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Rick Santorum jumps into U.S. 2016 presidential race

Xinhua, May 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

Former U.S. senator Rick Santorum said Wednesday that he is running for the 2016 presidential race.

I will stand for the principle that every life matters," Santorum, a Republican, said during a running announcement gathering in his hometown, Cabot, Pennsylvania. He promised to create jobs for American families.

Santorum also vowed to defeat the ISIS. He said that the Obama- Clinton team do not understand "peace comes from strength". "We will defeat them (ISIS)," he said.

"Today, I announce my candidacy for President of the United States," Santorum tweeted Wednesday on his Twitter account.

"Rick Santorum is the conservative choice to take on and defeat the Clinton Machine," wrote on his official website.

Santorum, 57, was a senator from Pennsylvania between 1995 to 2007. The move marks a second bid in the presidential race for the Christian conservative, who won a reputation as a strong social conservative in Congress, where he opposed same-sex marriage and the teaching of evolution in schools.

Santorum is the seventh Republican to formally declare a presidential bid. Analysts believes that he will face competition for Christian conservative voters from former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee and others. Some believed that he could even be excluded from the early Republican debates, which will begin in August. Endite