Politics & Government
What Does Mitt Romney's Victory Mean to Hillsborough?
The presumptive GOP nominee hit four issues particularly hard in Florida in January.
Mitt Romney is the presumptive Republican presidential nominee after Rick Santorum bowed out of the race Tuesday afternoon, according to a report in The Huffington Post.
That could mean a renewed focus on the following four issues:
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- National security
- Unemployment
- Health care
- Energy
in a Florida campaign stop before the primary in January. (See Romney's 12-minute speech at the Pinellas County rally in the video above.)
Romney went on to win the state primary, with nearly 48 percent of the vote in Hillsborough County.
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