Santorum on Romney in NH: There’s going to be a rematch. 
 
 Wolf Blitzer and Piers Morgan spoke with former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, after the polls in Iowa closed. 
 
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 PIERS MORGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Let me ask you something. You must be feeling a bit like Rocky Balboa tonight. How are you going to knock out Mitt Romney? 
 
 SANTORUM: Well, there’s going to be a rematch. And we’re going to go to New Hampshire and take him on, and we’re going to run a campaign talking about my vision for this country. 
 
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 BLITZER: I assume, Senator, you heard that John McCain is going to endorse Mitt Romney in New Hampshire tomorrow. 
 
 SANTORUM: Yes, that’s fine. You know, I would have expected that. In fact, I’m surprised he hasn’t done it earlier. But you know, John McCain is a great man. And he is someone who it was an honor to serve with. He has served this country and sacrificed more than frankly anybody that I’ve had the privilege to know in any way. And so I commend Governor Romney for getting his endorsement, but I’m not surprised by it. I mean, John is a more moderate member of the Republican team, and I think he fits in with Newt’s — excuse me, with Mitt’s view of the world. And I, you know, I wish him the very best. And again, I have nothing but respect for John McCain. 
 
 ### ||||| DES MOINES — Senator John McCain of Arizona is expected to endorse Mitt Romney on Wednesday in New Hampshire, giving the former Massachusetts governor a boost at a critical moment in the campaign. 
 
 Mr. McCain will travel with Mr. Romney on the candidate’s bus in the Granite State and will endorse his one-time rival, according to a person familiar with the campaign’s plans. 
 
 One of the scheduled stops for Mr. Romney on the New Hampshire tour on Wednesday is at the Peterborough Town House, one of Mr. McCain’s favorite places to hold town hall meetings when he was a candidate for president. 
 
 An endorsement by Mr. McCain would essentially return a political favor. Mr. Romney endorsed Mr. McCain in 2008 after dropping out of the race when it became clear that Mr. McCain would win. 
 
 But Mr. McCain’s support may prove especially crucial. 
 
 New Hampshire fell in love with Mr. McCain twice — once in 2000, when it gave him an upset win over George W. Bush, and again in 2008, when he dashed Mr. Romney’s hopes of winning the nomination. 
 
 Mr. McCain is just as fond of New Hampshire as its voters are of him, and one Republican strategist said the timing of the endorsement — at the beginning of the race for the state — was a logical choice for the campaign. 
 
 But in other ways, the endorsement could be considered a surprise. Mr. McCain and Mr. Romney clashed repeatedly during the 2008 campaign and were not thought to like each other very much. 
 
 Still, Mr. McCain is not known to be close to Rick Santorum, who he served with in the Senate for more than a decade. 
 
 And just this week, Mr. Santorum defended his own endorsement of Mr. Romney in 2008 by saying that he wanted to do whatever he could to stop Mr. McCain’s path to the nomination. That might have been enough to push Mr. McCain into the Romney camp. 
 
 Michael Barbaro contributed to this report.
– As Mitt Romney heads to New Hampshire following his razor-thin win in Iowa, he can expect an endorsement from the man who trounced him there four years ago. John McCain plans to endorse Romney and will travel with him on his campaign bus through the state, a campaign insider tells the New York Times. Romney endorsed McCain after dropping out of the race in 2008. Rick Santorum—who endorsed Romney in 2008, as a way, he said this week, to stop McCain's bid for the nomination—said that while McCain is a great man with whom it was an honor to serve in the Senate, he was surprised that the Romney endorsement hadn't come sooner. "John is a more moderate member of the Republican team, and I think he fits in with Newt's—excuse me, with Mitt's—view of the world," he told CNN.