Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis views a new endorsement for former President Donald Trump by Tim Scott as a “major blow» to another Republican presidential nomination rival — Nikki Haley.
— Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis views a new endorsement for former President Donald Trump as a «major blow» to another Republican presidential nomination rival — Nikki Haley.
And DeSantis, in an interview with Fox News at Saint Anselm College on the outskirts of New Hampshire’s largest city, said he would return to the Granite State ahead of Tuesday’s presidential primary after a weekend campaign swing in South Carolina.
DeSantis was interviewed a couple of hours after Fox News confirmed that Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina would endorse Trump at a campaign rally Friday night in Concord, New Hampshire.
«I actually thought Scott had already endorsed him,» DeSantis said. «I do think that that is a blow to Nikki Haley.»
Both the former president, who’s the commanding front-runner in the GOP nomination race, and Haley — the former South Carolina governor who later served as U.N. ambassador in the Trump administration — called Scott in recent days as they both tried to secure Scott’s endorsement.
Scott’s backing of Trump, whom the senator rarely criticized on the campaign trail during his White House run, is the latest major endorsement for the former president in the state that holds the first southern primary in the GOP nomination race.
