Rick Santorum leaves New Hampshire, joins Mitt Romney in South Carolina
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum speaks during a ‘Faith, Family and Freedom’ Town Hall at Merrimack Valley Railroad in Northfield, NH, on Jan. 5, 2012.
Rick Santorum is temporarily leaving New Hampshire for South Carolina in the hopes his socially conservative platform will gain more support ahead of South Carolina primary on Jan. 21, USA Today reported.
Santorum headed to Greenville, S.C. this morning and is planning to accept an endorsement of prominent evangelical Gary Bauer. Santorum will return to New Hampshire later today, however.
Santorum is trailing behind Romney’s 30 percent lead in South Carolina at 19 percent, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling.
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Romney has been enjoying wide leads in recent polls but is expected to have a harder time in South Carolina among social conservatives and evangelicals.