Rick Santorum Ends Bid for the White House, Backs Rubio

He is also expected to make an endorsement in the race when he announces he is dropping out.

Two more Republican presidential candidates ended their runs for the White House.

“We are suspending our campaign”, he said on Fox News on Wednesday night. Rand Paul, of Kentucky, on Wednesday dropped out of the GOP race for the White House – also announced he would support Rubio, of Florida.

Presidential hopeful Rick Santorum will drop out of the 2016 presidential race, according to reports based on Republican party sources. “Today, I will end where I began, ready and willing to fight for the cause of liberty”, Paul said in a statement.

While Santorum, who had made religious freedom and social conservatism the pillars of his campaign, won several more states in 2012, he could not sustain the momentum and ultimately lost the nomination to Romney. Marco Rubio, who did very well in Iowa on Monday night and told CNN’s Dana Bash that he thinks Santorum is “fantastic.”

Like Mr. Huckabee, who won the Iowa caucuses in 2008, Mr. Santorum centered his 2012 strategy on reviving his support with conservatives in that state, where his victory propelled him up from the bottom of national polls after months of handshakes and grass-roots events. He even told the Des Moines Register after the results of the Iowa caucuses were released on Monday that he was going to “reassess” his bid. In his first campaign ad, Santorum hit the Texas senator: “You want someone to read one helluva bedtime story, Ted Cruz is your guy”. Santorum appeared alongside Huckabee at a veterans’ fundraiser Trump hastily organized in January after a spat with Fox News. “Six to seven weeks out, I was sitting at 3 or 4 percent in Iowa in a field that was half the size of this field, and we were able to come back and catch a late surge”. “But I can’t really blame a lot of the media for focusing attention on somebody who’s going to make them money”, Santorum lamented in Iowa.

Santorum is one of the most notoriously anti-gay of the Republican Presidential wannabes, claiming repeatedly that homosexuality is a condition that can be cured.