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Todd Akin’s list of allies has grown yet again. Akin this morning won the endorsement of the Senate Conservatives Fund (SCF), the PAC founded by influential conservative Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina. DeMint himself endorsed Akin Wednesday in a joint announcement with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum.

Florida governor Jeb Bush, Sen. Rand Paul and Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin were added to the growing list of convention speakers released by the Republican National Committee. Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, is the first of Mitt Romney's former rivals for the 2012 Republican nomination to be announced as a speaker. Paul, a Kentucky senator, is a Tea Party favorite and the son of Rep. Ron Paul, who also ran for the White House.

Rick Santorum defended his late-night e-mail endorsing former GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney... But the timing -- and the fact that Santorum didn't get around to saying he was backing Romney until the 13th paragraph of the letter -- sent a message that Santorum's endorsement was tepid. He dismissed that idea.

Rick Santorum and Marco Rubio are the top two choices among Republican voters as Mitt Romney's vice presidential running mate, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday.

Bowing to the inevitable, Rick Santorum quit the presidential campaign Tuesday, clearing the way for Mitt Romney to claim the Republican nomination. Santorum, appearing with his wife and family in his home state of Pennsylvania, told supporters the race for him was over, but the fight to defeat President Barack Obama would go on.

Although Rick Santorum won North Dakota's Republican presidential caucuses on March 6, the Associated Press reports that at last weekend's state party convention Mitt Romney ended up with the most supporters among the state's 28 delegates to the Republican National Convention.

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum, in what may be a grim development for his campaign, has lost the lead in his home state of Pennsylvania to front-runner Mitt Romney, according to a poll released on Thursday.

A Rick Santorum TV ad morphs an image of Obama into Romney, making the point that there are no policy differences between the two.

The U.S. Senate's top Republican called on his party to unite behind leading presidential candidate Mitt Romney on Sunday as rival Rick Santorum vowed to stay in the race beyond a likely defeat in Tuesday's Wisconsin primary.

As he struggles to find a balance between being an underdog and an embittered also-ran, Rick Santorum has been trying to modulate the fiery language that has been a potent campaign weapon.