According to former Sen. Rick Santorum, Republicans have “a real opportunity” to “pull off a surprise” in the Keystone State this year.
He has kept a fairly low profile since his speech for Mitt Romney at the Republican Convention this August, but during an interview with TheDC, Santorum said: “I’ll be in Pennsylvania next week, and I’ll be doing some things for [Romney].”
(Santorum is also out with a new book this month, titled “American Patriots.”)
When asked if the state was merely “fool’s gold” for Republicans, who might once again be lured into throwing away their money on a hopeless cause, Santorum dismissed the characterization, saying:
You have two races in Pennsylvania, not just one. If this was just the president’s race and I saw the numbers that I was seeing, I’d say, ‘Ah, I’m not so sure I believe that.’ But there’s a senate race going in on Pennsylvania right now, too, that’s between an incumbent Democratic senator and a challenger — and he was given no chance to win this race. And his numbers are even a little better than Romney’s numbers. So I do believe that Pennsylvania has moved.
“I don’t know whether Governor Romney can win Pennsylvania,” Santorum added, “but Pennsylvania’s not the same state it was four years ago.”
(Listen to my full conversation with Rick Santorum here.)