second of all he's had more money than rick santorum. third of all, i think this is the biggest point. they're angrier, so i think he's tapped into that and galvanized them. >> trump says he's bringing in millions of new voters. he's going to appeal to independents and democrats. i've seen a lot of polling that suggested these voters -- there aren't that many democrats. these are republicans who haven't voted before, or if they have voted before, you know, they've been kind of sullen, maybe haven't voted in primaries before. which is it? >> again, i think it's both. we saw last time in 2012, particularly in states like ohio, where a number of conservatives stayed home, because they could just not relate to mitt romney and didn't feel he was their candidate. however we're seeing things like in pennsylvania this year where there were any registration numbers, that showed some 40,000-some democrats switched on the floor to republican. a lot of people believe this is the vote for donald trump. i think the most interesting part is there was n

i think in 2012 you were backing rick santorum and hoped that an early endorsement of rick santorum might give momentum to his cause. this year a group that i think you health pull together -- helped pull together endorsed ted cruz early, and as you have been discussing, we might end up with a brokered convention before we know who the nominee is. how, in retrospect, do you view its effort to bring together evangelical christians as a -- conservatives as a united front early in the campaign? is it just the individual vagaries of an election year, or something you have second thoughts about? is it too difficult to do? mr. perkins: you know, that is a question you could probably write a book about, because i have been involved in several election cycles, and, quite frankly, went into this election cycle that something like that could ever happen, because it has not happened -- not in a timely manner. there was a coalescing around rick santorum, but it was basically -- i think it was right after south carolina that that occurred, and there was just a few people left in the race. it happened

rick santorum will be in northern florida campaigning for rubio late they are week. you talked about jeb bush. the question is, do these endorsements matter?

we'll hear from former presidential candidate rick santorum. senator ben sass and governor gary johnson who's seeking the libertarian party's presidential nomination. his is 45 minutes. to get us started please welcome senator ted cruz, paul teller. paul: hey, everybody. good to see you. privileged to be the chief of staff for united states senator ted cruz. you may have heard of him. it is excellent to be here. i have come here the last 20 years and the best event of the conservative movement, best for networking and fellowship and pac is he developing that. the intellectual development portion. it's no locker going to be good enough to come here. we should be better armed with idea and strategies that can help each of us be better soldiers for liberty for our communities across america and across the world. this will highlight three ifferent approaches. classical, popular and libertarian conservatism. classical or traditional emphasizes things like natural law and history as a guide for modern behavior. populace emphasizes such things ncy and

look, everyone knows and is very grateful for rick santorum. native of pennsylvania.s a candidate for president in 2012 and 2016. from in the u.s. house the1 to 1995 and moved up to senate. member of the gang of seven that exposed the congressional banking and post office scandal and author of the welfare reform act of 1996. he wrote and championed legislation that outlawed partial birth abortion, unborn victims of violence and so many others across a wide variety of issues. he's co-founder of patriot voice as grassroots community of voice from across the nation committed to promoting family, faith, freedom and opportunity. he's an author of books called "blue collar conservatives" and ow we can better engage. and now to talk to us about populous conservativism, please welcome senator rick antorum. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate it. thank you. i appreciate it very, very much. it's great to be back here at c-span. i just want to point out -- i have two of my boys here from the citadel and i see some citadel guys. hey, citadel guys stand up. i want to give you a

rick santorum. welcome back to the show. good to have you here. it is good to be back.irst of all, you have seen the attacks over the week. i find that this does not really sound like marco rubio. he is trying to get down into the gutter and slug it out. in a way that i do not find silva coming. >> you have to fight fire with fire. i cannot say that i am enamored by some of the things that have been said by both of these candidates. if someone is coming after you at that level, at some point, you just have to respond. trying to respond in a different level. it has not really been very effective. donald trump is on a roll right now. i agree, i do not think that that is marco rubio's sweet spot. you have to fight fire with fire. >> you still want to be true to who you are. the voters are a leg in you. a scrappy guy from the beginning. >> at some point, you have to adapt. it is who you have to be sometimes. you are put in a position where you really have no choice. i think that that is really where marco is. he has been treated rudely. you can try to continue to dismiss it

