A few hours after finishing second in the Iowa Caucuses, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis looked chipper and sounded optimistic in his first campaign event on Jan. 16 in Greenville, South Carolina.
With many pundits trying to count him out and many networks calling the Jan. 15 race for former President Donald Trump before many Iowans had even voted, Mr. DeSantis looked ahead to New Hampshire on Jan. 23 and the South Carolina primary on Feb. 24.
“They threw everything but the kitchen sink at me,” he said defiantly. “During this process, they spent almost $50 million against me. That’s more than has been spent against [President Joe] Biden and Trump combined. The media, nonstop, all they were trying to do was knock me out….
