Rick Santorum interrupted participation in election events due to his daughter's illness

One of the applicants for the nomination of the US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, Rick Santorum, refused to participate in Florida's pre -election events planned on Sunday. Three days before the next primaries, he left the state to visit a sick daughter.

According to Reuters, the decision is associated with the hospitalization of the three -year -old daughter of Santorum Isabella in a children's hospital in Philadelphia. According to representatives of the politician, he will return to Florida as soon as such an opportunity present, Radio Liberty reports.

In Florida, on January 31, the next republican primaries will be held. The greatest support for voters is now with Mitt Romni and Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum in third place.

On Sunday, it also became known that the ex-owner of the Godfather's Pizza pizzeria network, a former US presidential candidate from the Republican Party, Herman Kane called on his supporters to support the ex-spiker of the House of Newton Gingrich in the presidential election.

The businessman announced the termination of the election campaign in December, after a series of accusations from former employees of sexual harassment, RIA Novosti recalls. Then Kane said that he would take a pause in order to think about which of the candidates who continue the campaign he is going to support.