rick santorum run. the cruz victory was not a surprise. but everyone expected that donald trump would do much better than he did and get much closer to the senator from texas than he did, we've discussed that may be a problem for donald trump. he continues to struggle in close states, we're only republicans can vote. kansas was just such a state. on saturday and he fell far behind ted cruz. screen there were any indications that the tone or ten or of the conversations in the past few weeks have changed the mind ever kansas vote? >> you don't get that sense. you get the sense that ted cruz is very popular with relick us conservatives, always have been. those are the very people that always go to caucus here in kansas. as i suggested they did so in the last two caucuses here. i don't think anyone was surprised by that. now, donald trump did make a last minute appearance in kansas saturday in wichita, trying to rally some votes and i did talk to caucus goers today who support donald trump, they're all very frustrated with government and so th

rick santorum got 49% of the vote in state that year, mitt romney in second with 27%, then game newtingrich and then, then came ron paul, fourth place, single digits, a measly 6% of the vote. yeah, that's what jeb bush used to call a jackpot, but that's a terrible showing. in louisiana that year in 2012, a 6% showing in the primary, that was good for precisely zero delegates. or so even thought. every state party picks its delegates by slightly different means. in louisiana in 2012 turns out they had a primary and then a caucus. it was a caucus that nobody paid attention to except for mr. 6%, ron paul. at this low key, hoe hum nobody is paying attention bureaucratic state caucus followed the primary, ron paul supporters maneuvered themselves into the majority. they got themselves 12 delegates for ron paul. everybody who watched the louisiana caucus on tv, thought they saw ron paul lose there. they did. everybody thought he would get no delegates because of that. no, turns out actually he got a bunch. and actually, wait, there was more after the first caucus where they picked up 12 be

when rick santorum came in second in the republic cap presidential primary in 2012, john yob ran rickorum's delegate operations and became his area of focus. john yob is an experienced political operative, a delegate guy, he's fashioned himself into being an expert on delegates and specifically on political conventions. last month he published this book, "chaos: the outsider's guide to a contested republican national convention." timely, right? the book makes a prediction about the current republican primary. it says, "the only thing that is certain is that there will be chaos in cleveland." chaos in cleveland. you know, even if none of the rest of us are experts on this stuff, we can all do enough of the delegate math, ourselves, to know the only hope the republican party has of stopping donald trump from becoming the nominee is to try to maneuver these delegates he's earning across country as he wins state after state to somehow peel those delegates off donald trump and cobble together a majority of those delegates to support somebody else at the convention. now, that's not stealing

rick santorum got 49% of the vote in state that year, mitt romney in second with 27%, then game newtgingrich and then, then came ron paul, fourth place, single digits, a measly 6% of the vote. yeah, that's what jeb bush used to call a jackpot, but that's a terrible showing. in louisiana that year in 2012, a 6% showing in the primary, that was good for precisely zero delegates. or so even thought. every state party picks its delegates by slightly different means. in louisiana in 2012 turns out they had a primary and then a caucus. it was a cause kus that nobody paid attention to except for mr. 6%, ron paul. at this low key, hoe hum nobody is paying attention bureaucratic state caucus followed the primary, ron paul supporters maneuvered themselves into the majority. they got themselves 12 delegates for ron paul. everybody who watched the louisiana caucus on tv, thought they saw ron paul lose there. they did. everybody thought he would get no delegates because of that. no, turns out actually he got a bunch. and actually, wait, there was more after the first caucus where they picked up 1

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weather supporting jeb bush or chris christieieor rick santorum. whether supporting ben carson or rand paul. what we are saying is the supporters of the many other good people who ran in this race coming and joining us because we're the one campaign that's beaten repeatedly and can beat donald trump. >> campaigning in idaho saturday senator marco rubio told us the state of the union must win, a will win. >> and we will win the state of florida and beat donald trump there the y we beat charlie crist. and then have experience for people who say truly are and then it is going to there with the much needed boost with the decided win in the south florida primary. even better he likely gets all of the 23 delegates. puerto ricans can vote in the presidential primaries and can actually vote with e election to the u.s. territory. then it is going to keep his candidacy afloat. as the chairman of the house budget committee >> they all head to the polls on tuesday and that leads to the pair of the prime time debate and taking the stage wednesday and the republ

