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romney built a major lead among republicans and the gop infighting has been nasty and brutal. is he ready to take on president barack obama? and already focussing in on a november matchup and his campaign is depicting mitt romney as an out of touch millionaire. will that strategy pay off. i'm wolf blitzer? i'm wolf blitzer? you're in "the situation room. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we're also learning that george zimmerman, the shooter of trayvon martin, will be speaking publicly within the hour, maybe within the half hour, we are told, he's going to be speaking. we'll ha...

He earned the right and should stay in the race as long as he wants to. >> the calls i guess are based more than anything on the mathematical improbabilities of him winning that the point. it is just almost impossible for him to claim a victory at this point given the way the delegates are allotted at this point. your reaction to that? >> but we also have to remember that the republican national committee set the process up to be a marathon and not a sprint. and so that is exactly what is happening with the proportionality of the votes in a lot of states this is going to be a long and grueling...

National reporter for "the atlantic" molly ball. thank you for joining us. molly, if gingrich says romney is most likely to get the nomination, why is he still hanging around? what's at play in this equation? >> well he gave an interview to the "washington post" today where he talked about wanting to affect the platform. wanting to be a player in the convention in a way that he feels he can sort of have a substantive impact on some of the issues he cares about. it's i guess in keeping with his reputation that he has for being the candidate of ideas and the man with the a zillion ideas about ev...

tornadoes. so far, it still appears no one was killed, which mike rawlings calls a miracle. here's the mayor of forney, texas, moments ago. >> it is difficult to look at the damage to the homes and look around the town and call this a situation where we're blessed, but if you really think about it the fact that everybody that woke up in forney yesterday morning is still alive today in forney, that's a real blessing. zero fatalities. >> as tornadoes go, these were relatively small. but look at what a small tornado can do. these are semi-trailers being tossed around like toys and an em...

Contests in states like illinois and ohio is that it's about the cash, not necessarily greater conviction. have a listen. >> the way governor romney has been able to win states and survive turnout by turning out voters and getting historically low turnout and winning in that fashion by just running an overwhelmingly negative campaign. >> now, if there is a sweep by romney of the three contests today, it does start making the delegate math extremely difficult for rick santorum and his campaign. according to our calculations, it would mean for the remaining delegates yet to be awarded, it would ...