DeSantis booked his ticket out of Iowa – but is he still on the road to nowhere?

Trump had an overwhelming victory and is leading polls in other states, it’s not clear where DeSantis can regain momentum

Minutes after his second-place finish in the Iowa caucuses was confirmed, Ron DeSantis came onstage in a hotel ballroom to declare that everything was going according to plan in his campaign to win the Republican presidential nomination.

“They threw everything but the kitchen sink at us,” the Florida governor told a crowd of supporters who had made liberal use of a nearby cash bar on Monday evening, in the hours they waited for him to speak in West Des Moines.