


Salem, New Hampshire—The top echelon of the DeSantis campaign has begun having frank conversations with donors about whether the Florida governor should remain in the race, National Review has learned.
In recent days people close to the governor have begun making calls to top donors laying out what the campaign sees as their options at this point, which include possibly dropping out of the race in the coming days.
The campaign continues to tell reporters that their candidate will stay in the race through South Carolina, force rival and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley to drop out should she lose her home state, and hopefully go toe-to-toe with Trump in the event that she drops out.
But behind closed doors, DeSantis allies are of course mindful of the fact that the Florida governor continues to poll in the single digits in New Hampshire compared with Haley, who is still polling behind Trump but is gaining on him in some surveys. As recently as Tuesday, one day after DeSantis finished roughly 30 points behind first-place finisher Donald Trump in Iowa, the campaign insisted that DeSantis still had a path forward to the nomination.
The DeSantis campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Another source tells National Review that the bundler page on the campaign’s finance website is no longer working, and that when credentialed individuals try to enter login information on the site, an error message appears. The campaign did not immediately respond when asked whether the website was experiencing a glitch.
Rumors about DeSantis’s potential drop-out timeline continue to swirl here after the campaign canceled the governor’s scheduled appearances on several Sunday shows. He is currently scheduled to appear at a meet-and-greet event in Manchester, New Hampshire, at 5 p.m. Sunday.
This is a developing story