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Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) appropriated a phrase from President Obama to describe the 2012 election in an op-ed on Friday.

"President Obama has characterized this time as a 'make or break moment' for America, and we agree," the two legislators write. Obama used the phrase in a recent speech in Kansas, where he invoked former President Theodore Roosevelt in calling for Americans to rally together behind him and his economic vision.

DeMint and King, both influential GOP conservatives, have said they will not endorse before the Republican primary. However, they weighed in on the process in a joint op-ed for the Des Moines Register less than a week before the first vote in Iowa on Jan. ! 3. The op-ed looks ahead to the general election, urging readers in Iowan to vote for a course correction, away from Obama and back to a nation of "hope and opportunity." 

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