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The independent
| 1 year ago
Hours after Mitt Romney essentially declared victory in the long and bitter battle to become the Republican presidential nominee for 2012, one of his last surviving rivals, Newt Gingrich, unofficially accepted the obvious and promised to suspend the...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Share This Story The anti-war Paul has been a favorite among members of the U.S. military, something his campaign contribution records clearly demonstrate...Air Force and the Texas National Guard -- has taken in more than $333,000 among members of...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Ron Paul is the final Mitt Romney alternative in the GOP presidential race now that Newt Gingrich is bowing out of the race, a fact that has wide-ranging implications for the party's chances of winning the White House in 2012. Share This Story Though...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
During the course of the Republican presidential primary season, Newt Gingrich branded Mitt Romney a liar, a Massachusetts liberal and a candidate so weak U.S. President Barack Obama would "tear him apart" in a general election campaign. But as he...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Jansing & Co" in an interview that aired Wednesday. When pressed on whether he would be "comfortable" with a Romney presidency, Carter responded, "I would rather have a Democrat, but I would be comfortable." "I think Romney has shown in his past,...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
Media saw Romney as nominee post-Michigan Report: Media saw Romney as nominee post-Michigan The media decided that Mitt Romney would be the inevitable Republican presidential nominee weeks before voters did, according to a report that analyzes race...
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Mail Online UK
| 1 year ago
25 April 2012 The bitter Republican primary battle has come to an end with party chiefs formally endorsing Mitt Romney as their man and Newt Gingrich conceding by telephone to his former rival. Gingrich's belated exit from the race came after Romney...
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International Business Times
| 1 year ago
Share This Story Two weeks after ending his presidential campaign and a bitter rivalry with Republican frontrunner Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum reluctantly admitted he would support the former Massachusetts governor if he won the nomination on CNN...
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Canada.com
| 1 year ago
House Speaker Newt Gingrich is poised to end his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination next week, throwing in the towel after enduring a thorough drubbing by front-runner Mitt Romney in a quintet of GOP primaries on Tuesday. Gingrich,...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney is claiming victory after his Tuesday sweep of five more GOP primaries...RNC Chairman Reince Priebus on Wednesday anointed him "our party's presumptive nominee." After remaining in the race against all odds, Gingrich will formally end his...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Ron Paul is more of a distraction from the Romney coronation than a serious threat' Romney swept all five states that voted Tuesday . The most competitive state, Delaware , was a nearly 30-point Romney blowout in a primary that Newt Gingrich had...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich will suspend his presidential campaign on Tuesday, according to multiple media outlets, and Rick Santorum will meet with presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney three days later, tying up loose ends as Republicans unite behind Romney for...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
At the same time that reports were emerging Wednesday that Newt Gingrich will drop out of the presidential race, Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus gave Romney the party's full blessing...That means he is our guy, Priebus said on a...
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Suburban Trends
| 1 year ago
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will suspend his presidential candidacy after winning just two Republican primaries and falling far behind in the delegate count to his party's presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney, a person familiar with his plans said.
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Republican Mitt Romney spent $76.6 million in his U.S. presidential bid through March, far more than his three main rivals combined, financial statements show. At the end of March, Romney had won 607 delegates and 4.1 million votes, meaning he spent...
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The New York Times
| 1 year ago
48 am Newt Gingrich sounds like a man who is throwing in the towel. At an appearance in North Carolina, Mr. Gingrich conceded that Mitt Romney would be the party's nominee and suggested that he would be transitioning out of the race in the next...
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Vanity Fair
| 1 year ago
what does Newt Gingrich's loss mean for the future of his campaign? True, Gingrich has never let poor performance or an inability to win the nomination interfere with his quest for the presidency before, but he did recently threaten to reassess his...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Newt Gingrich appears in effect to have conceded the race to Mitt Romney , speaking at an event in Cramerton, North Carolina. According to reporters, he was introduced not as a candidate but a "person with big ideas", and said he was in North...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
Greg Henderson On Tuesday, as he swept all five Republican presidential primaries the first held since his last credible opponent conceded the race Mitt Romney declared "the start of a new campaign." On Wednesday, Democrats engaged that campaign, as...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
He may have signaled that he was considering an end to his presidential bid, but Newt Gingrich plans to continue Wednesday on a multi-day sprint through North Carolina that involves nearly two dozen events for Gingrich and his wife Callista. The...
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National Public Radio
| 1 year ago
After sweeping all five of Tuesday's Republican presidential primaries, already presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney declared that the 2012 presidential campaign is now really on. It's "the start of a new campaign to unite every American who knows in...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney has amassed a nearly-insurmountable delegate lead, and is on track to become his party's nominee for president. The road to victory hasn't been easy for the former Massachusetts governor. The primary campaign stretched on for months, and...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney borrowed a Bill Clinton campaign slogan, saying after sweeping five Northeast U.S. primaries it was still about the economy, "and we're not stupid." The presumptive Republican presidential nominee swept primaries in New York, Pennsylvania,...
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News 24
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney effectively claimed the US Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, revelling in a five-state primary sweep and urging voters to help him oust President Barack Obama in November...He trounced former House speaker Newt Gingrich and...
