(CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will announce he will suspend his campaign on Tuesday at an event in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, a senior adviser to the campaign told CNN.
Santorum spoke to GOP presidential front-runner Mitt Romney prior to his expected announcement, according to a Republican source.
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An additional source told CNN that Santorum, his wife, and campaign manager held a conference call with staff Tuesday, advising them not to grow discouraged.
"We are going to stay involved and stay active in the next couple of months," Santorum said, according to the source.
Another source said family and political reasons are major factors for Santorum's decision, adding that the candidate will lay out explicit reasons in the press conference.
The announcement comes after the former Pennsylvania senator took a four-day break from the campaign to spend time with his hospitalized three-year-old daughter, who suffers from a serious chromosomal condition that interferes with development.
His daughter, Bella, was released from the hospital late Monday night.
Santorum launched his presidential bid on June 6.
– CNN Political Reporters Peter Hamby and Shannon Travis contributed to this report.
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Thank God and take Newt with you. I hope president Obama win by a landslide.
Wait.. does this mean he's been asked to be Romney's running mate?
Can't imagine what ever gave him the idea he was a viable candidate to begin with. Good luck running Mitt Romney GOPers.
Obama/Biden
Has he finally figured out that the American people don't want a Catholic Christian version of the Ayatollah?
Oh happy day..., oh happy day!
Thank God for that.
Santorum is "suspending his campaign" sort of like a guy finally breaking up with his GF who already left him to move in with another man a month ago.
RON PAUL 2012!
Why wouldn't you want to hear the truth?
aka his internal polling told him he would lose his home state of Penn and be embarrassed and minimized within the party. He'll say of course he got out for the good of the GOP but the truth is he got out because he still wants to matter somehow
well so much for that brokered convention in Tampa..UNLESS of course Newt still hangs around
Salute to Sen. Santorum: GOP need to unite around Mitt to focus our most intense fire on Obama!!!
Wow, bye bye Santo. for now.
I smell controversy! He's probably trying to see how to handle the coming storm.
good riddance to bad rubbish!!!!!!
Ran out of money huh? FY!
Finally! It makes more room for Ron Paul to pull ahead!
/snark
I hope it is to spend more time with his Daughter. My respect for you has come up a couple of clicks if this is the case. Peace to you and your Family Rick.
There is a God.
I wonder if he'll vote for Obama. He said Romney would be worse than Obama. I don't think it would be breaking news though if we found out he's a liar.
OMG that is fantastic! I'm glad this uber right wing nut is out of the race. Nobody wanted his 16th century views of the world anyway.
Finally someone has gotten some sense into his head. Romney 2012!
Sweet! Now Romney can focus on crushing Obama.
yeah.........christian taliban leader is stepping down!!!!!!!!!!
well no chit...everyone has known it will be romney....so what....obama or romney, either way we are all screwed...who cares anymore?....um just the media and a few extreme party loving whackos.
Good news for the GOP, particularly us Romney supporters.
I just hope it isn't related to his daughter's medical condition.