Posted on 12/19/2007 12:09:02 PM PST by pissant
Tom Tancredo has scheduled a press conference in Des Moines tomorrow afternoon to make a "major announcement regarding the campaign," according to a media advisory his campaign sent out today.
Asked whether Tancredo intended to drop out of the race, his congressional spokesman, TQ Houlton, said he didn't know. But Houlton didn't affirm that Tancredo was staying in and directed calls to the campaign.
A campaign spokesman didn't immediately reply to an email or voice mail.
Tancredo will appear at the Des Moines Marriott tomorrow at 2:00 Central, according to the advisory.
Despite the fervor Iowa Republicans have over Tancredo's pet issue, immigration, the Colorado congressman has not seen a commensurate bump in the polls. And even though he's run a couple of provocative ads warning about the security threat of illegal immigration, his numbers have remained in the low single-digits.
Perhaps most notably, Tancredo's close friend, Rep. Steve King, passed over his colleague and threw his support behind Fred Thompson this week. King and Tancredo have worked closely on immigration and many in Iowa thought King would not endorse as long as Tancredo was in the race.
A source close to King said they knew of the press conference for tomorrow but didn't know what Tancredo would announce.
Boy, you are really all over this, aren’t you :>)
If Tanc endorses Dukakabee I’m sending him a head of lettuce.
I'd start with whether he had any reservations about winning :>)
Hoping for a Hunter endorsement from Tanc. It would make up for him getting in the race in the first place and stealing some of Duncan’s thunder.
fwiw, I’m leaning toward guessing he’ll announce a 3rd-party run....
Maybe he saw Hunter on TV yesterday...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/1207/Tancredo_to_get_out.html#comments
I think so too...any avalanche starts with a few snowflakes.
Or Hunter.
Apparently, he has lots of those.
Judging by your link, and one or two posts on the other thread, my guess is that Steve King’s endorsement of Thompson is the opening Tancredo wanted/decided to use to announce his resignation, and then himself openly endorsing Thompson.
It would be interesting to learn exactly what role King has played in this.
Me too. I’ll be suprised if he does not support Hunter.
I hope so. It's time for conservatives to stop frittering away their support on one issue/fringe candidates and start backing Fred, the solid conservative choice among the frontrunners. Tancredo and Hunter just need to give place - they're not going anywhere, despite the gusto and chest-thumping of their supporters. Time for conservatives to unite behind FDT. Once Huckabee implodes (and he will), much of his support ought to flow back to the real conservative among the front-runners.
I see no reason for him to endorse Fred.
I can’t imagine him doing so.
Tom Tancredo is the very best conservative in the race. I’m very sorry his campaign has gone nowhere, or I’d be backing him ahead of Fred. I hope Tom endorses Fred, and I hope Duncan winds up doing the same.
Hunter is better than Tanc on many issues, including illegal immigration, his pet.
This would show class and party loyalty. I wish some others would do the same.
Rep. Tancredo would make a good president. The time is not right for him. Perhaps, there is another task for which he will be called.
He is better than any of the Dem candidates.
“I just hope he doesn’t go off the deep end like Gilchrist did.”
I don’t think he will, but you never know these days. So many strange things have been happening.
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