The Romney camp said that, based on the delegate math, it would take an ‘act of God’ for Santorum or Newt win the nomination:
MSNBC – Mitt Romney’s campaign gathered the national press corps in their campaign war room this morning to deliver a simple message: It would take an “act of God” for any candidate not named Mitt Romney to win the Republican nomination.
The Boston-based campaign projected confidence in Romney’s ability to win the nomination given the emerging delegate math in the campaign following last night’s Super Tuesday contests.
“We will get to 1,144 whether it’s on someone else’s timeline, or on our timeline,” said one top Romney aide. “We will get to 1,144 and be the Republican nominee.”
The background briefing with several members of the campaign’s senior staff was emblematic of Romney’s campaign: no grand flourishes, just business, math and message, with aides asserting the calendar was ill-suited to any candidate looking to eat into Romney’s delegate lead.
Somethings are better left unsaid, to be honest. It’s one thing to be confident and assert that you believe you will win. But to put it in such terms just sounds utterly arrogant.