The clock is ticking and Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is running out of time.
With less than one month to go before the pivotal Iowa caucuses DeSantis trails Trump by a wide margin.
And now Ron DeSantis delivered an ultimatum to Trump that will leave you speechless.
DeSantis bet his entire presidential campaign on winning Iowa.
But the most recent poll from Iowa State University showed Trump running away with the caucuses earning 54 percent of the vote.
DeSantis finds himself far behind at 17 percent.
The Florida governor also finds himself trailing RINO former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley in New Hampshire and South Carolina.
DeSantis seized on a “never say never” comment by Lara Trump about Donald Trump picking Nikki Haley as his running mate to fabricate a runaway train of a rumor on social media that Haley was really running in this race to audition for the part of Trump’s vice president.
The gambit intended to work in two ways.
First, peel off Trump supporters who view Haley as the posterchild of the globalist establishment due to her support for businesses dictating unlimited immigration levels in America and her support for a blank check for Ukraine.
DeSantis also hoped floating Haley as Trump’s VP would tarnish her as a Trump stooge and win back some of the Never Trump voters Haley consolidated over the fall.
The Florida governor put his plan in motion by challenging Haley to publicly disavow ever serving as Trump’s running mate.
“I’m the only one that can beat Trump, let’s just be clear on that,” DeSantis declared. “Haley cannot get enough support from core Republicans and conservatives. She’s getting support from people who either aren’t Republicans or are on kind of the 10, 15%, which is fine. I mean, you need those people for it to win the general, but you have to be able to appeal to conservatives and core Republicans. And I’m the only one that can do that.”
DeSantis then tried to concoct a conspiracy theory that the reason Trump didn’t spend any money attacking Haley was because he didn’t want to tarnish a potential running mate.
“There’s a reason why they spend money against me. Haley and Trump spend money against me. He has not spent any money against her and she has not spent any money against him. She will not answer directly, and she owes you an answer to this: Will she accept a vice presidential nomination from Donald Trump? Yes or no? And I can tell you under any circumstance, I will not accept that, because that’s not why I’m running. I’m running for the nomination and to be president. And I’m totally fine, you know, I’d rather be governor than vice president, no question. I can do more for my state and this country without question,” DeSantis added.
Trump hasn’t attacked Haley because she is no threat to win.
A CNN poll from Georgia found Trump leading Haley 55 to 18 among registered Republicans.
Haley led Trump 25 to 24 among independents, but independents aren’t allowed to vote in most GOP primaries which are closed to registered Republicans.
And just to debunk the Haley as VP rumor floated by DeSantis, Donald Trump Jr. went on Newsmax and pledged to do everything in his power to stop Haley – who Trump Jr. called a puppet for the swamp and Wall Street – from ever being his father’s running mate.
NEW: Donald Trump Jr. says he will “go to great lengths” to make sure Nikki Haley is not Trump’s VP pick after his sister in law Lara Trump said “never say never” to a Haley VP pick.
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“I would go to great lengths to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
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— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) December 13, 2023
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