Timothy McNulty | November 24, 2009
In October Rick Santorum went to Iowa, and admitted he was thinking about a 2012 presidential run. Hotline says he's now going to ultra-conservative South Carolina too:
Ex-Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) is headed to Palmetto Country next month for a two-day campaign swing.
Santorum, who has already visited IA, will stop in Spartanburg, Greenville and Hilton Head to campaign for Rep. Gresham Barrett (R), who is locked in a tough GOP primary for GOV.
. . . "When you give a speech in either Iowa or New Hampshire, as a
Republican or a Democrat, people pay attention," Santorum said on a
conference call the day before his trip. "This is an opportunity to
speak and lend my voice to what I hope to be a conservative movement
and a Republican movement to change the direction Barack Obama wants to take us."
Strategists say SC is a natural state for him to make early plays,
given the electorate's more rightward bent. SC has a much more
conservative GOP electorate than IA or NH, and Santorum, as a hero of
the Christian right during his time in DC, could be a good fit for
voters looking for a champion on social issues.
Santorum's trip is scheduled for 12/8-9.
(H/t CQ Politics)
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Nov 24 2009, 11:00 AM
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Timothy McNulty