i think in 2012 you were backing rick santorum and hoped that an early endorsement of rick santorum might give momentum to his cause. this year a group that i think you helped pull together endorsed ted cruz early, and as you have been discussing, we might end up with a brokered onvention before we know who the nominee is. how, in retrospect, do you view this effort to bring together evangelical conservatives as a united front early in the campaign? is it just the individual vagaries of an election year, or something you have second thoughts about? is it too difficult to do? mr. perkins: you know, that is a question you could probably write a book about, because i have been involved in several election cycles, and, quite frankly, went into this election cycle with doubt that something like that could ever happen, because it has not happened -- not in a timely manner. there was a coalescing around rick santorum, but it was basically -- i think it was right after south carolina that that occurred, and there was just a few people left in the race. it happened early in this cycle. in fact, it

and now to talk to us about populous conservativism, please .elcome senator rick santorum [cheers andnote -- senator santorum: thank you. i want to point out -- i have two of my boys here from the c inch tadel. you guys, stand up. good job. great to be here with you. let me just say that i listened to ben sass emp. i'm a conservative. but what i would say there are a lot of conservatives today all across this country who are scared. nervous about what is happening in this presidential race. seeing the republican party being attorney up. they are nervous as all heck as to what they are going to do. now you know what the american public has been feeling over the ast 10, 0, 30 years. they are nervous about their jobs, their families, their communities. they are nervous about where am america is going and putting their faith in the conservative movement and putting their faith in the republican party and concerned about them and going to work to make things better. create conditions. many of which were talked by men which i have nout for. but they don't see anything happening and see amer

there are in wisconsin but this is one rick santorum, why is bernie sanders succeeding, donald trumps is one rick santorum started to talk about blue collar economics, trade is a big issue. and you see in some of these areas rick gave mitt romney probably more of a run for his money than mitt romney was expecting. there was buyer's remorse. you get that when somebody breaks away. this time this becomes a -- waiting to see. governor scott walker might get involved this week in janesville. that's speaker paul ryan's district. he has to hold the gavel. you have national players as well who this next big battle in the republican race will play out and i think it's going to be fascinating. you pull out to the national map so far, this is cruz in iowa, this is trump, this is rubio now gone from the race. more trump in this area. you would suggest advantage trump but governor kasich says he is going to play as well. a lot telling governor kasich, if you can't do well here you should get out of the way and give cruz his one on one with donald trump. you have a three-way race. you would have

rick santorum will be in northern florida campaigning for rubio late they are week. you talked about jeb bush. the question is, do these endorsements matter? if it did, jeb bush would still be in the race at this point. >> reporter: carly fiorina was moving towards ted cruz and away from marco rubio. endorsement, i think that's the end of marco rubio. i think donald trump is up in the republican poll 40%? >> yes. with rubio at 24%. >> big margin. he has a lot of torque make up. so does bernie sanders. we go back to the democratic debate. that is the focus tonight. i think the polls showing her up about 61% over bernie sanders. should be fiery. we are four hours away. we will have more at 6:00 as well. we will look at all these candidates. but the center of the universe, of the political universe, is right here in florida. 99 delegates up for grabs. even in the republicans, 507 their votes. we will see what happens. but a lot of action here in miami. keith, thank you. miami. they will be back at six, and 11 with continuing coverage of tonight's democratic presidential

rick santorum got prine% of the vote. then newt gingrich. then ron paul, 4th place, single digits. measly 6% of the vote. that's what jeb bush used to call a jackpot. honestly, that is a terrible showing. in louisiana in 2012, a 6% was precisely zero delegates or so everyone thought. every state party picks its delegates by slightly different means and louisiana in 2012, it turns out they had a primary and then a caucus. a caucus nobody seemed to pay attention to, except for mr. 6%, ron paul. at this low key ho hum, nobody is paying attention, bureaucratic process, roen paul supporters ma offered no into ma joerts, they got themselves 12 delegates for ron paul. even though everybody who thought they watched the louisiana contest on tv thought they saw ron paul lose there, they did. everybody thought he would get no delegates out of louisiana because of that. no, it turns out actually he got a bunch actually wait, there was more. through the rules of that caucus, which no other campaign really paid attention to, the paul campaign was then able to select an additional five delegates,

