Republican Mitt Romney quits U.S. race
Republican candidate Mitt Romney dropped out of the U.S. presidential race on Thursday, making Sen. John McCain the all-but-certain nominee of his party to face the Democrats' choice in November's election. "I feel I have to now stand aside, for...
Republican candidate Mitt
Romney dropped out of the U.S. presidential race on Thursday,
making Sen. John McCain the all-but-certain nominee of his
party to face the Democrats' choice in November's election.
"I feel I have to now stand aside, for our party and for
our country," the former Massachusetts governor said in a
speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.
"No, no," shouted some of the participants at the
conference, many of whom are disenchanted at the idea of having
McCain as the party's choice.
The writing was on the wall for Romney after he lost 14 of
21 states on Tuesday, the biggest day of U.S. presidential
voting ahead of November's election, while Arizona Sen. McCain
romped to coast-to-coast wins and cemented his position as
front-runner.
Romney's withdrawal all but sealed the Republican
nomination for McCain, the 71-year-old former Vietnam prisoner
of war who has been lambasted by the right for moderate views
on illegal immigration and votes against tax cuts.
Romney dropped out of the U.S. presidential race on Thursday,
making Sen. John McCain the all-but-certain nominee of his
party to face the Democrats' choice in November's election.
"I feel I have to now stand aside, for our party and for
our country," the former Massachusetts governor said in a
speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference.
"No, no," shouted some of the participants at the
conference, many of whom are disenchanted at the idea of having
McCain as the party's choice.
The writing was on the wall for Romney after he lost 14 of
21 states on Tuesday, the biggest day of U.S. presidential
voting ahead of November's election, while Arizona Sen. McCain
romped to coast-to-coast wins and cemented his position as
front-runner.
Romney's withdrawal all but sealed the Republican
nomination for McCain, the 71-year-old former Vietnam prisoner
of war who has been lambasted by the right for moderate views
on illegal immigration and votes against tax cuts.