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Al Jazeera
| 1 year ago
40 Mitt Romney is cruising towards the 1,144 delegates to become his party's presidential nominee [AFP] Having secured victory in the five latest Republican primaries, Mitt Romney has launched his campaign as the party's presumptive presidential...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Jan. 3: Iowa caucus (Official -- eight precincts missing): Rick Santorum 29,839, Mitt Romney 29,805, Ron Paul 26,036, Newt Gingrich 16,163, Rick Perry 12,557, Michele Bachmann 6,046, Jon Huntsman 739, No Preference 147, Other 40, Herman Cain 45.
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney speaks in New Hampshire, on a night when he won five primaries and sealed the presidential nomination. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP Mitt Romney finally declared the Republican presidential race over on Tuesday night after sweeping victories...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
Romney swept the five Northeastern contests, pushing him closer to the 1,144 delegates he needs to clinch the Republican nomination. His victories Tuesday night also increase the pressure on Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul to withdraw from the race,...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
With Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania having bowed out, Mitt Romney won the state's Republican presidential primary Tuesday, returns showed. CNN and NBC projected Romney the winner, with the Pennsylvania secretary of state's Web site showing him with 55.
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Republican Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney greets supporters after speaking at a town hall meeting at Mustang Expediting in Chester, Pennsylvania on April 23, 2012. UPI/Kevin Dietsch License photo Published: April 24, 2012 at 9:52 PM Mitt Romney...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum says he expects to endorse Mitt Romney. Santorum says that he believes Romney is "the right guy" to challenge President Barack Obama. Still, he's stopping short of an official endorsement of his...
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Washington Post
| 1 year ago
To all of the thousands of good and decent Americans I've met who want nothing more than a better chance, a fighting chance, to all of you, I have a simple message, Romney said, according to excerpts of the speech released early by the campaign...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney has now won all five Republican presidential primaries Tuesday, effectively ending the GOP nomination battle. The Associated Press called New York for the former Massachusetts governor not long after polls closed at 9 p.m...Earlier,...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
As votes continued to roll in for Mitt Romney after five Northeastern states weighed in on the Republican presidential campaign, Romney declared Tuesday the start of a new campaign in a victory speech focused exclusively on President Obama. The last...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com Mitt Romney won the Connecticut and Rhode Island primaries Tuesday, the AP reported, on his way to an expected five-state primary sweep, leaving behind his challengers and most remaining doubt that he will be the Republican candidate to...
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Star Tribune
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney has won the Republican presidential primaries in Connecticut and Rhode Island. They are the first in a string of five state primaries being held Tuesday...The five primaries are the first since Rick Santorum suspended his presidential...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
The only sliver of tension tonight apart from whether or not Newt Gingrich is going to not only smell the coffee but drink it as well is in Delaware , where Gingrich has spent a lot of time campaigning. It's close to his home, so he didn't have to...
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Boston Globe
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney on Tuesday night came back to the state where his campaign began nearly 11 months ago, now as the almost-certain Republican nominee and preparing for a vigorous battle with an incumbent president. The former Massachusetts governor will...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
He's for education bill, now he's for [the] Violence Against Women [Act]...Romney on Monday endorsed a proposal by President Obama to extend low-interest loans for low- and middle-income college students. Last week, Romney's campaign said the...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Mitt Romney speaks at Consol Energy Research and Development Facility in South Park Township, Pennsylvania on Monday. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP Mitt Romney is to make a semi-official declaration of victory in the Republican presidential nomination...
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Los Angeles Times
| 1 year ago
The results of tonight's Delaware primary will dictate the future of Newt Gingrich 's presidential bid, according to a source with his campaign. The race for the GOP nomination is all but wrapped up, with Mitt Romney becoming the de facto nominee...
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Fox News
| 1 year ago
FoxNews.com Already the presumptive nominee, Mitt Romney could effectively shut out his remaining Republican presidential rivals in the next round of primaries Tuesday and emerge the clear rival to President Obama in November. The five-state set of...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
But when five states hold contests on Tuesday, the only drama left appears to be the size of the margins of victory for all-but-certain GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. "This is the last day before the primary in a number of states and we're...
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CNN
| 1 year ago
But when five states hold contests on Tuesday, the only drama left appears to be the size of the margins of victory for all-but-certain GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney. "This is the last day before the primary in a number of states and we're...
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The Guardian
| 1 year ago
Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney at the campaign event in Pennsylvania. Photograph: Jae C Hong/AP You might not know it because of the lack of media coverage, but Tuesday features another slate of presidential primaries. Five states Connecticut , Delaware...
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United Press International
| 1 year ago
Republican Mitt Romney , at a campaign stop in Pennsylvania Monday, blistered President Obama's leadership of the U.S. economy and on energy issues. Romney, the likely GOP presidential nominee, said Obama is "a president who by his own measure has...
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The Tribune
| 1 year ago
His shoestring campaign, which ended Tuesday, was a constant reminder of Romney's trouble connecting with the party's conservative core...Editorials on the GOP campaign Editorials on the GOP campaign The following editorial appeared in the Los...
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The Hill
| 1 year ago
If things had worked out I would have been very happy and honored to support Newt, but it never really got to that point, Giuliani said Monday on Fox and Friends. But I think that Mitt has won fair and square, and he's proven that he's the most...
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AP Online
| 1 year ago
The media decided that Mitt Romney would be the inevitable Republican presidential nominee weeks before voters did, according to a report that analyzes race coverage.
The study being released Monday by the nonpartisan Pew Research...
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Associated Press
| 1 year ago
The media decided that Mitt Romney would be the inevitable Republican presidential nominee weeks before voters did, according to a report that analyzes race coverage. The study being released Monday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center Project for...
