DeSantis: '100%' My Campaign Has the Resources to Go Through Super Tuesday

HH: Are you staying in through all of March’s races? Is there any way Ron DeSantis drops out before the end of March?

RD: Look, my goal is to, is to win the nomination. If we’d won Iowa, we would have been in a great spot. You know, coming in second gives us the ticket to continue, but I told me people this from the very beginning. I don’t want to be V.P. I don’t want to be in the cabinet. I don’t want a T.V. show. I’m in it to win it, and at some point, you know, if that’s not working out for you, like I recognize that this isn’t a vanity thing for me. But I do believe that we have an opportunity in November to do very, very well. I also think that there’s pitfalls by choosing the course that the party faithful chose in Iowa. And I don’t think any of that’s changed. I don’t think that there are people necessarily talking about it. There’s a lot of sense on the Republican side that somehow, you know, Biden will win, anyone could win like a Regan landslide against Biden. And they haven’t even started. The Dems haven’t even started. They’re going to drop billions of dollars. And what they want to run on is they want to run on all the stuff surrounding Donald Trump, January 6th, all the legal issues. That’s what they want to run on. And the question is, is that going to be effective with those independent voters that we need to win? I can tell you in Florida, we showed how to win all of those people, with strong leadership.

HH: But Governor, before we go to the break, are you in through the end of March? Do you have the money and the staff and the ability to compete through the end of March?

RD: Oh, yes on that. 100%. We can do that.

[This is from yesterday, but it’s still worth noting. Most of the heavy lifting in these states has already been accomplished, so that’s not a surprise. The same likely goes for Nikki Haley too. The question will be whether donors will keep funding efforts past that time, and the answer is likely to be ‘no’ unless they can win a state or two along the way. If Trump runs the table through Super Tuesday, it’s probably time to pack it in. — Ed]