Ron DeSantis now says Donald Trump's 2018 endorsement didn't matter
During an interview on “Fox & Friends,” Ron DeSantis rebutted Donald Trump’s claim that DeSantis in 2018 “did well because (Trump) endorsed him,” made most recently by Trump during a rally in Hialeah.
“The idea that he is responsible for Florida’s success is absurd,” DeSantis told Brian Kilmeade, in an interview recorded remotely despite “Fox & Friends” actually airing from Miami on Thursday.
“If his endorsement was so important, why have Republicans been losing so many of these races where he’s endorsed, have fewer Governors than when he got elected President, fewer (U.S.) Senators, fewer U.S. House members?”
DeSantis’ remarks on the Fox News Channel are just his latest attempt to argue tha...
