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What's Happening: A Growing Glut of GOP Candidates

Are there too many elephants in the room? America won’t decide for months, but Rick Santorum and George Pataki just became the latest politicians to formally seek the Republican presidential nomination.

Santorum, the 2012 GOP primary runner-up, in Pennsylvania on Wednesday, while on the road in New Hampshire on Thursday. They join a slate of candidates that already includes Mike Huckabee, Ben Carson, Carly Fiorina, Marco Rubio, Rand Paul, and Ted Cruz. That list is expected to grow when Jeb Bush, Lindsey Graham, Scott Walker, and others jump in.

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