and the two frontrunners in a bitter duel with a lot to prove and a lot to lose. tonight mitt romney s toughest test since rick santorum s surge. if you want a fiscal conservative, you can t vote for rick santorum because he s not. does the word hypocrisy come to mind? it s a two-state showdown with one frontrunner trying to avoid an embarrassing defeat. governor romney is discovering you cannot take your home state for granted. will romney prove his staying power or will he suffer a crippling setback in michigan or arizona? it s america s choice. santorum climbed his way to the top. now he wants to win a valuable prize. the state where romney was born and raised. it s laughable that governor romney suggests that i am not a conservative. romney is waging a fierce battle, in two states that should have been shoes in. senator santorum hasn t been as carefully viewed by the american public as have the others. the two leaders struggling to erase voters do
for the years that i have been involved in public life. santorum also knocked the national media for what he says tearing down the candidates. shep? shepard: santorum now leading in michigan. that s mitt romney s home state. it looks as if mitt romney is ready to fire back. he is trying. we got word from the romney camp today that he is going to unveil a new tax plan this week. but just one week before the primaries in both arizona and michigan, romney attempted to warn g.o.p. voters from where the polls say they are headed. senator santorum hasn t been as carefully viewed by the american public as the others. rick santorum is now being seen for the first time in many homes. and his background and mine are very different. and new figures out today show santorum had his best month ever in fund raising in january and from what they are saying, shep, february could be even better. alicia acuna live in phoenix tonight.
no you do i will defend everything i say, because it comes from here. romney has been unable to defend things he said on conservative hits. our embed with the are romney campaign got the scoop that donald trump is doing robocalls for the romney campaign in michigan, listened to the recording, trump said i m tired of rick santorum pretending he is some type of outsider. finally, all right emerging breaux maps between ron paul and mitt romney provide backup for romney again tonight? romney and his super pac are outspending santorum 2-1 in minnesota, note number shrinks if you look at advertising this week but an ad that romney s not running against santorum that s getting some attention this morning. is this dude serious? fiscal conservative? really? it is an a that sounds an awful lot like this one. senator santorum hasn t been as carefully viewed by the american public as have the
welcome back to politics nation. willard mitt romney is at the crossroads tonight. a brand new nbc news poll shows he s feeling the heat in his home state of michigan. where he s leading rick santorum by just two points. the stakes couldn t be higher. and santorum s ready to pounce, which is why they have been swiping at each other on the campaign trail. here s a guy that s there s a guy that s from outside of washington who was not a senator or congressman. not because he didn t try or want, but he never got elected. senator santorum hasn t been as carefully viewed by the american public. i think a tea party would find it interesting that rick
look at conservatives, romney and santorum on economic issues, i don t see that much of a difference. where santorum can make his park is the social issues, a risky strategy for him should he make it to the general. where he is now, he is talking to a part of that electorate that wants to hear it not hear it from santorum. interesting, anne, clear the romney campaign would like tonight s debate and the next week to be a minireferendum on santorum. here is romney himself yesterday about this idea. senator santorum hasn t been as carefully viewed by the american public as others. we had donald trump for a while and herman cain and rick per rained newt gingrich, all vetted carefully. rick santorum is being seen for the first time. do you think he meant a to mention donald trump in that since donald trump is his number one surrogate? to be talking about that in the car in michigan driving