Posted on 01/15/2024 10:01:53 AM PST by conservative98
The Governor worries Donald Trump and Nikki Haley now won't bother to debate him in the Granite State, where he trails badly.
Gov. Ron DeSantis denies that he was “petrified” by the news Chris Christie was suspending his presidential run, but he is admitting in Iowa that he would have preferred a different outcome.
DeSantis wanted the former New Jersey Governor in the race to ensure a televised debate in New Hampshire actually happens, an outcome apparently in doubt now.
“I wanted him to stay in because I think if he was in the WMUR debate on Thursday and I had committed, I think that maybe Nikki Haley and Donald Trump would have had to consider it,” DeSantis said to KCCI in Iowa.
“The fact that he’s not a candidate anymore, I may be the only one there and you may not end up having that debate. So I thought it was worth it for him to stick through that debate, see what happens in Iowa and then go from there. But he didn’t do that.
(Excerpt) Read more at floridapolitics.com ...
I didn’t think DeSantis was that tall - and he isn’t.
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