us, the presentations that will happen at cpac, nice to have you joining us. first and foremost this is the all star event, rick santorum will make a presentation, mitt romney will make a presentation, newt gingrich will be here making presentation, michele bachmann, sarah palin will wrap-up the entire night. what does it tell you about sort of the role of conservatives in this year s election? well, obviously, this has become an election that in my opinion will be decided by turnout, and whoever gets their base more passionately involved and out there to vote will win this election. the country divided 50-50 now, in terms of philosophical terms, conservatives are the base of the movement and the right, and progressives are the base of the other side and whoever thinks it s more at stake will get more enthusiastic will allow that candidate to win the election. when you look at statistics on turnout, ron and i talked about this yesterday, doesn t that bode badly for you, t
weapons? we know. we know. let s go outfront. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good evening, i m erin burnett and outfront tonight, the single best day of fund raising. that s what the pro santorum super pac red white and blue just told outfront about its cash raising today. the donations pouring in for the candidate who exceeded frankly everybody s expectations last night beating mitt romney in a three-state sweep. santorum met with potential donors in texas today and he s actually headed to california to meet even more potential deep pocketed donors. he s not stopping there. he just sent out another e-mail asking for money. quote reagan got on a roll winning in north carolina and a slew of states after that, the conservative base rallied to him despite all odds. he went all the way to the convention. clearly, rick santorum feeling pretty good. we re doing really well and we feel like going forward, we re going to have the money we need to make the case we want
colorado. with 46% of the vote and santorum in the lead. 901 votes ahead of mitt romney. 31% to 30%. and ron paul in fourth with 13%. a lot to talk about in the hour ahead. we ll check in with santorum headquarters and the other camps as well. we ll hear from the candidate, from rick santorum himself. we ll talk to our panel about how much this changes the landscape and how significant a win for santorum or a close finish to romney in second place would mean for the former senator. let s take a look right now at some of the highlights from the candidate speeches from earlier tonight. conservatism is alive and well in missouri and minnesota! your votes today were not just heard loud and wide across the state of missouri and minnesota, but they were heard loud and louder all across this country. and particularly in a place that i suspect maybe in massachusetts they were heard particularly loud tonight. this was a good night for rick santorum. i want to congratulate senator
argentina s president accuses britain and wants u.n. intervention to prevent a war. claim to be the conservative alternative to mitt romney. i stand here to be the conservative alternative to barack obama. an unexpected clean state clean sweep for rick santorum and once again all bet are off for the republican race for the presidential nomination. the military is sold on the syrian city has continued for a fifth day. opposition groups say since friday, hundreds of people have been killed by troops loyal to president assad. homs, the third biggest city, appears to have been laid waste. residents say they have been hit by an almost constant barrage of mortars and rockets. this video was shot by an anti-regime activist and posted on the internet. activists report 42 people have been killed there in the last eight hours or so. now you re looking at live images streaming from homs. residents also say snipers are on roof tops and tanks are reportedly close to the city s cente
newt gingrich wasn t even on the ballot there. santorum cruised in his home state of minnesota. ron paul finishing second. santorum clearly seizing the 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