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Santorum: Everybody Get Out

YEAH RIGHT

Jokes that it’d be easier.

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GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum said there’s an easy way for him to win the nomination. “I’d like everybody to get out,” he said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning. He’s joking, of course: he needs about 60 percent of the remaining delegates to win. He fell short of calling on former House speaker Newt Gingrich to drop out. “The speaker can stay as long as he wants,” Santorum said, though his super PAC has run ads calling for Gingrich to end his bid. “We’re in a great position now as we go forward,” Santorum said.

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