Mitt Romney won three contests on Tuesday padding his delegate numbers and dealing a blow to Rick Santorum. While Santorum was not on the ballot in DC, the race in Wisconsin was the one to watch and it went easily for Romney early in the evening. Maryland went for Romney as expected.
Report from WTOP:
Mitt Romney tightened his grip on the Republican presidential nomination Tuesday night, sweeping primaries in Wisconsin, Maryland and Washington D.C., with time left over to swap charges with President Barack Obama.
“Four more years?” Romney asked sarcastically of the president as supporters cheered in Milwaukee.
He said Obama was “a little out of touch” after spending four years surrounded by the trappings of power and had presided over near-record job losses as well as increases in poverty, home foreclosures, government debt and gasoline prices. In Washington, Obama said things could be worse _ and he predicted they would be if Romney and the Republicans got their way.
The victories enabled Romney to pad his already-wide delegate lead over Republican rival Rick Santorum, who flashed defiance in the face of pressure to abandon his own candidacy in the name of party unity.
Wisconsin was the marquee contest of the night, the only place of the three on the ballot where Santorum mounted a significant effort. Romney’s victory there marked his fourth in little more than a month in a belt of industrial states that also included Michigan, Ohio, and Illinois.
Complete state-by-state results available on Wednesday.
