“Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum said on Monday night that he is ‘not sure’ if Republicans care about poor people as much as Democrats do.

“‘If you really cared you’d talk about the problems they have,’ Santorum told a group of conservatives at the New York meeting on Monday evening.

“The New York Meeting is a monthly gathering organized by Mallory Factor, a New York Times best-selling author and instructor at the Citadel in South Carolina.

“Santorum was at the event to promote his new book, Blue Collar Conservatives, which was released that day.”

In this clip from The Young Turks, John Iadarola, Jayar Jackson and Ana Kasparian break down Santorum’s comments, and discuss whether there’s more style than substance to his newfound interest in talking about poverty.

For more, read the Daily Mail story by Francesca Chambers here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2616350/Rick-Santorum-tells-GOP-group-hes-not-sure-party-cares-poor-people-Democrats-do.html#ixzz30cuoMCAc