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Former President Donald Trump argued that 2024 GOP rival Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida should end his presidential bid to unify the Republican base ahead of next year’s election.
“I think he has to get out for the good of the party. He could have waited, and he would have been the odds-on favorite for ’28, but he didn’t do that. I got him elected. If it weren’t for me, he wouldn’t be governor; he’d be working in a law office right now or doing whatever he was going to do,” Trump claimed.
DeSantis won re-election last year by nearly 20 points, which is historic for modern times in a state that has moved solidly to the right and is no longer considered a battleground during his nearly five-year tenure in the governor’s mansion.
In 2018, Trump campaigned for DeSantis, who had served most of his three terms in Congress, before launching his gubernatorial bid.
At the time, the AP reported: “DeSantis, 40, was considered an underdog before Trump tweeted his support for DeSantis in December, a month before he got into the race. Trump campaigned to help push…
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