Rick Santorum presidential campaign, 2012
| Rick Santorum President 2012 | |
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| Campaign | U.S. presidential election, 2012 |
| Candidate |
Rick Santorum Former U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania |
| Affiliation | Republican Party |
| Status | Suspended (April 10, 2012) |
| Headquarters | Lynchburg, Virginia |
| Key people | Mike Biundo(campaign manager) John Brabender (senior advisor / media consultant) Hogan Gidley (senior communications advisor) Virginia Davis (senior communications advisor / spokeswoman) Seth Liebsohn (director of policy and speechwriting) Alexandra Wright (finance director) |
| Receipts | US$22,882,887 (July 31, 2012) |
| Slogan | The Courage to Fight for America (previously "Fighting to Make America America Again") |
| Theme song | "Remember Who We Are" by Krista Branch |
| Website | |
| RickSantorum.com | |
Former Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania began a campaign for the 2012 Republican Party nomination for president of the United States in April 2011. He had been preparing for a run since shortly after the 2008 presidential election.
Santorum lagged in the polls for all of 2011 until he surged in the week before the Iowa caucuses, propelling him to a narrow victory over Mitt Romney in the first contest of the presidential primaries. Santorum's presidential hopes received another boost when he surprisingly swept all three votes held on February 7, 2012, in Minnesota, Missouri, and Colorado. On April 10, 2012, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, Santorum announced the suspension of his campaign.
Santorum stopped short of a full-fledged candidacy before the beginning of 2011. Prior to that, he had indicated that he was merely considering running for president.
Santorum filed for an exploratory committee with Federal Elections Commission, and announced the organization on the Fox News program On the Record w/ Greta Van Susteren on April 13, 2011. He formally announced his run for the Republican presidential nomination on ABC's Good Morning America on Monday, June 6, 2011.
In an August 2011 interview with the The Des Moines Register’s editorial board, Santorum said “I’m the only person in this race by measuring the Gallup poll from March to July, everybody else who’s even in the race or a prospective in the race their name identification increase except me. And so you just sort of wonder why is the national media not talking about me when they’re talking about people like Jon Huntsman who are way below me in the national polls yet he gets press every single day. Nobody seems to want to pay any attention to me."
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