Boston Globe Reports: Former Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann today denied any plans to endorse frontrunner Mitt Romney when he visits Minnesota this afternoon, despite a Globe online post suggesting the possibility.
The Minnesota congresswoman noted she would be in Washington while Romney was appearing in Eagan, Minn. She also said that while she has had discussions with her formal rivals, she has no immediate plans to endorse any of them.
“Let me be absolutely clear – there are absolutely no negotiations between me and the Romney campaign regarding any pending endorsement of Governor Romney,” Bachmann said in statement that also labeled the story “completely false” and called on the Globe to retract it. “I continue to speak with all the candidates and plan on uniting behind the presumptive nominee.”
In a post early today, Boston.com noted that instead of heading directly for Nevada or Maine, the next two states to vote in the GOP contest, Romney was instead flying to Minnesota for what was billed as a “grassroots rally.”
The post said the camps of the two former rivals had been in conversation in recent days about securing the candidate’s endorsement by the Tea Party favorite and forceful public speaker.
Without identifying its source for the information, the post said that such an endorsement would add to the impression of Romney consolidating the GOP base after rebounding in the Florida primary from his loss South Carolina 10 days earlier.
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