Tom Tancredo's campaign website promises a "major announcement" tomorrow in Iowa. Marc Ambinder says Tancredo's dropping out of the race.
Why drop out now, with the Iowa caucuses just two weeks away? The likely scenario is that Tancredo's brokered a deal to support one of the other candidates in exchange for some position within the future administration (head of border security perhaps?). Ambinder says it's Romney or Thompson. Given Thompson's chances of going all the way, my bet would be Romney.
And a Tancredo endorsement could help Romney diffuse criticism that he's soft on illegal immigration.
