Former GOP candidate and current Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis just made a huge prediction about the outcome of the primary race in South Carolina, stating there’s “no question” Trump is going to take home a major victory over his lone opponent, Nikki Haley, in her own state. His remarks were made in the Palmetto State on Tuesday. Given how fiercely DeSantis and former President Donald Trump during the early part of the primary, this is high praise. Of course, it’s also backed up by polling data as well, which has Trump over Haley by 30 percentage points.
via Breitbart:
Florida Gov. DeSantis, who dropped out of the presidential race in January, took questions on the state of the race following his remarks at the South Carolina State House Senate Chamber, where he pushed his greater agenda of instilling Congressional term limits.
“If you have a path, you have every right to be running,” DeSantis told reporters, explaining that he never said certain people should not run “even though there were a lot of people [at] one percent.”
“But if the path isn’t there, then I think: At what point is the purpose of this? And I think that would actually just be how everyone looks at it,” he began before knocking Haley’s strategy of attracting non-conservative voters in open primary states.
“What I didn’t understand about Nikki — and I still don’t understand it today — is we have a voter base in the Republican Party. And I think if you look at the Iowa results, it’s a good example,” DeSantis remarked.
“Eighty-five percent of the registered Republicans voted for either Trump or me, effectively…so that’s just a big conservative base, right? To try to appeal to people who aren’t a part of that base for a primary — I just didn’t understand that,” the Republican governor went on to say, clearly stating that the strategy isn’t going to work.
Haley has been attempting to employ what I call the “girl boss” strategy, which is to try and make herself look like a big, powerful, formidable opponent simply because she’s a woman. It’s a fake bravado, one many liberal feminists put on too, and it’s extremely obnoxious. She acts as if she is a lone crusader in a world that hates women, rather than a professional woman living in the second decade of the 21st century. You know, where women are involved in every facet of life and in every industry?
“It was clear to me after…Iowa that she just didn’t have support amongst Republicans, and I’ve never seen anyone win a Republican nomination by focusing on non-Republican voters. It just doesn’t work,” DeSantis added. “And so that was why after Iowa — and I took it, you know, four or five days to analyze all the data, look at the path forward — I didn’t make a flippant decision, but I looked at it.”
The Florida governor then made a prediction about the results of the South Carolina race, going on to say, “There’s no question that South Carolina is going to be a big victory for Donald Trump because he appeals to core Republicans in a way that Nikki Haley just does not or is not trying to.”
When DeSantis officially dropped out of the race, he made it abundantly clear he would be backing Trump and that his choice to do so was an assault against the “old Republican guard of yesteryear” also known as the establishment, and that Nikki Haley was part of the governmental entity he’s fighting against.
“He has my endorsement because we can’t go back to the old Republican guard of yesteryear — a repackaged form of warmed-over corporatism — that Nikki Haley represents. The days of putting Americans last, of kowtowing to large corporations, of caving to woke ideology, are over,” DeSantis said.
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