home state which he won by 60 points over rick santorum, 72-12. bret: joe, quickly do you hear in romney s messaging a specific towards women? he may be dragging behind president obama with him? absolutely. i m not sure we can get there yet. he hasn t, i think started. but this primary has done a lot of damage with independents and a lot of damage to whoever the nominee is with him and he has to do a lot of repair work and the president and obama campaign is going punch at that the whole way here. and. the more that this primary fight goes on, the tougher for romney to repair that damage. he needs to try to do that. he s not going to be able to
and newt continue. there is plenty of time. sorry. the key thing is that we need to be building. we ve had sort of fire bombed each other. and carl is a master at boing this. and he was a master of building state by state organizations. we need to be doing that. karl, ed, joe, thank you very much. thank you. bret: this evening as we told you mitt romney addressed supporters in milwaukee. a portion of the speech was interrupted and we weren t tibl see it. here is the speech. thank you. congress and ryan is a r
points, contrast with romney s home state which he won by 60 points over rick santorum, 72-12. bret: joe, quickly do you hear in romney s messaging a specific towards women? he may be dragging behind president obama with him? absolutely. i m not sure we can get there yet. he hasn t, i think started. but this primary has done a lot of damage with independents and a lot of damage to whoever the nominee is with him and he has to do a lot of repair work and the president and obama campaign is going punch at that the whole way here. and. the more that this primary fight goes on, the tougher for romney to repair that damage. he needs to try to do that.
time soon. bret? bret: okay, molly, thank you. let s get analysis from our team of experts. karl rove, joe trippi gentlemen, thank you for being here, joe, rick santorum tonight says he s continuing on and fighting for pennsylvania. what about tonight? and his speech? well, look. it s a very strong night for mitt romney. i think santorum is asking for it to hold up in his own state in pennsylvania. i when you see this race get like this, it could be his down fall there. romney could maybe beat him in pennsylvania. that is not the way he d want to end this thing. it will come to an end if he gets beaten the way he s setting this race up now. santorum s speech he reverenced 1976 and a
struck you?. well, same thing among very conservative voters who have been strongly for santorum. tonight romney won them and maryland and wisconsin. and i agree with both joe and ed. romney needs a win with 40% of the delegates in order to get to the magic number. rick santorum has it tonight with 74% of the delegates went up for grabs in order to win. abm coalition, anyone but mitt let s assume ron paul, rick santorum and newt gingrich throw together they need to win 58% of the delegates left up for grabs between now and then that. is not going to happen. by the end of the month with new york, connecticut, rhode island and delaware voting i won t be surprised to see romney s lead extended to close to 600. joe you worked with a lot