West Des Moines, Iowa — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis insisted he is staying in the 2024 race after he finished a distant second to former President Donald Trump in the Iowa caucuses and only narrowly coming out ahead of former U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley.
“You helped us get a ticket punched out of the Hawkeye state,” DeSantis told a crowd of supporters at a caucus watch party in West Des Moines on Monday night.
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The road after Iowa is unclear for DeSantis. DeSantis has trailed both Trump and Haley by increasing margins in both New Hampshire and South Carolina — states he has invested much less time in this cycle compared to Iowa. But his campaign is aiming to outlast Haley in this race, and get to a one-on-one matchup with Trump.
“This is shaping up to be a two-person race soon enough, it may just take a few more weeks to fully get there,” wrote DeSantis communications director Andrew Romeo in a press release Tuesday.