Posted on 04/20/2023 8:13:41 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
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Then, Waltz explained that he is endorsing Trump for president in 2024—and he focused on national security issues and Trump’s successes in his first term in the White House as the reason why.
“Today I am proud to endorse Donald J. Trump for President,” Waltz said. “Under his leadership, President Trump secured our southern border, created seven million jobs with record-low unemployment, brought manufacturing back to the U.S., made America energy independent and affordable, brokered historic Middle East peace deals, destroyed the ISIS caliphate, launched the Space Force, took out Soleimani, gave veterans choice, and put measures in place to stop China’s march towards global dominance.”
Waltz’s endorsement is perhaps even more significant than any other House Republican in Florida given that he is the immediate successor in Florida’s sixth congressional district to DeSantis. When DeSantis stepped down from his congressional seat in September 2018 during his run for governor, the seat remained vacant until the next Congress. Waltz, who won the election, took over representing the sixth congressional district in Florida in January 2019. Waltz is currently in his third term in Congress, having won reelection in the subsequent two elections in 2020 and 2022.
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“The many crises facing our country demands bold leadership like President Trump has demonstrated,” Waltz continued in his statement endorsing Trump. “Now more than ever we need him back in the White House to bring back U.S. leadership and credibility.”
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Waltz is the latest in a long line of U.S. House Republicans from Florida who have endorsed Trump in recent days. Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), Byron Donalds (R-FL), Brian Mast (R-FL), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), Cory Mills (R-FL), John Rutherford (R-FL), and Greg Steube (R-FL) have all now endorsed Trump. Reps. Carlos Jimenez (R-FL) and Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) reportedly intend to soon. So all of them combined with Waltz means that at least 11 out of 20 Florida U.S. House Republicans have endorsed Trump over DeSantis in 2024. DeSantis, meanwhile, has only earned the endorsement of one U.S. House Republican in Florida, Rep. Laurel Lee (R-FL)—a freshman who was just elected this year after serving in DeSantis’s administration as Secretary of State. DeSantis also reportedly personally called many of these U.S. House Republicans from Florida asking them not to endorse Trump—but instead to just wait for now—and he clearly failed in that regard with many of them.
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This is turning into a tsunami of endorsements.
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