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WASHINGTON – Rick Santorum’s campaign is claiming a tie – not conceding a loss – in Michigan’s Republican presidential primary. Whether that’s true or not remains to be seen.
Mitt Romney won the popular vote in the state by a 3-percentage-point margin, but Santorum’s campaign is talking about the delegate count: And it’s true – the most recent tally of votes in the state’s new 14 congressional districts shows a 7-7 split between Santorum and Romney. The primary was set up to award two delegates to the winner in each of the new districts.
Santorum senior strategist John Brabender on Wednesday said it is also his understanding that two delegates to be awarded on a statewide basis will be split – which, if true, would mean a 15-15 split in the available delegates between the candidates.
But it’s unclear where Brabender is getting his information and the state Republican Party, meanwhile, says it’s still counting votes for each of the 14 congressional distiricts.
“The race has been moved up to a tie on delegates,” Brabender said, adding later, “For this to end up a tie can only be seen as a disaster for Mitt Romney.”
Brabender said Romney and his supporters outspent the Santorum campaign by a margin of at least 2-to-1 but the race was still close, despite Michigan being the state in which Romney was born and raised.
Romney, however, ended the night with a much better showing delegate-wise: He won all 29 delegates available in the Arizona primary, which he won handily.
Romney’s campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, also noted that Santorum’s results in Michigan relied in part by attracting Democratic votes. Exit polls showed Romney winning among Republicans by a 48% to 37% margin, while Santorum won among Democrats 53% to 17%.
“If the only way Rick Santorum thinks he can win an election is to recruit Democrats to vote against Mitt Romney, he needs to reevaluate why he is even in this race,” Rhoades said.
Mitt Romney won the popular vote in the state by a 3-percentage-point margin, but Santorum’s campaign is talking about the delegate count: And it’s true – the most recent tally of votes in the state’s new 14 congressional districts shows a 7-7 split between Santorum and Romney. The primary was set up to award two delegates to the winner in each of the new districts.
Santorum senior strategist John Brabender on Wednesday said it is also his understanding that two delegates to be awarded on a statewide basis will be split – which, if true, would mean a 15-15 split in the available delegates between the candidates.
But it’s unclear where Brabender is getting his information and the state Republican Party, meanwhile, says it’s still counting votes for each of the 14 congressional distiricts.
“The race has been moved up to a tie on delegates,” Brabender said, adding later, “For this to end up a tie can only be seen as a disaster for Mitt Romney.”
Brabender said Romney and his supporters outspent the Santorum campaign by a margin of at least 2-to-1 but the race was still close, despite Michigan being the state in which Romney was born and raised.
Romney, however, ended the night with a much better showing delegate-wise: He won all 29 delegates available in the Arizona primary, which he won handily.
Romney’s campaign manager, Matt Rhoades, also noted that Santorum’s results in Michigan relied in part by attracting Democratic votes. Exit polls showed Romney winning among Republicans by a 48% to 37% margin, while Santorum won among Democrats 53% to 17%.
“If the only way Rick Santorum thinks he can win an election is to recruit Democrats to vote against Mitt Romney, he needs to reevaluate why he is even in this race,” Rhoades said.
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