April 2nd, 2012

Santorum rep: Not about D.C. endorsements

Rick Santorum’s Communications Director Hogan Gidley responds to growing pressure for the candidate to drop out of the GOP race.

Gidley says, “I mean, look, if this were all about D.C. endorsements, we should have gotten out of this thing a long time ago.  This isn’t about Washington, D.C.  It’s about the rest of the country and that’s why we’ve been able to do so well in all of the states and that’s why Rick Santorum has a lot of votes and has won a lot of states at this point. But Rick I think made a pretty good joke the other day on the campaign trail talking about Paul Ryan and Marco Rubio.  He said they’re great people, they have a lot of respect, but they’re young and entitled to make mistakes. We still have a long way to go in this process, 1,144 is the number and of course, everybody will coalesce behind the Republican nominee because what’s important here is beating Barack Obama, but there’s a long way to go and there are a lot of votes out there and we’re going to keep pushing forward and see what we can do.”

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