Ex-president welcomes former ally back into fold.
Ex-President Donald Trump is reportedly pleased that his former rival Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) will once again become an ally by campaigning and fundraising for Trump’s re-election bid.
Speaking at his Mar-a-Lago resort Wednesday night, the 45th president lauded DeSantis after reports this week claimed the former GOP presidential candidate plans to help Trump on the campaign trail.
As reported via The National Pulse:
Trump heaped praise on many present in the crowd and made note of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s pledge to raise money for and campaign with the presumptive GOP nominee.
Rounding off his oft-told story of DeSantis’s duplicity and lack of loyalty, Trump noted: “Today, I heard very nice things. I heard he’s going to campaign very hard for me. And he’s going to raise a lot of money for me. Ron, we like you. Welcome back.”
Over the weekend, DeSantis made his plans known to a group of donors at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino.
The Florida governor had pledged last year to support whoever became the Republican nominee, and proceeded to do so when he bowed out of the race in January, stating,
“I signed a pledge to support the Republican nominee and I will honor that pledge. 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.”
