Florida Governor Ron DeSantis joined Friday’s Your World on Fox News where he faced familiar questions about the future of his presidential campaign.
DeSantis landed in second place in last week’s Iowa caucuses, but ran 30 points behind former President Donald Trump. Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley finished third and is expected to leapfrog DeSantis in next week’s New Hampshire primary, which according to polls looks to be more competitive than Iowa.
“It’s easy to pile on someone when they’re having a hard polling time as you are, Governor” host Neil Cavuto said before reading a series of brutal headlines about DeSantis’ campaign. “You’re seeing and hearing all of that and then Marco Rubio – your state’s senator – who says ‘I’m supporting Donald Trump.’ I mean, that’s gotta hurt.”
“No, I mean that’s just part of the business,” DeSantis replied before pivoting to his finish in Iowa.
He continued:
DESANTIS: So, some of this stuff is those folks have been writing that stuff for years and years. That’s just the nature of it. I can tell you this, though. If you look at Iowa. You know, we did it right. I mean, we got the endorsement of the governor. We won the debates – the Miami debate, the Newsom debate, the NewsNation debate, the CNN debate. We did televised town halls, you know, got great response.
CAVUTO: But you didn’t win a single county. Right? I mean… you visited them all, to your credit, but you didn’t win a single one.
DESANTIS: But I also had– I mean, how many people would’ve been able to handle $50 million in ads? How many people would’ve been able to handle all the headwinds we had? We had an uphill battle. We dug in and we executed and we did run hard. We did do well. And what we got is traditionally what is considered good in a caucus.
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