Fresh off of a three state win, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum wasted no time to get back on to the campaign trail and ingratiate himself with Texas voters. According to the Houston Chronicle:
Buoyed by unexpected victories in three states on Tuesday night, Rick Santorum swept into North Texas on Wednesday, where he sought to build momentum by assuring Republican primary voters that he and not Newt Gingrich was the true and reliable conservative in the presidential race.
Santorum began his day by appealing to his base, evangelical social conservatives in a part of the state that had been Rick Perry country until recently. In a church in McKinney on the morning, he told a group of Dallas-area ministers that he always had been an outspoken foe of abortion and same-sex marriage and always would be. The ministers responded with prayers on Santorum’s behalf and a ritual laying on of hands.
The former Pennsylvania senator also came to Texas — in his words, “the conservative epicenter of this country” — with his hand out. Between public events in the Dallas area, he spent a five-hour block of time raising money. His campaign reported Internet donations totaling $250,000 in the wake of his Tuesday night victories in Missouri, Colorado and Minnesota.
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