Politics
Elections 2012: It’s Obama and Romney – Santorum withdraws from race
U.S. President Barack Obama (l) faces Mitt Romney (r) in November elections. PHOTO/AP
A Washington Post-ABC poll out Tuesday finds that President Obama leads Mitt Romney in a general election matchup, 51 percent to 44 percent.
Rick Santorum announced the suspension of his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination on Tuesday, adding that he will not stop fighting for the defeat of incumbent U.S. President Barack Obama.
Speaking at his home state of Pennsylvania, Santorum said: “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 are going to continue to fight for those Americans who stood up and gave us that air under our wings that allowed us to accomplish things that no political expert would ever have expected,” he said.
Speaking in Gettysburg, near the famed Civil War battle site, the former Pennsylvania Senator said that United States “will never be a country that can go forward as a great and powerful country again unless we remember who we are and what makes us Americans. That’s what our campaign was about.”