Carnegie, Pennsylvania (CNN) - One day after suffering a trio of primary losses, Rick Santorum fired off a political warning shot to Mitt Romney's supporters: essentially saying that negative attacks won't work in his home state and drawing a contrast between Romney and his own "blue collar" appeal.

"We have to win here. And we plan on winning here," the former Pennsylvania senator reiterated to reporters outside a diner in Carnegie on Wednesday.
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Green Bay, Wisconsin (CNN) – One day after it was revealed that Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney recently held a "secret" meeting, the former House speaker publicly divulged the "essence" of private conversations he's had with Romney and Rick Santorum.

On Friday, Gingrich did not specifically answer what he and Romney discussed in a private meeting last weekend in Louisiana. Instead, Gingrich told reporters at his Green Bay, Wisconsin, headquarters that he, Romney and Santorum have chatted and have made a broad political agreement.
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(CNN) - On Thursday, Newt Gingrich reacted to one of the most coveted political endorsements of this presidential cycle: Florida Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's backing of Mitt Romney.

"It makes sense," Gingrich told CNN during a flight to Wisconsin. The former House speaker is set to campaign in Milwaukee later Thursday and has scheduled events in the Badger state both Friday and Saturday.
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Washington (CNN) - Newt Gingrich may have a new political focus, but the focus of his ire appears to be the same.

At various times during a roughly 50-minute appearance at Georgetown University on Wednesday, the Republican presidential candidate re-stated familiar attacks on the news media, President Obama and critics.
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Annapolis, Maryland (CNN) – On Tuesday, Newt Gingrich reiterated a date when he might potentially drop out of the presidential race. But the candidate's stance came with one major condition.

Romney has to clinch.
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Shreveport, Louisiana (CNN) - If Rick Santorum has his way, the image of Mitt Romney as a politician who shakes and erases his policy positions will stay etched in voters' minds.

Case in point: on Friday in Shreveport, Louisiana, the former Pennsylvania senator not only kept alive the two-day old controversy – he drew bold new lines around it.
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(CNN) – Ahead of his state's GOP caucuses on Saturday, the Washington Republican Party chair on Friday predicted a win for either Mitt Romney or Ron Paul.

The turnout required for a win can be bolstered by a well-organized ground campaign, and Kirby Wilbur told CNN that Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich "don't have the infrastructure, the ground game to follow up on turning the vote out."
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Pasco, Washington (CNN) – Rick Santorum continued to cast himself as a scrappy fighter against a mighty Republican "establishment" late Thursday – even lumping together former presidents and former presidential hopefuls into a losing clan of Republican moderates.

"You have an opportunity, here in Washington state, to join me …To say we want a conservative nominee for the Republican Party in the fall," Santorum told hundreds of supporters in Pasco, Washington, ahead of the state's caucuses on Saturday.
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(CNN) - Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum will receive Secret Service protection this week, a source familiar with the situation told CNN.

At this time, GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney is the sole candidate granted protection.
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Tucson, Arizona (CNN) – Speaking to a tea party audience on Wednesday, Rick Santorum mocked fellow Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and led the overwhelmingly friendly audience in a chorus of catcalls against President Barack Obama.

As Santorum harshly criticized the president on the economy and foreign policy during the speech in Tucson, audience members could be heard calling the president a "liar," "arrogant" – and repeatedly booing his name.

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