Republican Tancredo drops 2008 bid, backs Romney
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DES MOINES, Iowa  - Rep. Tom Tancredo of Colorado, a strong supporter of tougher immigration laws, dropped his long-shot Republican presidential bid on Thursday and endorsed former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney.
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SIMI VALLEY, California  - Republican Rudy Giuliani and Democrat John Edwards abandoned their failing U.S. presidential bids on Wednesday, narrowing the race in both parties to two main candidates ahead of next week's multi-state round of voting.
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Kansas Republican Sen. Sam Brownback announced late Friday afternoon that he is ending his longshot bid in the 2008 presidential campaign, citing a lack of financial resources.
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Most presidential candidates have at least a few policy priorities. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) has one chief goal: ending illegal immigration. His campaign slogan is simple yet harsh: "Secure the borders. Deport those who don't belong. Make sure they never come back."
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Brownback will drop out of the 2008 presidential campaign on Friday, people close to the Kansas senator said Thursday
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Mitt Romney says the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination will come down to Rudy Giuliani and a more conservative challenger. Like Mitt Romney. It's no surprise that Giuliani is doing well in national polls of Republicans, Romney said Friday, because candidates with more conservative views on social issues such as abortion and gay rights are splitting the support of like-minded voters.
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Rudy Giuliani, who sought to make the leap from New York mayor to the White House, bowed out of the Republican presidential contest Wednesday and endorsed front-runner and longtime friend John McCain.
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All eight Democratic hopefuls and a lone Republican candidate, Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo, addressed the NAACP convention
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Mitt Romney said Wednesday that John McCain is out of the conservative mainstream, as the rivals for the Republican presidential nomination vied for votes in next week's multistate primary.
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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has decided to pull his advertising from South Carolina, where he was hoping to take on Mike Huckabee and John McCain, and from Florida, where Rudy Giuliani has been spending time and money.
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U.S. Republican Sen. Sam Brownback  of Kansas, nearly out of cash and lagging badly in opinion  polls, is expected to drop out of the 2008 presidential race,  party and campaign sources said on Thursday.
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The Republican PartyÃ¢ÂÂs effort to reclaim the congressional majorities it lost in the 2006 midterm elections was never going to be easy. But the past month has been a particularly rough patch for Republican campaign officials, with Minnesota Rep. Jim RamstadÃ¢ÂÂs announcement Monday that he will not run in 2008 the latest in a string of almost uniformly unpleasant news for the GOP.
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Republican Sam Brownback of  Kansas, a two-term U.S. senator whose presidential campaign  failed to draw money or widespread support from an intended  base of religious conservatives, dropped out of the 2008 White  House race on Friday.
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ItÃ¢ÂÂs the White House or bust for Rep. Tom Tancredo, the long-shot Republican presidential candidate who has decided to forgo running for re-election next year in ColoradoÃ¢ÂÂs 6th Congressional District.
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Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is set to endorse former rival John McCain, reports say.
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Conservatives and voters troubled by abortion and illegal immigration were backing Mitt Romney as he fought for victory in Florida's Republican presidential primary on Tuesday. Lining up behind John McCain's bid were party moderates, Hispanics and the state's numerous older voters.
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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney drops out of the Republican presidential race. Romney is considered to have run one of the most technologically sophisticated campaigns.