Santorum refuses to bow out for rival Gingrich Republican White House hopeful Rick Santorum, trailing two main rivals, refused Tuesday to bow out of the presidential race as urged by fellow conservative Newt Gingrich. Santorum is polling in third place, well behind frontrunner Mitt Romney and Gingrich, the former House speaker who has consistently warned that having two core conservatives in the race will likely hand the nomination to Romney, seen as the more moderate establishment candidate. "My message is everybody should run, whoever wants to run and be in this race," Santorum told Fox News on the day Florida Republicans vote in the largest primary yet in the nomination contest to see who will go up against Democrat President Barack Obama in November's general election. "I don't think people should be telling other folks to get out of the race and 'get out of my way,'" said the former senator from Pennsylvania. Earlier on the same network Gingrich was adamant that there should be a sole conservative in the race. "It's going to be very clear that I'm the leading conservative, that I have the best chance of beating governor Romney and that the longer conservatives stay split, the harder it's going to be for us to stop a moderate who was as governor pro abortion, pro gun control and pro tax increase," Gingrich said. I think that we risk not being able to beat Obama unless we get a conservative to the nomination. Recent polls show the millionaire Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, with a double-digit lead over Gingrich in Florida, but Gingrich has been adamant that his support combined with Santorum's surpasses Romney's. Santorum, who has left Florida to focus on other states, earlier has hinted that he will stay in the race well beyond Florida. We hang in there. This race will come back to us just at the right time," he told Fox television late Monday. Santorum was due in the western state of Colorado early Tuesday and was to travel to the nearby state of Nevada later that same day.