Romney Gets Brewer's Support, Looks Headed to Big Win in Arizona

With the backing of Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer, polls show Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney appears poised to win the primary in the Grand Canyon State on Tuesday.

A We Ask America poll of likely Arizona primary voters released on Monday shows Romney with a commanding lead. He takes 43 percent of those surveyed --far ahead of Rick Santorum who places second with 27 percent. Newt Gingrich places third with 21 percent, followed by Ron Paul who garners 10 percent. The poll of 1,162 likely Arizona Republican primary voters was taken Feb. 26 and had a margin of error of +/- 2.87 percent.

Brewer, who won national attention for supporting her states immigration law, announced on "Meet the Press" that she is backing Romney on Sunday.

I have had my debate there in Arizona, and I have looked over all the wonderful people that have put themselves up for nomination, and I have decided that I am going to publicly endorse Mitt Romney," Brewer said. I think he's the man that can carry the day, and I am going to get out there and work as hard as I know how to make sure that he wins Arizona, and work in other places of our country to see that he wins those places, too.

I think that he handles himself very, very well, but more than that, I think that he has that pro-business background and he has that political history that I think that he would serve America the best of all the candidates, Brewer added. So it was a difficult decision, but I think Mitt is by far the person that can go in and win.