Trump endorsed DeSantis in 2017 over then-frontrunner Adam Putnam, who held a $15 million campaign war chest.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has come out tops in several straw polls asking conservatives who they'd want to see in the White House.Former President Donald Trump has claimed credit for Ron DeSantis becoming Florida's governor.The relationship between the two is"complicated," a lawyer close to DeSantis told
"I don't know that he wants to run. I have a good relationship with Ron, I don't know that he wants to run. I haven't seen that. You're telling me something that I've not seen, so we'll see what happens," Trump told the show's host, Eric Bolling.Trump's on-air comments align with his claims in a New Yorker article about DeSantis published on Monday.
The New Yorker wrote that Susan Wiles, a political strategist who helped Trump win the 2016 election, had managed DeSantis' gubernatorial campaign, but that the governor broke ties with her after he was elected over a dispute.
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