this was a rick santorum state over mitt romney. one of the things we are seeing, we are seeing it in kansas tonight. we've seen it in other states like oklahoma. rick santorum states are becoming ted cruz states. in this election. so that suggests there is a potential constituency here for cruz. also, in 2012, nearly 60% of the electorate in this state in louisiana and the republican primary white evangelical christians. again, a group that ted cruz is going after. but the most important factor may well be in louisiana, a change to the rules. in advance of this primary. the republican party decided they are not going to do what they did four years ago when they allowed independents and democrats to cross over and vote in the primary. this time for the first time in louisiana on the republican side, it is a closed primary. a closed primary. these closed events we're starting to see donald trump maybe having a lot more trouble in closed primaries than in places where democrats and independents can participate. a big test shaping up i

like he was cruising, but then he had a bad cpac speech, talking about being conservative, and rick santorumwon with no delegates at stake and changed the race dramatically. it has some peril for trump. the race is looking to keep the race alive. this could be a real factor in the race, regardless of whether trump does well or not at cpac, whether trump does well or not at the debate in the motor city. >> look there was not much good news for marco rubio in last night's results. the one thing they pointed to, it's not totally uncredible, is the notion that marco rubio did well with late deciding voters, and maybe a case to be maybe that marco rubio's attacks on trump, as he claims, helped propel him to a better finish, although his finish is not great, if those attacks continue as you points out at the debate tonight, with ben carson now off the debate stage and if cruz and rubio go hard at trump tonight, and those attacks take a little bit more out of trump's hide, structurally, as you say, it may not be a great saturday, as good as his tuesday night was. >> i know the bell rung, but with t

i think the overarching question for ted cruz is if he can become what rick santorum wanted to be by the end of the contest. and rick santorum wanted to be the person who could be sort of a blue collar moralist. >> how did he do in kansas? >> he won kansas. >> what percentage of the vote in 50%. very similar to what we're seeing with cruz. >> but more importantly, in michigan, he won i think 37% of the votes to mitt romney's 41%. >> why am i saying it that way? because does this result mean what michael is saying, which is the hands or whatever else, this has been a shift, or is this what that represents? >> too soon to tell. necessary but not sufficient for ted cruz to win kansas. a place that he should win because santorum won it, huckabee won it. throw it through the night. if he wins maine that is perhaps even more significant and also kentucky and louisiana are very important, both heavily blue collar and heavy evangelical. one thing that donald trump that has done to make him so successful, cnn provided these numbers, he is winning blue collar every lo venvangelicalse. ted cruz

because if somebody else like rick santorum did to mitt romney wins the rural areas of the state, towin the state, you have to run up the numbers in the population centers and close suburbs. that was key to romney four years ago. it's critical for governor kasich tonight. >> thanks very much. we're going to check back in a little while. let's go to anderson. >> let's check in with our reporters, analysts. nia-malika henderson, what are you looking for tonight? donald trump has been going hard after john kasich attacking him for the first time in this campaign. >> that's right, calling him the absentee governor, also took a pot shot at chris christie when he was making the same remark about chris christie. but, you knows, i think what do these white voters do in this state, not only for the republican primary, but the democratic primary? is he resonating with nose union voters? are democrats switching over from the democratic ranks to vote for him? you know, i think if kasich wins, it's going to be about his ability to really have something of a broad coalition which is what he was ab

it shows marco rubio's weakness in the fact that rick santorum had endorsed rubio.kansas which backs up the midwest corridor so far for senator cruz. back to you. >> what probably at some point of concern for senator rubio is governor brownback had backed him and that did very little good in this conservative state. still blowback for the governor over tax cuts that didn't generate nearly the revenue he thought and there was sort of this conservative cabal that said you let us down. he was never able to get all the bad press that stuck to him. he won, was re-elected but ever so barely. meantime, there is also the fact what role if any did the former standard bearer of this party, mitt romney, play in the middle of all this. when i chatted with him, he just said he had to clear his conscience. he said this is not the guy we wanted. he had gotten donald trump's backing four years ago, he said donald trump is not the same man i remember four years ago. many look at it and say we don't believe it but there is division among the establishment players. they are not all on

