Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will join President-elect Trump at the annual Army-Navy college football game, two sources tell Fox News, as Pete Hegseth’s Defense Secretary nomination faces headwinds
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida will join President-elect Trump next weekend at the annual Army-Navy college football game, two sources familiar tell Fox News.
The teaming up of DeSantis and Trump – for the second time this month – comes as multiple sources have confirmed that the president-elect is considering nominating the governor as defense secretary as a possible replacement for Pete Hegseth, Trump’s embattled current pick to steer the Pentagon.
But the move also comes as Trump on Friday took to social media to write that “Hegseth is doing very well. His support is strong and deep, much more so than the Fake News would have you believe.”
DeSantis, a popular conservative governor and a Navy veteran who served in the Iraq War, waged a bitter battle last year and early this year with Trump during a very combative and divisive GOP presidential nomination race.
