group today. we ll be getting the results from the straw poll in an hour. heather: i was going to ask you that, about the front runners. perry, romney, what type of feeling are you getting from the crowd in regards to them? rick: mr. perry put in serious investment. he spent money, he held receptions. he s been using robo calls to call the delegates and encourage them to cast their straw poll ballots for him. mitt romney by contrast said he was not going to do that, but it s very true that his florida supporters have been doing a lot of grassroots organizing trying to build up the numbers. perry had questions about his debate performance earlier in the week, particularly his position on illegal immigration and before he left florida this morning at a breakfast, he talked at length about it and here is what he had to say. what americans are looking for in the candidate, they re looking for an authentic principled leader. [ applause ] think about it. you have seen what happens when
herman cain s ability to more than double what rick perry has gotten suggests a great deal of the support that rick perry thought he had before the debate, in fact, went to herman cain. the closeness of the perry, romney numbers putting them at the 15 and 14% suggests those two are going to be in a very, very tough battle. rick santorum coming in fourth is an illustration of just how well he has done and for michelle bachman coming in last, this has to be very, very upsetting news. governor rick scott, florida s chief executive is not going to formally announce the results to the audience here, but fox news viewers now know it. presidency 5 has a new winner, herman cain with an upset victory, toppling rick perry who had invested a tremendous amount of time and effort here, and frankly, many thought and had predicted that he would win and yet, clearly attributed to what was a rocky performance in the debate and his position on illegal immigration. perry comes in second only
results in. barl will bring it to us live from florida. us a point out, there were some prettun scathing reviews of rick perry s debate performance. i m going to put on the screen loour of them that caught my ey. james wall street jouwl, awful, babbling, one said incoherent. g eg: do you thi: l this is a turning process, it could be the beginning of the end to rick perperr s sudden surge? it very well could be. that is what makes the straw poll so important and what happens in the next week or so. all the more important for rick perperr. how can he recover from this. can he recover? does some wildcard like the governor of nl, jersey, chris