michele bachmann

Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum finished virtually even in Iowa's caucuses Tuesday, but after Rep. Michele Bachmann's sixth-place finish, she announced Wednesday that she is suspending her campaign.

For more on the GOP race and the next contest — Tuesday's New Hampshire primary — Linda Wertheimer talks with NPR's Brian Naylor, who's in the city of Manchester.

Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann once appeared to be the favored Republican presidential candidate in Iowa.

But she's been near the bottom of most polls since. Bachmann is making an aggressive push to finish well in next month's Iowa caucuses, and she embarks on a multi-day bus tour of the state Friday.

ROCHESTER, Mich. — Republican presidential hopeful Rick Perry says he would eliminate three federal agencies.

Just don’t ask him to name them.

“Commerce, Education and the — what’s the third one there?

Let’s see,” the Texas governor said during a debate Wednesday night.

Perry’s rivals tried to bail him out, suggesting the Environmental Protection Agency.

“EPA, there you go,” Perry said, seemingly taking their word for it.

But that wasn’t it.

And when pressed, the candidate drew another blank.

After several weeks of campaigning, Michele Bachmann has become a series contender for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination.

She's been campaigning in South Carolina, which hosts the first Southern primary of 2012. The winner in South Carolina has gone on to win every Republican nomination since 1980.

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