Report: Romney backer to flip to Santorum in Ohio
By MAGGIE HABERMAN |
2/17/12 11:34 AM EST
Buzzfeed teeases out the major announcement the Rick Santorum campaign just announced:
A top Ohio supporter of Governor Mitt Romney will switch sides and endorse Rick Santorum in Columbus this afternoon, a campaign source said.
The source declined to make public the identity of the switching surrogate.
While Ohio Gov. John Kasich remains neutral, Romney has the support of a handful of top current and former Ohio officials, including Attorney General Mike DeWine, Rep. Jim Renacci, and former Senator George Voinovich.
A spokeswoman for DeWine, Lisa Peterson Hackley, said "I can neither confirm nor deny" that he is the switcher, and declined to say what the State Attorney General will be doing at 2:00 p.m.
DeWine and Santorum have a relationship dating back to their days in the Senate, which is why he would be the likeliest of the group. If that does prove true, it will be a huge boost to Santorum, and another very hard-to-spin headline for Romney.
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