Rick Santorum, who went back and forth with Mitt Romney in a tense Republican nomination contest earlier this year, will participate in the presumptive GOP nominee’s coronation after all.
Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, announced via Twitter Tuesday morning that Santorum, along with Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, will address attendees at the party’s convention in Tampa later this month.
A longtime aide to Santorum suggested this week that conservatives would be “quite disturbed” if the former Pennsylvania senator was not afforded a prominent role at the convention, where Romney will formally accept his party’s presidential nomination. The RNC announced Monday that Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and Condoleezza Rice would be among those headlining the quadrennial event.