Michele Bachmann's Campaign Manager: 'She has to Win Iowa'

Having placed dead last in the Presidency 5 straw poll in Orlando on Saturday, the team behind Minnesota U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmanns presidential campaign is regrouping and continuing to insist their candidate can win the Republican nomination.

After her poor showing in Orlando, Bachmann headed back to Iowa --the home of the first presidential caucus --on Monday. Having won the Iowa Republican straw poll in Ames last month, Bachmanns team left no doubt that her presidential ambitions rested on the Hawkeye State.

We made a decision to go after Iowa, said Keith Nahigian, Bachmanns campaign manager in a video released late on Tuesday. She has to win Iowa and move on from there. ...By winning Iowa, she will be on a path to victory.

In the video, Nahigian said that the Bachmann team would downplay New Hampshire to focus on winning Iowa and South Carolina.

We are on the exact path we have designed and the exact path to victory, said Nahigian. Constitutional conservatives and others in the past have been asked to settle in order to win. This is not the year to compromise. This is the year to finally elect somebody who is on the right side of all the issues and has a unique position to put us on a completely different path to restore America. Michele Bachmann is that conservative.