Washington (CNN) – Those questioning how heartfelt Rick Santorum's email late Monday night to supporters was - as it didn't get to an endorsement of Mitt Romney until the 13th paragraph - are reading too much into it, a Santorum adviser says.
John Brabender, a senior Santorum strategist, told CNN that the former senator wanted to methodically lay out his reasoning and thinking to his supporters and if people are trying to read more into it than that, it's "something that doesn't really exist." Brabender also pointed out the title of the e-mail was "Governor Romney."
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(CNN) - As people in North Carolina vote on a controversial referendum that would constitutionally ban same sex marriages, a new national poll indicates that half of the public supports legalizing such unions.
According to a Gallup survey released Tuesday, 50% of Americans say that same sex marriages should be recognized as legal, with 48% saying such marriages should not be legal.
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(CNN) – Former New York governor and Mitt Romney supporter George Pataki injected his voice Tuesday into the debate over the current administration's stance on same-sex marriage, words quickly seized upon by the Obama re-election campaign.
Pataki used President Barack Obama's position to paint the current administration as shifty, while an Obama spokesman said his comments proved Romney has "regressed" on gay rights.
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Washington (CNNMoney) - With federal student loan interest rates set to double July 1, the Senate will consider on Tuesday a bill to extend low 3.4% rates for another year.
In Washington, many lawmakers in both parties agree they'd like to extend the current 3.4% rates for another year. What they don't agree on is how to offset the $6 billion it would cost to do so - a substantial hurdle.
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(CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden joked Sunday that he and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would run for the White House in 2016 "as a team," and in a Tuesday interview, Clinton suggested they are indeed a solid team.
"We've been on the same team in the Senate, we're on the same team now with President Obama," she told CNN Foreign Affairs Correspondent Jill Dougherty. "No matter what I do in future I'd love to have Joe be on the team because he is a great and effective person who cares deeply about our country."
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(CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden concludes a southern fundraising swing by headlining an event Tuesday afternoon in South Carolina.
The vice president will be the main attraction at a fundraising event at a private residence in Charleston, South Carolina. An Obama campaign official says ticket prices for the gathering start at $10,000.
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(CNN) – There was no press conference, no television cameras, no reporters and it didn't even arrive when the sun was up.
Instead, Rick Santorum's endorsement of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came in paragraph 13 in an email to supporters at approximately 11 p.m. Monday night.
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(CNN) – The candidates and their campaigns hit the trail Tuesday, making stops in Georgia, New York and Michigan while it is Election Day across the country.
See their full schedules after the jump.
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CNN: Santorum endorses Romney in e-mail to supporters
Rick Santorum told supporters in an e-mail Monday he was endorsing his one-time rival for the GOP presidential nomination Mitt Romney. Santorum, who met with Romney in Pittsburgh Friday, told supporters the meeting was "productive," and that he was able to fully determine where the likely GOP nominee stood on a wide swath of issues.
CNN: Referendum banning same-sex marriage in spotlight as 3 states hold primaries
A referendum that would constitutionally ban same-sex marriages in North Carolina is in the spotlight Tuesday, as three states hold primaries. Amendment One would alter North Carolina's constitution to say that "marriage between one man and one woman is the only domestic legal union that shall be valid or recognized in this State."
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