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Romney leads Congressional GOP endorsements race
By Brian Mooney, Globe Staff
With a fresh endorsement today from a Michigan congressman, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney now leads his rival, Arizona Senator John McCain, by a 29-27 margin in congressional endorsements in the Republican presidential race, The Hill reports.
Representative Vernon Ehlers of Grand Rapids signed on after Romney's win in the Iowa straw poll last weekend.
Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani ranks third, with 21 congressional supporters, followed by former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson, who has not yet officially entered the race and has 18 members of Congress supporting him, according to the Washington political newspaper's running tally.
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