<b>Full coverage:</b> Rick Santorum
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Rick Santorum
Fmr. Pennsylvania senator | Age 53
Declared June 6, 2011
A hero to many on the right for his social and fiscal conservative stances, Santorum will have to battle and outshine better-known Republicans — including several who carry the hard-right conservative banner.
He badly lost his 2006 Senate reelection bid in Pennsylvania, an important swing state, raising questions about his chances nationwide.
Santorum is married with seven children.
— Associated Press
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Rick Santorum has stoically deflected the jeers of pro-gay marriage young Republicans in New Hampshire.
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Mitt Romney has claimed a narrow lead over Ron Paul in Iowa, according to a new CNN/Time poll.
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The Family Leader, an influential political organization among the religious voters who dominate the Iowa caucuses, is not endorsing a candidate in the presidential contest, but two prominent evangelical leaders backed Rick Santorum on Tuesday.
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Rick Santorum will report a summer fundraising total slightly higher than the $582,000 that his presidential campaign raised last spring, the former Pennsylvania senator said Sunday in an interview with Fox News.
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Rick Santorum launched his White House bid from ancestral turf Monday, imploring an enthusiastic crowd of several hundred to join his fight.FOR THE RECORD An earlier version of this online article described Ron Paul as a former Texas congressman.
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Presidential hopeful and former Pennsylvania Sen.
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If the Republican presidential nomination was awarded to the candidate with the most persistence, former Pennsylvania Sen.
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Rick Santorum returns to where he first struck political gold to officially announce what everyone already knows -- he’s running for president.
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Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator who was suspended from a paid gig with Fox News Channel in March, returned to the network Wednesday night to announce that he was forming an exploratory committee to run for president.
