12:02 p.m. | Updated Former Senator Rick Santorum made it official on Monday, announcing first to ABC News and then to a crowd at the courthouse in Somerset, Pa., that he would join the field seeking the Republican nomination for president.
?We?re ready to announce that we are going to be in this race, and we?re in it to win,? Mr. Santorum told ABC?s ?Good Morning America.?
Later, during his speech in Somerset, he praised the Tea Party and derided President Obama as someone who did not understand the greatness of America.
?People have understood that something is wrong,? he said, adding that Mr. Obama is ?devaluing our dollar and he?s devaluing our other currency, our moral currency.?
He added, ?If you?re going to sum up the mission of America, it?s to make sure each and every person is free.?
At one point, a young woman in the audience appeared to faint from the heat. Mr. Santorum called for emergency workers, handed over water and stepped down from the podium. As she was carried away, he asked everyone to ?say a prayer for that young lady.?
His announcement came a day after he won a straw poll among conservative activists in New Hampshire, where he took 37 percent of 120 votes; his nearest competitor, Representative Ron Paul of Texas, drew 12 percent.
Mr. Santorum is so well known as a crusader against abortion and same-sex marriage that it may surprise some voters and the news media to learn that his interests in the Senate also included national security, foreign policy and entitlement programs. But social issues are the ones that fire up the segment of the Republican primary base that Mr. Santorum most appeals to. And he has yet to fully address the issues that likely voters in a general election tell pollsters are most important: jobs and the economy.
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