You had mitt romney pull this ad in pennsylvania but basically the ad said, pennsylvania didn t want santorum as the senator for that state and they wouldn t want him as president them pulled that ad because of the child s illness. the reality is he was facing a scary situation. dawning political situation ahead in pennsylvania. it was. let s just remember here, these guys, running for president is personally draining, emotionally draining. so here is his entire family. his kids have taken, the ones that are of college age have taken the semester off to campaign with him and they have this sort of constant family health crisis at home with their youngest child. so throw all of that stress that you re carrying. the stress of your own political career and this obviously means something to him. he would like to have a, become a national statesman of sorts. i think he is in many cases, won enough primaries to earn that. you throw the whole thing together. you said timing is everything.
Things are harder to get over for the candidates themselves. what is amazing here. usually, candidates get out a primary too late. when they should, in this case, i would say for santorum s own political future, he got out at about as good of a time for his own political rehabilitation and his own political future going forward as he could have done. he went through it. made his last stand in wisconsin. it didn t work. he gets out before the possibility of embarrassing himself and losing pennsylvania. let me bring you back in. we know within the hour the president will speak from florida on the buffett rule. this conversation of fairness or class warfare, depending on as you say, your perspective here. but newt gingrich is saying he is staying in the race. as reality forms into a one-on-one battle between mitt romney and president obama with the campaign even having that phone conference yesterday, wanting romney s tax returns. wapgt romney to be clear on why
The decision last night to suspend the campaign and called the staff. we had the conversation about how it was going. but from the nuts and bolts standpoint, there were several things that had to happen in order for us to secure that nomination. and some of the things were becoming increasingly difficult to ensure that they happened. and one of those was, texas had to be winner take all. we needed newt to step aside a long time ago. what about the pressure of losing pennsylvania? two things out there that needed to that had a. what about the pressure of losing his home state, the possibility of losing his home state? yeah, you know, i don t think that was too much in the forefront of this decision. only because, you know, rick lost the senate race in pennsylvania and it has never been about winning and losing for rick. it is about pushing forward. pushing the message of freedom. and defeating barack obama. there are some bumps and bruises along the way. you win some states and
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. we are going to continue to fight for those voices. we re going to continue to fight for the americans who stood up and gave us that air under our wings that allowed us to accomplish things that no political expert would have ever expected. there is a lot of greatness, a lot of greatness in this country. and we just need leaders who believe in that. who are willing to give voice to that. who are willing to raise us up instead of trying to provide for us and do for us what we can better do for ourselves. that s the message that came to me and it s one that i feel very, very good about continuing to talk to americans about. i walked out after the iowa