DDC Advocacy Partner Sara Fagen appeared on CNBC on Tuesday on the eve of the Florida Republican primary during a special Your Money, Your Vote segment on the business news network. 

Fagen joined former Assistant Treasury Secretary and Mitt Romney surrogate Emil Henry to discuss the outlook for the GOP primary and what it means heading into the general election in November. 

Fagen argued that, despite the drama currently unfolding between former Gov. Mitt Romney and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, the economy is still central in the minds of voters. “If you look at where the economy is, and … consumer confidence is lower than expected, that is the single-most-important measure for whether the president will be reelected or not,” said Fagen. “It is troubling for the White House.”  

Fagen also crunched the delegate numbers for Romney and Gingrich as they battle it out past Florida and on to Super Tuesday: “Well, [Florida’s delegate count] is not the most important number of whether Newt can stretch it out,” she observed. She noted that the primary race’s end will really depend on what happens on March 6^th, also known as Super Tuesday. “Over 500 delegates [will be] awarded on March 6^th, including Texas, Newt’s home state of Georgia, and most of those are going to be reapportioned.  Can Newt rack up enough [delegates] in the primaries to…force Romney into April and potentially drag out the convention process?”

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