DeSantis: “No Question” Trump Will Crush Nikki Haley In South Carolina

On Tuesday, Ron DeSantis doubled down on his endorsement of President Trump.

DeSantis told reporters in South Carolina, “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.”

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Ron DeSantis in South Carolina: ‘No Question’ Donald Trump Will Have Massive Victory over Nikki Haley

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This is why I think highly of Ron DeSantis;.

DeSantis in SC: ‘No Question’ Trump Will Have Massive Victory over Haley https://t.co/OwCwmwrO84 via @BreitbartNews

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Breitbart has more on DeSantis’ remarks:

Former Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said there is “no question” that former President Donald Trump will have a massive victory over Nikki Haley in South Carolina, making the remarks in the Palmetto State on Tuesday.

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.

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“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 said.

“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 governor said, explaining that the strategy simply will not work.

“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,” he continued.

DeSantis’ comments were made after a press conference he held at the South Carolina State House Senate Chamber.

ABC 15 News reported locally:

DeSantis, a former Republican presidential primary challenger, bowed out of the race in late January following a crushing defeat in Iowa, despite having visited all 99 counties. He now plans to hold a press conference at the South Carolina State House Senate Chamber in Columbia, just days ahead of the South Carolina Presidential primary.