WASHINGTON — Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann will endorse Mitt Romney at a campaign stop in southern Virginia on Thursday, a Romney official confirmed Wednesday night.

Bachmann has been flirting with a Romney endorsement for a while now, telling CNN last week that the endorsement would come “all in good time.” As a founding member of the Tea Party caucus on Capitol Hill, Bachmann is positioned to give Romney a boost with the most conservative wing of the Republican Party, the voters he struggled the most to court during his nomination campaign.

Bachmann, of course, is a former presidential rival of Romney. She dropped out of the race the day after her sixth place finish in the Iowa caucuses. She hasn’t endorsed a candidate until now, just as Romney has the party nomination all but sealed up.

The endorsement will come at an event in Portsmouth, Va., just outside of Norfolk, at an afternoon rally. Virginia is one of a handful of battleground states in this November’s election. A Public Policy Polling survey of Virginia voters shows President Obama leading Romney 51-43.

Devin Henry can be reached at dhenry@minnpost.com. Follow him on Twitter: @dhenry

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  1. Unintended consequences

    Bachmannn’s endorsement will probably cost Rmoney the last of the independent voters who will determine the election.

  2. Tasteless action is self serving

    Her “endorsement” is purely self serving and if not part of an already done deal is part of the ongoing strategy of meeting her needs for a continuing “role” in the national picture. What a joke. Unfortunately, her presence on the scene is a testimony to the failing of our nation, so there’s really nothing funny going on at all. She’s not the first seamy pol to promote a shady form of sunshine, but she’s a local embarassment that belongs on another planet. Just my opinion.

  3. This should address the problem of retiring the remaining 1 million in campaign debt from the Bachmann presidential campaign. Mr. Gingrich with his 4.3 million in campaign debt can’t be too far behind either.

    As Mr. Romney knows, there is no such thing as a free lunch

  4. “I’m here to lend my voice….”

    shrilled Bachmann on a clip of her Romney endorsement earlier today on MSNBC. Then they played Edith Bunker singing her line in Those Were the Days. Same cringing effect.

    Please 6th District, PLEASE do the the right thing in November. Only you can make her go away.

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