momentum he desperately needs. ladies and gentlemen, i don t stand here to claim to be the conservative alternative to mitt romney, i stand here to be the conservative alternative to barack obama. well, cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington. paul, what do you think, a game changer? reporter: wow. if you don t like the way the race for the republican nomination is going, wait. it keeps changing. mitt romney is still the front-runner but this is a big deal for rick santorum. what is he doing? he s going to be capitalizing and monopolizing, this hat trick of victories. he s down in texas today. that s where he heads. he s got some events. the real reason, he s going to want to raise some money, fundraising immediately off of this. take a listen to what he told soledad o brien on cnn. we re doing very, very well raising money. i think last night we raised about a quarter of a million on line. we re doing well and we feel like going forward we re goin
rick santorum has 34 and ron paul, you see it there, has 20. dozens of syrians are reported dead today in a city under siege from its own government. this is homs, where anti-government activists say mortar fires from unseen attackers is almost constant. one says we cannot count the dead any more. i ll have more on this 11 will have month conflict and the choices facing washington in the west in our next segment moments from now. the white house is and congress are all too eager to support u.s. troops, but at the same time, the u.s. government might be able to further limit their legal rights. for more than 60 years, federal law has essentially barred military service members from suing the u.s. because of medical mass practice because of an injury or death on active duty. but government lawyers are trying to expand that, arguing the u.s. should be protected from malpractice lawsuits involving military families. we re going to dig much deeper into what this could mean for
on, and your laptop still in its case. how you can speed your way through the security line. new information coming in. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. suddenly a brand-new campaign. rick santorum s stunning sweep has turned the republican race into a real race. he s grabbed some delegates and more importantly he s grabbing the momentum. that s enabling him to raise lots of cash and it s raising a big question for the republicans. now what? let s begin our coverage with our national political correspondent jim acosta. wolf, mitt romney says he s focused on the contest ahead. that s probably a good thing, because the rest of them may count like never before. moments after the secret service housed a man who tried to throw glitter on mitt romney, it looked like a scene from csi. the real post mortem of the night was on romney s caucus collapse. the romney bandwagon just went into the ditch. i want to congratulate all my fellow republicans, particular
not over mitt romney. over ron paul! romney s in third! now mind you only 13% of precincts are reporting there still an interesting start to that. then colorado, only 7% reporting, santorum has jumped out to a gigantic lead there 50%, to gingrich s 22, romney 19. don t take those numbers too seriously, they re just getting warmed up there. in another interesting note there, is that there was not a lot of exit polling done by the networks here, so the reason it s taking so long to get the actual counts and call these elections is because they re waiting for the count. now, normally they have the exit polls, etc. in this case they don t. you know who we have here? epic politics. mike joins us for this, our epic political correspondent. michael, i ve got more on the delgado counts there s a lot of interesting things going on. but a week ago if you said rick santorum was going to sweep these three elections they welfare run would have run you out of town. a week ago i said he
process. the susan g. komen foundation gets rid of her. we ll show you tonight. all right. you know we have got elections tonight. there are three of them. and all of the fun, here comes rick santorum out of nowhere. in colorado romney is at 37-27. but gingrich is slip sliding away. and who is winning? all of a sudden rick santorum with a 45-32 lead in that state. you can say that state doesn t exactly send the delegates according to the primary, it s just kind of advice the voters are giving to the people. but without gingrich and it turns out romney loses? that s a really interesting fact. let s go to minnesota. here comes rick santorum from behind. 33% to 24%, he is beating romney, gingrich and paul. rick santorum wins two out of the three states here we go again. another ball game. he went again from it s nearly over to right back in the thick of it. so, well, if romney is now trailing in a couple of polls, what is he going to do? he is going to attack in the bigges