Presidential Exploratory Committee | featured news

Representative Ron Paul, who ran for president in 2008, said on Monday he will form an exploratory committee to consider pursuing the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney on Monday announced he is forming a committee to explore running for the Republican presidential nomination in a web video first released on Twitter. "It is time that we put America back on a course of greatness, with a growing economy, good jobs and fiscal discipline in Washington," Romney says in the video, filmed in front of the University of New Hampshire's football field.

Tim Pawlenty, the former governor of Minnesota, is set to declare Monday afternoon that he is opening a presidential exploratory committee, a step that formalizes a campaign for the Republican nomination that he has been pondering for more than a year.