Myrtle Beach, South Carolina (CNN) – Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman will drop out of the race on Monday and endorse Mitt Romney, a senior official with the former Utah governor's campaign told CNN.
"Gov. Huntsman did not want to stand in the way of the candidate best prepared to beat (President) Barack Obama and turn our economy around. That's Mitt Romney," the campaign official said.
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(CNN) - South Carolina's largest newspaper, The State, endorsed former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman Sunday, just six days before the state's Republican presidential primary.
The paper's editorial board stated that while frontrunner Mitt Romney is "more appealing" than the rest of the GOP field, Huntsman is "more principled, has a far more impressive resume and offers a significantly more important message."
Tune in Thursday at 8 p.m. ET for the CNN/Southern Republican Presidential Debate hosted by John King and follow it on Twitter at #CNNDebate. For real-time coverage of the South Carolina primary, go to CNNPolitics.com and on the CNN apps for iPhone, iPad, Android or other phones.
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(CNN) - The race for the Republican presidential nomination is on track to break new ground: For the first time in modern political history - some say ever - the GOP nominee could be someone who is not a Protestant Christian.
Front-runner Mitt Romney is Mormon, as is Jon Huntsman. Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are Catholics.
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(CNN) - Two of Mitt Romney's opponents for the 2012 GOP nomination took heed Wednesday of former President Ronald Reagan's so-called 11th Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum both avoided jumping onto the pile of critics who say Mitt Romney destroyed jobs and bankrupted businesses during his time as CEO of Bain Capital, though it wasn't easy for them to throw praise at the Republican frontrunner.
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(CNN) – Jon Huntsman got the third ticket out of New Hampshire, but it's unclear how far that ticket will take him.
Huntsman finished third in Tuesday's New Hampshire primary, a state in which he had staked his entire campaign, finishing behind former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and Texas Rep. Ron Paul.
FULL STORY(CNN) - Jon Huntsman said Tuesday he would push forward and compete in the next state on the GOP nominating calendar, South Carolina.
Huntsman, who staked his entire presidential campaign on New Hampshire, was projected by CNN to come in third in the Granite State's first-in-the-nation primary.
"We go south from here," Huntsman said in an exclusive interview with CNN Political Correspondent Jim Acosta.
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(CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman will not appear on the Arizona primary ballot, according to the secretary of state's office.
Secretary of State Spokesman Matthew Robert told CNN Huntsman's petitions were not notarized and therefore rejected by the office. Monday was the deadline for candidates to file paperwork to appear on the Feb. 28 GOP primary ballots.
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(CNN) - Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman finished on top of the iconic Dixville Notch midnight vote on Tuesday by each capturing two of the six Republican ballots cast.
Romney and Huntsman finished just ahead of the one vote that Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul won.
Exeter, New Hampshire (CNN) - Jon Huntsman returned to the site of his June presidential announcement to make his final appeal to Granite State voters ahead of Tuesday’s first-in-the-nation primary.
The former Republican governor, who has staked his White House ambitions on a strong showing in the state, told a packed town hall in Exeter Monday that he has become a "shameless salesman" on behalf of his candidacy as he crisscrosses the state asking for votes.
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Manchester, New Hampshire (CNN) - In the lead up to voting in New Hampshire Tuesday, Jon Huntsman released a new ad that retools statements from Sunday's debate to hit frontrunner Mitt Romney and prove his patriotism.
"He criticized me while he was out raising money for serving my country in China, yes, under a Democrat, like my two sons are doing in the United States Navy," Huntsman is quoted saying of rival Romney in the spot. "I want to be very clear with the people here in New Hampshire and this country: I will always put my country first."
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