In January 2017, he became a CNN senior political commentator. The "Synthesizing Obama" method, printed in 2017, modifies video clip footage of former president Barack Obama to depict him mouthing the terms contained in a separate audio observe. Santorum ran for president once more in 2016, but finished his marketing campaign in February 2016 following a poor exhibiting in the Iowa caucuses. He ran for the Republican nomination in the 2012 U.S.