Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis ripped failed GOP presidential nominee Nikki Haley for refusing to endorse former President Donald Trump and bring the party together after Super Tuesday.
DeSantis was responding to Haley’s announcement that she would not support Trump even though she signed a pledge to back the GOP nominee, whomever that was.
As the Tampa Free Press reported, Haley said she only signed that pledge as a condition of participating in the Republican debates. She added that she was not bound by it.
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“I signed the pledge,” DeSantis told Newsmax host Eric Bolling in an interview on Wednesday. “And you sign the pledge saying that you’re going to not take your ball and go home. So, I honored the pledge.”
“She’s gonna have to make a decision about whether she wants to or not, but the idea that somehow circumstances have changed, I think we all knew what we were doing when we did that,” DeSantis added.
“You’ve got to make a judgment about whether that’s meaningful to you. And so for me, I tell people, if I say I’m going to do something, I’m going to do it,” he continued.
Trump won 14 of 15 primaries on Super Tuesday and has swept all but two contests so far.
Haley won the two most left-wing primaries up for grabs: Washington,. D.C., and Vermont.
In that interview, DeSantis also ripped Haley for seeking the Republican nomination by appealing to non-Republicans.
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“She had waged a campaign on the idea that you can somehow win the Republican nomination for president by getting the votes of mostly just non-Republicans. That just doesn’t work. We saw that play out in Iowa, and I said at the time that she didn’t have a pathway,” said DeSantis.
As an example, 70% of the votes Haley got in the New Hampshire primary were from non-Republicans.
Going forward, DeSantis said it was time for the party to unite.
“Now we’re in a situation where Republicans are staring down the barrel of a President [Joe]Biden who’s clearly not up to the job,” said DeSantis.
“His policies have not worked, so now is the time for that to be the focus.”
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