Bachmann says not giving up WEST DES MOINES, Iowa, Jan. 4 (UPI) -- Michele Bachmann says she won't quit her quest for the Republican presidential nomination despite polling just 5 percent in Iowa, her home state. With 96.1 percent of Iowa's precincts counted, the Minnesota congresswoman had 5,926 votes, placing her far behind Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. Still, The Des Moines Register reported, Bachmann told about 90 supporters who joined her family in West Des Moines Tuesday night she's not giving up and will soldier on at least through the South Carolina primary Jan. 21. "I believe I am that true conservative who can and will defeat Barack Obama," she said. Bachmann said "the pundits and the press" would try to dismiss her, but it will be the voters who will decide her fate, the newspaper said. "There are many more chapters to be written on the path to our party's nomination," she said. And I prefer to let people of country decide who will represent us. While New Hampshire's Jan. 10 primary is the next stop on the presidential campaign trail, Bachmann's campaign manager, Keith Nahigian, indicated the push will be in South Carolina. "Full steam ahead," Nahigian told the Register.