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Mitt Romney said Tuesday that Rick Santorum had not yet been "as carefully viewed by the American public" as other candidates, predicting the vetting process would not be kind to the former senator the same day Santorum's campaign was scrambling to defend a new set of controversial comments.

"Sen. Santorum hasn’t been as carefully viewed by the American public as have the others," Romney said while campaigning in Michigan Tuesday, according to ABC News. "We had Donald Trump for awhile and then we had Herman Cain and we had Rick Perry and Newt Gingrich. They have all been vetted pretty carefully. Rick Santorum is now just being seen for the first time in many homes and his background and mine are very different.”

Romney's comments came hours after the Drudge Report splashed a story about a Santorum address in which the former senator warned that "Satan has his sights on the United States of America."

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