Romney Takes Major Step Toward Republican Nomination
March 21, 2012
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, right, and his wife Ann wave to a crowd in Schaumburg, Illinois, after Romney won the Illinois Republican presidential primary, March 20, 2012.
Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney took another step toward clinching the Republican Party's presidential nomination Tuesday with a convincing win in the Illinois primary. Romney defeated his main rival, former Pennsylvania senator Rick Santorum, by a 12 point margin and padded his lead in the all-important delegate count in his quest to be the Republican nominee.
Mitt Romney continues to win the key primary battles with Rick Santorum as he moves ever closer to becoming the presumptive Republican candidate against President Barack Obama in the November election.
Romney got another boost in the wake of his victory in Illinois when he won the endorsement of former Florida governor Jeb Bush. Bush issued a written statement that said it was time Republicans unite behind Romney as their nominee.
In his speeches, Romney mentions Santorum less and less and focuses most of his attention on drawing a contrast with President Obama.
"The genius of America is that we nurture those dreams and the dreamers," said Romney. "We honor them and yes, we reward them. That is part of what is uniquely brilliant about America. But day by day, job-killing regulation by job-killing regulation, bureaucrat by bureaucrat, this president is crushing the dream and the dreamers and I will make sure that finally ends!"
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