Santorum: GOP race ‘very wide open’

Former GOP presidential contender Rick Santorum says the race for his party’s nomination is “very wide open.”

“There’s still many races to go. It depends on how it all plays out,” Santorum, a former Pennsylvania senator, told reporters at the Capitol on Thrursday.

{mosads}”If Donald Trump continues to do well and sort of stays on the path that he’s on, I think he’ll be the nominee,” he continued. “If he doesn’t, then things are gonna get complicated.”

Santorum also suggested that delegates could tap a nominee who isn’t currently in the race.

Santorum said he wasn’t backing any of the current candidates, but would support the eventual Republican nominee. He declined to say if Donald Trump would be a successful general election candidate, but pledged his support to help the GOP nominee win.

Santorum dropped out of the 2016 race shortly after he won less than 1 percent of the vote during the Feb. 1 Iowa caucuses, a contest he won in the 2012 cycle.

He endorsed Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), but struggled to name his Senate accomplishments in a television interview. Rubio dropped out on March 15.

Santorum, who served in Congress from 1995-2007, said he was at the Capitol because he was “just trying to help a friend out with an issue … a little good Samaritan work.”