Rick Santorum will apparently end his campaign for the presidency effective today. The announcement will be made this afternoon from Gettysburg, PA.
Report from CBS News:
Rick Santorum is poised to suspend his bid for the presidency on Tuesday, removing the last significant obstacle in Mitt Romney’s now all-but-certain march to the Republican presidential nomination.
Santorum will make the announcement at a press conference in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania shortly, a senior member of his campaign staff told CBS News.
An unapologetic social and fiscal conservative, Santorum spent much of the 2012 campaign cycle as an also-ran, toiling in relative obscurity while a succession of contenders – Donald Trump, Michele Bachmann, Rick Perry, Herman Cain and Newt Gingrich among them – rose to the top of the Republican presidential polls before falling back to earth.
He finally began gaining traction in Iowa shortly before the January 3 caucuses, when social conservatives eager for a candidate to call their own started to coalesce around him. Santorum effectively tied Romney in Iowa before going on to win another ten states and claim the mantle of conservative alternative to the frontrunner.
We’ll have video of Santorum’s announcement once it becomes available. Stay tuned for more updates as this announcement unfolds.
Update
Full video of Santorum’s announcement:
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