Fox Industry Community’s Stuart Varney came right out and requested presidential candidate Ron DeSantis (R-FL) what his strategy is to bridge the large gap between his candidacy and Donald Trump‘s among Republican voters.

A Fox Information poll confirmed DeSantis trailing Trump via 34 factors nationally, while a Florida ballot confirmed Trump dominating DeSantis in his home state.

“You’re down over 30 points to Trump; what’s your technique for catching up?” Varney asked all the way through Monday’s Varney & Co. DeSantis answered:

Neatly, first, I believe it’s pretty clear the media does no longer need me to be the candidate. I feel they’ve created a narrative that in some way the race is over. This is going to be a state-through-state contest; we’ve worked truly laborious to construct the kind of organization in locations like Iowa, New Hampshire, South Carolina — that you simply need with a view to win these early contests.

We’re going to proceed doing that, we gotta work, but we’ve acquired very, very favorable response, and we’re going to continue building on that momentum. On the end of the day, I believe the fact that I’m the person who’s centered by way of the media and via the left, and even via the President of Mexico, it’s because folks comprehend I will beat Biden, and I’ll if truth be told deliver on the problems, beat the Democrats, like on the border; beat them on things like ESG, beat them on crime, and they don’t wish to see that. So, I think we’re going to keep telling the truth, and I believe you’re going to see good outcomes.

DeSantis’ comments had been similar to ones he gave Fox Industry Information’ Maria Bartiromo Sunday when she requested, “What’s happening with your marketing campaign? There was once various optimism about you working for president prior in the yr… What came about?!”

The Florida governor commenced by way of blaming the media, then stated he didn’t predict the nomination to be a very easy course of.

“I by no means anticipated to simply snap fingers and all of a sudden, , you win seven months prior to [anything] occurs,” he stated. “You bought to earn it and also you got to work. And it requires quite a lot of toil and tears and sweat. And we’re going to do that.”

Watch the Fox Industry Community clip above.

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