In a call with donors, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) laid out a plan to allow him to stay in the race until Super Tuesday that included winning the U.S. Virgin Islands.
According to a report by Puck News, DeSantis’s team laid out a plan to donors on a call after the caucus as to how he can stay in the race up until Super Tuesday.
One of those paths was winning the caucus in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Feb. 8. The state only has four delegates up for grabs which, if DeSantis keeps losing to Trump in the bigger competitions with more delegates across the nation, would prove inconsequential.
The U.S. Virgin Islands normally has nine delegates to award, but because they chose to schedule their caucus on Feb. 8 instead of after March 1, the RNC stripped them of half their delegates.
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There is a total of 2,284 delegates to be awarded. Iowa gave away 40 delegates, while New Hampshire has 22 to award, and South Carolina has 50.
DeSantis and his team have been in a free fall since the second-place finish in the Iowa Caucus, where they have laid off staff and have shifted their focus from New Hampshire to South Carolina in an attempt to beat Nikki Haley in her home state, a show of some force.