michigan and nationally. his chief supporter to be stumbling on the stupid things. but it isnt a stray issue. the reason it might have any resonance at all is because santorum is known for fairly extre...

They say they are raising a lot of money in the past 20 days. >> yeah. i mean, he could twin nomination. maybe the presidency. still favors romney slightly but only slightly over santorum in the race. people in washington has v to get used to the notion we will likely have a two-man race. i hate to even count out gingrich. but the dynamic of the race is pointing toward romney, santorum showdown. i dont know that newt can get back in the fight despite the money spent on his behalf. super pac. >> ...

He stands for and he never seems willing to take an unpopular stand. santorum for all of his flaws is very willing to take an unpopular stand. that is helping him to some extent. >> bret: from the romney campaign perspective, first, they a lot of money. the campaign and the super pac. number one. number two, they help set up the system where its proportional. if he comes in second in the number of places in the long run you could still get to 1144. and be the nomineele in the end. despite the hi...

Talk, very struck by the shallowness of support for mitt romney. this is a crowd i thought would be pro-alum rock, the local establish in the state capital in ohio. not many were. they were open to santorum. the romney campaign is turned off. turned people in the state, as with dewine who told mike warner my colleague he never met mitt romney. switched to romney and then said id like to get together with governor romney and talk to them a little bit. they went to a staffer and the staffer told h...

Santorum, negative ads. santorum is not as vulnerable as gingrich. therefore, the romney campaign should look inward and better articulate why he should be president of the united states. >> it would be the end of may until you could get to the number, 1144. it would likely go beyond. that the last state for delegates is utah, june 26. >> if santorum remains strong and lets say he wins by a small margin or comes by a close second in michigan, it would suggest a race that will go all the way in t...

President obama backed 25 million for his re-election. ahead of a romney fundraiser in utah, democrats slammed his stewardship of the 2002 olympics as wasteful using comments from romney backer john mccain. >> the economic games hosted and funded by salt lake city which began in corruption and bribery is now turned in to an incredible pork barrel projec project. >> the first olympics after the 9/11 attack. and romney aides fired back at democrats that taxpayers money was 18% of the overall bill ...

And syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. liz, your sense of race as we get ready for the 28th in michigan and arizona? >> it is interesting right now. what polling we had right now shows santorum is actually leading romney in michigan. romney is now on the record saying he is not going to lose michigan. he is not trying to lower expectations there. he is trying to set a bench mark and say i am going to hold this state. and i have to say if i had to guess right now id say he is going to. but...

They say they are raising a lot of money in the past 20 days. >> yeah. i mean, he could twin nomination. maybe the presidency. still favors romney slightly but only slightly over santorum in the race. people in washington has v to get used to the notion we will likely have a two-man race. i hate to even count out gingrich. but the dynamic of the race is pointing toward romney, santorum showdown. i dont know that newt can get back in the fight despite the money spent on his behalf. super pac. >> ...