Orlando, Fla. — There’s no love lost between the Perry and Romney campaigns — and both camps used today’s Presidency 5 straw poll results as a way to denigrate the other side.
“Words that Rick Perry probably wants to take back, from this morning’s breakfast: ‘I have all my hopes on Florida,’” Eric Fehrnstrom, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney, tweeted after the poll’s results came back.
Perry spokesman Mark Miner shot back in an interview with ABC News.
“He’s been running for president for five and a half years and he comes in third place today,” Miner said of Romney. “Whether it’s his inconsistency or his liberal positions, the people of Florida continue to react to him every year he runs for president.”
“He’s expecting to be crowned president without the effort,” Miner added, “and today showed he’s not just going to be crowned president of the United States. You have to work for it.”