Republican Tancredo Drops Bid For White House
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – Rep. Tom Tancredo announced Thursday he is dropping out of the race for the GOP presidential nomination and endorsing rival Mitt Romney.
Tancredo, a five-term congressman from Colorado, has consistently polled at the bottom of the nine-person Republican field. He based his campaign on fighting illegal immigration and has run television ads that link lax border control to terrorist attacks, rape and other crimes.
He announced his withdrawal in downtown Des Moines two weeks before Iowa begins the presidential nominating process with the state’s precinct caucuses.
