Santorum: 'We're in this race'
(CNN) - Rick Santorum vowed to stay in the race Friday, saying his lighter-than-usual campaign efforts in Florida were no indication of plans to drop out of the running.
"There hasn't even been a discussion, not even approaching a discussion to discuss a discussion, as to whether to get out of this race," Santorum said on CNN's "The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer." "We're in this race."
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Puerto Rico gov backs Romney
Cape Canaveral, Florida (CNN) - Puerto Rico Gov. Luis Fortuno has endorsed Mitt Romney, in a boon to the GOP candidate's efforts to woo Florida's Latino voters ahead of Tuesday's primary.
Puerto Rico's top official will campaign with Romney at an event Friday evening in Orlando.
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Gingrich ad rails against Romney's integrity
(CNN) - Newt Gingrich's campaign released a new television ad in Florida Friday, questioning Republican presidential rival Mitt Romney's character over statements he made in Thursday's CNN Florida Republican Presidential Debate.
In the ad, "What kind of man?", the campaign paints the former Massachusetts governor as an untrustworthy, flip-flopping politician, just four days before the Sunshine State's critical primary.
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Space execs hope to rocket Romney
(CNN) - Eight former space executives threw their support behind Mitt Romney Friday, hoping to boost the candidate in a state with enormous stakes in America's space program.
In an open letter, the leaders said Romney was the candidate best positioned to reignite a program they said had languished under President Barack Obama.
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Obama: 'Nobody envies rich people'
(CNN) - President Barack Obama hit back Friday at a charge lobbed at him from Republican presidential candidates, saying the suggestion he's inciting class warfare was flat wrong.
Speaking to Democratic lawmakers at a retreat on Maryland's Eastern Shore, Obama said he would actively rebut that charge in the coming election year.
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Romney faces Medicare attacks in Florida
(CNN) - GOP presidential front-runners Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich barnstormed across Florida on Friday, trying to rally supporters and break away in the polls four days before what is shaking up to be a pivotal primary in that state.
The morning after a heated CNN/Florida Republican Party debate in Jacksonville, a pro-Gingrich super PAC hit the airwaves with a television ad essentially accusing Romney of committing Medicare fraud. One of Gingrich's top Florida backers, former state Attorney General Bill McCollum, also raised questions about Romney's past service on the board of Damon Corp., a Massachusetts medical testing company that pleaded guilty in 1996 to billing Medicare fraudulently and that paid a $119 million fine.
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Huntsman takes on new gig
(CNN) - Former presidential White House hopeful Jon Huntsman was named chairman of the Huntsman Cancer Foundation, the Utah-based organization announced Thursday.
Huntsman, former Utah governor and U.S. Ambassador to China, will replace his father, Jon M. Huntsman, who will now serve as chairman emeritus of the foundation.
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Romney's elusive net worth calculation
New York (CNNMoney) - Exactly how much is Mitt Romney worth? Hard to say.
The estimates, even from the candidate and his own campaign, are all over the map.
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(CNN) - In the first of this two-part edition of Explain it to me, Tom Foreman explains how presidential hopefuls raise money.
Poll: Gingrich, Romney tied in Arizona
(CNN) – While the Republican presidential candidates now have their eyes set on Florida's Tuesday primary, a new poll indicates a tie for first place in the Feb. 28 Arizona primary.
Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich both took in 32% of support among likely Republican primary voters, according to a new survey released Friday by the American Research Group.
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