Mitt Romney’s campaign has called on his Republican rivals to heed “the basic principles of math” and quit the 2012 nomination race before they irreparably damage the party’s chances of beating Barack Obama.
The former Massachusetts governor won six of the 10 states up for grabs on Super Tuesday, the biggest day of the Republican campaign so far, and is projected to have secured 415 of the 1,144 delegates needed to win the nomination.
Romney campaign officials yesterday maintained that his two main rivals, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich, would need “an act of God” to win enough delegates to take the nomination with the pair projected to have 176 and 105 respectively.