The Boston Globe:
Rick Santorum’s campaign insisted Friday the former Pennsylvania senator is still in the race despite mounting pressure even from voters in his home state that he pull out before the Keystone State’s primary April 24.
But Santorum has scheduled no public events over the holiday weekend and has made no major media buys, fueling speculation that he might quit. Polling in Pennsylvania that shows him slipping against front-runner Mitt Romney raises the prospect of an embarrassing home-state loss that could hurt his chances if he were to make a run for the nomination in 2016.
A Santorum campaign spokesman said the candidate had a busy slate of events scheduled for next week and promised that a list would be released soon.
(...) Santorum has given no clear indications that he is about to quit, although he is taking a respite this weekend from the nearly nonstop grind of campaigning, and some, including friends, have urged him to reconsider his candidacy. On Thursday, he huddled with key conservatives to plan a possible path to Tampa, where Republicans will gather in August for their convention.
On Friday, Santorum’s youngest daughter, Bella, born with a potentially fatal disease, was rushed to the hospital, according to the campaign. “The family requests prayers and privacy as Bella works her way to recovery,’’ said Hogan Gidley, Santorum’s director of communications.
Gidley insisted in an interview earlier this week that Santorum will take his campaign all the way to the convention.
Still, the campaign trail is rife with rumors that Santorum, famously stubborn, will soon relent to growing pressure for him to leave the race. A GOP political consultant in Pennsylvania found it noteworthy that the Santorum campaign had yet to make a major ad buy.
4 comentarios:
Si se retira: ¿qué creeis que será de Santorum? ¿Puede presentarse en 2016 si Romney no es presidente? Y si es así: ¿puede Romney hacerle un hueco en su gabinete, o puede colocarse en algún sitio en el que esté contento, en el Senado por ejemplo?
No jodas...Santorum..aguanta..O que tus delegados se pasen a Ron xdd
JH, en el Senado uno no se coloca, lo tienen que elegir los votantes. No creo que le interese volver al Senado. Yo creo que volverá a presentarse a Presidente en 2016, si Romney no sale elegido este año.
Ahora tiene una base electoral nacional, a partir de la cual poder crecer, aunque yo soy de la opinión que los que le han votado lo han hecho más porque no tenían otras opciones, que porque realmente les entusiasme. Si en 2016 entra en juego gente como Marco Rubio, o incluso Mike Huckabee que podría presentarse también, veo difícil que Santorum pueda llegar lejos.
Aunque lo mismo decíamos este año cuando entró Rick Perry y parecía que iba a anular a cualquier otro candidato alternativo a Romney.
Lo malo para Santorum en 2016 es que todo apunta que, de no haber un republicano en la Casa Blanca, el nivel de candidatos va a ser altísimo, con los nombres que todos conocemos.
Igual me paso, pero tengo la impresión de que Santorum ha sido únicamente el menos malo de las alternativas a Rommey.
Tiene mérito lo que ha hecho, pero no sobrevaloremos!
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