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Rick Santorum withholds support for Mitt Romney during exit speech

By Callum Borchers

 |  Globe Correspondent  

  April 10, 2012

Rick Santorum uttered many kind words during his exit speech Tuesday afternoon, but not one was directed at Mitt Romney, the man whose path to the Republican presidential nomination Santorum cleared. Santorum consistently refused throughout his run to say he would endorse Romney if he failed to win the GOP nomination, and he made no mention of his rival on Tuesday. Santorum left the stage without answering a reporter’s question about whether he would get behind Romney now.

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