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CNN: Rick Santorum Suspending Presidential Campaign

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02.03.16 | 1:59 pm
Republican presidential candidate, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum speaks Saturday, Jan. 23, 2016, at the New Hampshire Republican Party summit in Nashua, N.H. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) will announce on Wednesday night that he is dropping out of the presidential race, CNN reported Wednesday afternoon.

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  1. I still haven’t recovered from the trauma of the years Rick Santorum was one of my PA Senators. Probably never will.

  2. Notice that they never say ‘quit’? It’s always ‘suspend.’

    Has their been a campaign that has EVER restarted once it’s been ‘suspended’?

  3. I think that suspend is the magic word for keeping the money. Or something.

  4. Jeb!: Please clap; I will now get all of Rick’s delegates.

  5. BOTH of them?

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