four years ago, a close primary there between mitt romney, rick santor santorum, romney won by a couple of months. what we see tonight is three quarters of the electorate in michigan as very or somewhat conservative. you can see, that's a pretty significant jump from four years ago. that number was only 61% combined. more conservative electorate in michigan, also in michigan tonight, more evangelicals christians, half, that number was under 40% four years ago. move down to mississippi, a similar trend tonight. 84% of republican voters in mississippi describing themselves as conservative, four years ago, this was a primary that rick santorum won four years ago, that number was 71%. so a 13 point jump in the number of republicans in mississippi calling themselves conservative over the last four years. also, the white evangelical a little down, four points off where it was in mississippi four years ago. we can show you the democratic side what we're seeing tonight, combined 57% in michigan, calling themselves very or somewhat liberal. tough to compare this one. the last time they had a pri

in fact, here's former presidential candidates mike huckabee and rick santorum. they're two of the party's fiercest critics of abortions. was they have been very clear when it comes to questions of who should be punished. >> what would happen to doctors or women who participated in abortions? >> it's always the point of trying to say, are you going to criminalize -- that's not the issue. >> well, if it's illegal, it would be. >> it would be. and i think you don't punish the woman, first of all. because it's not about -- i consider her a victim, not a criminal. >> i believe that any doctor who performs an abortion, that i would advocate that any doctor that performs an abortion should be criminally charged for doing so. i don't -- i would never support a criminalization of abortion for mothers, but i do for people who perform them. >> to say, as you can see, that has been essentially the mainstream pro-life position, frankly, for years. i caught up with john kasich after we taped our town hall. here's what he had to say about trump's comments. >> should women who

rick santorum one some contests. the press is looking to keep the race alive.t could be a factor in the race regardless of whether trump does well or not. john: there was not much good news for marco rubio. the one thing they have pointed notion that rubio did very well with late deciding voters in a lot of states. rubio's attacks on trump made for people tend to a better finish. with ben carson now off the and marcoted cruz rubio go hard at trump tonight, it could take more of trump's hide. maybe not a great saturday for donald trump. except for nevada, trump's lost every caucus he has participated in. if you saw donald trump's super press conference in florida last night, you probably noticed governor christie who introduced trump and stood behind him. staring at the back of his head. kristi was thoroughly mocked on social media. he has been trounced for seeming quite opportunist. is it possible that chris christie's presence is helping the front runner more than the markers believe? john: he was also mocked in our cold open. let's look at trump's performance

carly theory not lindsey graham and rick santorum three candidates will appear on the democratic primary ballot hillary clinton martin o'malley and bernie sanders suspended his campaign the polls open at six o'clock tomorrow morning close at seven pm you will have to indicate which primary republican or democrat you want to participate in before election officials give you a ballot voters are required to show a photo id can be a driver's license or any id issued by state government a passport or student id issued by a virginia school. if you do not have a valid id will be given a provisional ballot stay with thirteen is now for your super tuesday coverage the results will be updated continuously throughout the night on thirty news now dot com will also have live team coverage tomorrow night on thirteen years now and the love tonight a close call after a train hit a car in chesapeake police say a sixty year old driver was crossing the tracks again can road when the train hit a driver says he did not see the train were told there are no flashing lights or crossing arms at this crossing the

you mentioned rick santorum four years ago, mike huckabee four years prior to that. we'll see. very early to tell. you mentioned about conservatives and how some of them might be a little surprised if not offended that donald trump at the last minute canceled an appearance. he would not be the first candidate to do so and the argument that he's taking the good night on the stump but you still think that could hurt him. >> look, he should have been here. we had this conversation back and forth about what the ground rules would be for him to come here. one thing we've done at cpac is we've been fair with how we've treated every one of these campaigns. marco rubio came here today and lit the room up and that was the right thing for marco rubio to be here. i just think this nomination contest is at a really critical point for all these guys. i mean, marco rubio is still making the case he can get there, ted cruz lit this room up the day before. and i think it's not just the people in the room, neil. it's conservatives across the country. they want to make sure they get this pick ri

