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GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (Reuters) – Republican presidential frontrunner Mitt Romney on Monday focused his campaign’s firepower on Rick Santorum to head off the former senator’s surge in two of three states with nominating contests this week.
Coming off a runaway victory in Nevada on Saturday, Romney hopes to cement his front-runner status on Tuesday in caucuses and primaries in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri – the next battlegrounds in the state-by-state fight to pick a Republican challenger to face Democratic President Barack Obama in the November 6 election.
Romney’s attention has been focused heavily on former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich but he is no longer a big threat in this week’s contests.
Instead, the focus of Romney’s well-funded attack machine turned to Santorum, a former U.S. senator from Pennsylvania who pipped Romney in the first contest of the 2012 Republican campaign in Iowa but has since faded from view.
Pollsters said Santorum, who has been vying with Gingrich to be the
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