Not wanting to be mean spirited or be looked at as a defeatist, but if I were a paid staffer and my candidate were to utter the words “No matter what happens in (noted location), we’re not dropping out”, I would be polishing up my resume before going to sleep that night and spending about 20 minutes at Kinkos getting 4 or 5 copies of my resume professionally bound the next morning.
Just being realistic.
In all fairness, what else could she say?