only one percent by mitt romney over rick santorum. that is a blueprint that kaisch will need to stick to, cincinnati. in cuyahoga and hamilton county romney came out of those both with a 20% margin of victory, 16,000 votes each. he won by 12,000. romney won by five percent and an area that we expect kaisch to do better because it is his home port where he has represented the people in becoming governor. the area for donald trump from steubenville on. this is representing a large area of ted strickland's old congressional district. if we see a lot of democrats it could have an impact on strickland's race with pj sittenfeld for the u.s. senate. that is something we will be looking at. also on the republican side we have the question of ted cruz expected to pick up 17% of the vote, where does that come from and who does that impact, all of the things we will be looking at as the numbers roll in at 7:45 tonight. chris. >>> okay. john, a busy night in ohio. we will be here at baldwin wallace university. everything is happening in an import

four years ago, rick santorum and others said some rough things about you. that is how things work.t donald trump is saying, you think goes beyond normal politics? mitt romney: he has taken politics to a holy lower-level than what we have seen, at least in modern times. attacks on people's physical characteristics -- carly fiorina, look at her face, marco rubio, little marco. even calling someone a liar. ted. things.nds of frankly, the vulgarity. that has not been part of political campaigns. it goes on in locker rooms. i understand that. president of the united states, to engage in the kind of personal physical attribute aspects is something we have not seen before. mark: you said to matt lauer that you would not vote for donald trump, but you would not vote for hillary clinton. i think you would say that is the most likely outcome, hillary clinton and donald trump as the nominees. what would you do? mitt romney: i would flow for conservative on the ballot, and if there were not one, i would write in a name. mark: are you available? mitt romney: we will see. mark: would you like to

rick santorum people and the two-party people had spent the previous four years learning.t any unpredictable results. a last ditch effort. everything that they have done now, even e of representatives voted against it. calling everybody else that is not going with them. preventing them as much is a can from doing anything. this is huge. the people who support trump and ted cruz will not rest until there is no establishment left. >> this seems to embolden trump supporters. we are sick of the establishment. we had eight years of barack obama. enough is enough. we want somebody that will come in strong. donald trump comes on strong whether you like him or not. >> a lot of trump supporters that i know will say, look, he is, candidate, he is my murder weapon. you can understand how they got there. >> incredible. thank you. it is good to see you. we have a major comeback on wall street right now. the fifth straight week of gains. so much for that january issue. off the february lows. nearly 2000 points. we have seen this before. bringing in the experts. next. ♪ when you think ab

rick santorum and new gingrich -- newt gingrich said rough things about you.hat's just the way it works. is this different, are the things people will, you and others, saying about donald trump beyond normal politics? and what has happened in past campaigns? gov. romney: i think what he has been doing in the campaign is taking politics to a wholly lower level than we have ever seen, at least in modern times. the attacks based on people's physical characteristics, so saying about carly fiorina, look at her face, saying about marco rubio in the debate, "little marco, little marco," this hasn't been done before. even calling someone a liar. usually, you said this is a person who's had difficulty with the truth. this is a person who is honest -- who is dishonest. saying, "he's a liar, liar ted," these kinds of things -- and frankly, the vulgarity, that hasn't been a part of political campaigns. it goes on in locker rooms and sometimes in small groups. but on a public stage, running for president of the united states, to engage in personal , physical attribute atta

rick santorum, who dropped out of the presidential race earlier this year, was originally slated to speak at the event... but canceled earlier today. right now.... police, secret service and political organizers are getting ready for the arrival of donald trump... hosting an event tomorrow afternoon in west chester. fox19 now's robert guaderrama has been following this story all day... and robert... are police taking into consideration last nights unrest in chicago? frankie, law enforcement is well aware of the potential threat and will be on stand-by. thousands are expected to attend tomorrow's rally here at the savannah center in west chester but only 1700 people fit inside the ballroom here, which means many folks may be out here on the scenes like these are becoming more commonat rally's for donald trump. with protests being planned for tomorrow's event, law enforcers are ready to intervene. sheriff richard jones butler county "people get excited on both sides and they get excited and when you have a big crowd, that's what you got the police for." butler county sheriff richard jones s

