korea ahead. good morning from new york city. it s wednesday, april 11, 2012 and this is the daily rundown. i m luke russert in for chuck todd. after 32 states, 20 debates and $180 million of candidate spending and 15 more from super pacs effectively ended yesterday when rick santorum suspended his campaign. against all odds we won 11 states, millions of voters, millions of votes. we won more counties than all of the other people in this race combined and we made a decision over the weekend that, while this presidential race for us is over, for me, and we will suspend our campaign effective today, we are not done fighting. nbc news senior political editor mark murray joins me now. mark, thanks so much for being on the program. this was a gift to mitt romney because it was on the cover of usa today.