Mitch Daniels, who is giving the keynote address address to tonight’s CPAC Reagan Banquet, has naturally received quite a few interview requests. But he said this morning that he preferred instead to hold a small briefing on health care instead with a handful of reporters.

The moment in the briefing with the greatest significance for the 2012 race (which Daniels said he is not part of) came when Daniels was asked about the cigarette tax increase that paid for his state’s health care program, and specifically what conservative anti-tax activitsts like Grover Norquist would say about it.

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