rick santorum got 37% of the vote, ron paul got 47%, mitt romney got 41% and this is where he had hometownes. so he was now there was this trouble is this there's a critical lesson in that and this is where to point the a one of trump's strength and the establishment has been trying to keep this in the bottle since the tea party emerged in 2010, the establishment structure of this race to beat ted cruz and then trump whatever you want to call it, disruptive force, it's about strength and leadership, but to the point that i was going to say mitt romney's name has some appeal in michigan so he should go to michigan because his dad was governor there, but what did rick santorum do, he moved off the evangelical message and started talking about blue collar mikeconomics. you hear they balanced the budget from a policy perspective they touch on it but they don't make the connection that trump makes. >> cruz did not get the sense that mitt romney was talking to voters today in some persuasive way. i think he was talking to donors to buy some time and try to build up this stop trump movement. you'

although it wasn't him who was actually the first to bring it in for the national forefront, that was rick santorum and rick perry, voice. he's much better with media. ted cruz actually had a better plan, because he's so bolsterous, when things like this happen, it helps donald trump and you have to give credit to the guy. he's done a masterful job with the media and also he benefited not only from the late breaking voting, but he benefited from the fact that ted cruz still -- even though rubio isn't in the race there was 18% dead vote in arizona that cruz could have picked up. so with that and kasich cruz is still splitting the vote while donald trump is riding high. >> obviously donald trump has a problem in the mormam community. what does this tell you? >> honestly, >> donald trump is going to have a problem. a lot of people were talking about how donald trump is winning so many evangelicals, what they neglected to tell you is how many of those evangelicals are that's an you'll that's lost on me. when you get to people firmer in their faith, donald trump is going to have a hard time. where he be

a meeting was dominated by a group's biggest contribution was helping rick santorum get his movement off the ground. >> that's a really key point. we think of the establishment, so much of those politics are so transactional. these people think they can get close to power, they're going to. this is george will talking about this. he coins the phrase the she republicans. >> the party, it's a big, big tent can expand to include donald trump through november or is this stretching it too far. >> it cannot expand that far and remain a conservative party, which means if he's the nominee there will be no conservative in the race and the v she reasons that are coming to terms with the takeover of their party have to understand that. >> v she republicans. >> the question of class traitorship is central to this. sarah palin had a lengthy facebook post today or yesterday where she ranted about the fact that supporters of donald trump are worried they are getting blacklisted. a former trump aid mentioned a bit about this idea of keeping track of the names of conservative movement. >> a former cr

rick santorum and new gingrich said some interesting things about you.this different, are the things people will, you and others, saying about donald trump beyond normal politics? he hasmney: i think what been doing in the campaign is taking politics to a wholly lower level than we have ever seen, at least in modern times. doomsday scenario. why the political rhetoric in this campaign is different from elections past. mark:the attacks based on peop's sosical characteristics, saying about carly fiorina, look at her face, saying about marco rubio in the debate, "little marco, little marco," this hasn't been done before. even calling someone a liar. liar, liar ted," -- andinds of things frankly, the vulgarity, that hasn't been a part of political campaigns. it goes on in locker rooms and small groups. but on a public stage, running for president in the united states -- president of the united states, to engage in personal attacks is something we haven't seen before. you saidey: --mark: you wouldn't vote for donald trump but you wouldn't vote for hillary cli

high: 69 senator rick santorum is speaking at this years butler county lincoln day dinner. speaking at this years butler county lincoln day dinner. the event kicks off tonight at 7 at the center park event and banquet center in west chester. now, at tonights dinner, former speaker of the house john boehner will be in honored with a tribite. he is also expected crowd around 7:30. this is his first public appearance since his retirement last fall. the cincinnati heart mini marathon kicks off tomorrow morning at 7:30 am. this is video of last years race... but today, you can head to the heart mini expo at the duke energy convention center. if you haven't signed up for tomorrow's race you can sign up there. the expo opened up at 9 and goes till 5 tonight. is your teen looking for a summer job? the beach water park is hosting a job fair today from 1 to 4. now, you must be 16 to apply. you stop by the park any time during today's job fair to meet the management team, see what it's like to work at then park, and even interview on-site! you can also apply online at the beach water park dot com

