Santorum Will Announce Later This Month

Rick Santorum told Fox News that he will announce whether he will run for president in 2016 on May 27 in Butler, Pennsylvania where he grew up.

Said Santorum: “It was a great campaign last time. We were clearly the underdog and we are starting out as looking at this race and we would be in the same position and so we are very comfortable there.”

First Read: “Santorum clearly doesn’t want to be pigeon-holed only as a social conservative this time around. He’s been spending more time talking up his blue-collar economic populism and foreign policy hawkishness than on cultivating the culture warrior-image that he was originally known for. But it was still mostly his values-voters pitch that helped him break through in Iowa in 2012, and that lane has gotten significantly more crowded this cycle.”