Former Senator Rick Santorum suffered a meltdown this week after Ohio voted to enshrine abortion rights and legalize marijuana in the state, RadarOnline.com has learned.
The former Pennsylvania senator’s surprising remarks came on Tuesday night shortly after the Ohio polls closed and the results of the election flooded in.
“They are base elections and the Democrats have traditionally, number one, outspent us, not just on odd number year elections, but generally speaking,” Santorum added.
Also surprising was Santorum’s claim that “abortion and marijuana” are “sexy things” that push younger voters to go to the polls.
“Their base is more ginned up to go out and vote generally than Republicans,” he told Kelly. “We’ve seen this now for the last several years, and so a base election, they outspend, and you put very sexy things like abortion and marijuana on the ballot, and a lot of young people come out and vote.”
“It was a secret sauce for disaster in Ohio,” the former senator continued. “I don’t know what they were thinking, but that’s why I thank goodness that most of the states in this country don’t allow you to put everything on the ballot because pure democracies are not the way to run a country.”
According to the results of the Ohio ballot on Tuesday night, 55% of Ohio voters voted to enshrine the right to abortion in the state constitution.
A large majority of the state’s voters also voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in Ohio.