just ask the guy who won iowa in 2012, president rick santorum. you, sir. ( applause ) so the candidates are stepping up their games. for instance, jeb! last week, i reported that jeb had revitalized his campaign with a bold new strategy. >> jeb bush says that he sees himself as a joyful oi at least that's what he told a teenager on the campaign trail yesterday. the republican presidential candidate gave the boy a toy turtle and says he carries them around in his pocket. >> stephen: yes, he gives out toy turtles. he tried using real turtles, but they kept crawling out of his pockets and then passing him in the polls. ( applause ) but guess what? but guess what? this might come as a shock. i called it. last week, i said this guy was due for a comeback, and according to reuters, he is now in third place nationally. ♪ aint' no stoppin' us now! jeb's on the move! ♪ he's on a rocket-fueled elevator straight to the third floor! and if my math is right, there are only two places "above" that. that's at least a bronze. speaking of bronzer--

he uses the same study rick santorum's book did correlating single parent poverty rates.ld be be deep institutional structures. it's the marriage thing. don't read the book. within a few days, there probably won't be reason to any way. >> this monday on the eve of the florida primary, we'll be in marco rubio's hometown broadcasting live from the bay side marketplace in downtown miami. you do not want to miss it. >>> still ahead, as democrats and republicans try to figure out who exactly is to blame for donald trump's popularity, president obama responds to the suggestion that his presidency had something to do with it. his remarks, ahead. i've been claritin clear for 14 days. when your allergy symptoms start... ...doctors recommend taking one claritin every day of your allergy season... ...for continuous relief. with powerful, 24 hour... ...non-drowsy claritin, live claritin clear. every day. she announced she was doing so hours before the video you're seeing now was publicly released thanks to a court order. she's yet to bring charges against the other officers whose rep

rick santorum campaigned today and the rally was free and open to the public. hillary clinton didn't have campaign events today. she attended nancy reagan's funeral in california. we have more on the funeral in a moment. but first a last quick note on vote 2016. tomorrow is the g.o.p. primary in d.c. just 6% of the voters are registered republicans. that makes it vote at the lowe's madison hotel between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. we have results for you tomorrow on abc7 news at 11:00. we have this word in the newsroom moments ago. in the last five minutes a judge in ohio issued an order that will let 17-year-olds vote in that swing state presidential primary if they will be 18 by the time the election comes up in the fall. this could be a big help for bernie sanders' campaign. we'll have more information as it comes in the newsroom. alison: get back to today's memorial for nancy reagan. politician, journalists, celebrities joined the former first lady's family to say goodbye today. that ceremony wrapped up an hour ago. paul was at the reagan library in simi valle

it was a 21-point win over rick santorum. it's why romney won the state in oakland county, michigan. you can see donald trump clinging to about a 3,000 vote lead. this is the biggest republican county in the state about half in. >> we're waiting for the piece other than the oven mitt of the state of michigan. some of the prettiest territory in all the land. at the top of the hour, we'll have a characterization of the race in michigan. here is 16% of the raw vote in thus far. please stay with us. we need to be ready for whatever weather may come our way. my name's scott strenfel and i'm a meteorologist at pg&e. we make sure that our crews as well as our customers are prepared to how weather may impact their energy. so every single day we're monitoring the weather, and when storm events arise our forecast get crews out ahead of the storm to minimize any outages. during storm season we want our customers to be ready and stay safe. learn how you can be prepared at pge.com/beprepared. together, we're building a better california.

he also uses the same study that rick santorum's book did correlating poverty rates and single parent lats and comparing atlanta to salt lake city. why the difference between the two cities? could there be deep institutional structures that led to an under class in one of them? no, it's a marriage thing. don't read the book. within a few days there probably won't be any reason to anyway. >>> this monday on the eve of the florida primary we will be in marco rubio's hometown broadcasting live from the bay side marketplace in downtown miami at 8:00 p.m. eastern. if you're by my sl ami, come through and say so. >> they're trying to figure out who is to blame for donald trump's popularity. president obama responds to the fact that his presidency had something to do with it. that's ahead. >>> while we are all focused on the presidential race and the next big primary, there are other issues on the ballot including a race in illinois, the outcome of which may result in a district attorney paying the price for the way she handled an explosive shooting. anita alvarez became infamous during the