Michele Bachmann Confirms Report She Was Asked To Drop Out By Conservative Christian Group

GOP candidate Michele Bachmann was a guest on Fox and Friends Wednesday morning, and confirmed reports that she had received a phone call from Evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats, asking her to drop out and throw her support to either Rick Santorum or Rick Perry.

“I did receive a phone call,” Rep. Bachmann said. “[But] I’ve been polling above the Ricks. There would be no reason for me to drop out.”

Bachmann then rattled off a long list of Iowa supporters, including over 100 pastors and about 900 former Herman Cain supporters, who are on her side. “They can certainly ask,” she noted on the phone call to drop out, “but we’re not here to do that.”

Part of the reason Bachmann thinks she has a shot is her feeling that the momentum in Iowa after the Fox News debate “has completely shifted.” She believes that her campaign is surging, due mostly to her grassroots efforts and pledge to visit 99 Iowa counties before the caucus.

“We’re being very grassroots — ten stops a day in twenty different counties,” Bachmann said. “They want to look in my eyes and I want to look in theirs. This is positive, it’s relationship-building. That’s the way to go, bring people in. It’s a lot of work, but it’s the right thing to do.”

Watch a clip of Bachmann’s interview on F&F, courtesy of Fox News:

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