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Iowa runner-up Rick Santorum said Thursday that he would be "a much bigger player" than expected in the New Hampshire primary and denied saying that he wanted "to make black people's lives better by giving them somebody else's money" in an interview Wednesday night with Fox News.

Santorum made the controversial comments when discussing welfare, but maintained that people misheard the word "black" when he stumbled on a word.

“I looked at that, and I didn't say that.  If you look at it, what I started to say is a word and then sort of changed and it sort of -- blah -- came out.  And people said I said ‘black.’  I didn't," Santorum said.

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