Former President Trump congratulated Ron DeSantis Sunday for working a “nice marketing campaign” for president after the Florida governor dropped out of the 2024 race.
DeSantis ended his marketing campaign and endorsed Trump, saying partly on X, “It’s clear to me {that a} majority of Republican main voters wish to give Donald Trump one other probability. They watched his presidency get stymied by relentless resistance, and so they see Democrats utilizing lawfare to this present day to assault him.”
Trump spoke at a marketing campaign occasion in Rochester, N.H., forward of the 2024 main and praised DeSantis for “doing an excellent job.” He additionally mentioned he seems ahead to working with the previous presidential candidate and others to defeat President Biden.
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Fox Information’ Kayleigh McEnany mentioned Trump will want a “conciliatory” tone for the following a number of months if he desires to beat Biden in November.
“I feel he [Trump] will get the DeSantis voter each within the main and the final. The DeSantis voter tends to be a conventional conservative particular person of religion, and that naturally interprets to Donald Trump. The place I feel his problem is each right here and going ahead right into a common election, is profitable over the Nikki Haley voter, profitable over the institution voter, profitable over the impartial, which is why I feel that vice presidential choose is so essential,” McEnany mentioned on “The Massive Weekend Present.”
“You will need to choose somebody who helps to usher in that bloc as a result of I consider the conservatives, the bottom, goes to return residence, present up, rain or shine. You want the impartial, you want the suburban ladies. You want that tone.”
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Co-host Man Benson additionally argued Trump’s “conciliatory tone” is important come election day.
“To beat Joe Biden, there’ll should be unity on the best. And it begins with treating potential allies as they drop out, the way in which that we truly simply heard from Trump, which is slightly bit out of character for him. However I feel strategically it is smart,” he defined.
A CNN/College of New Hampshire ballot discovered Trump leads Nikki Haley 50% – 39% respectively, simply two days earlier than the first on Tuesday.
