Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis confirmed Friday he plans to go straight from the Iowa caucuses to the third contest state of South Carolina, but underlined he is not ignoring New Hampshire.
DeSantis said he is stumping in Greenville, the largest city in the Palmetto’s upstate, to take the election fight right to his chief non-Trump rival, former U.N. Amb. Nikki Haley.
Haley, whose campaign received a shot in the arm as of late from the Koch-connected Americans for Prosperity Action, as well as several top-tier GOP donors, has been statistically battling DeSantis for second place behind former President Trump.
After Monday’s caucuses, DeSantis will stop in Greenville on Tuesday before pivoting north to New Hampshire for a WMUR debate, which he told “The Ingraham Angle” he is thus far the only invitee who accepted.
“When I’m president, that’ll be dead on arrival,” he said of the plan, which he and Ingraham critiqued for being too lax on allowing thousands of migrants into the country while earmarking a large sum for Ukraine once more.
“Some of these Republicans are just so out-of-touch with the voters,” DeSantis continued. “I’ve gone to all 99 counties in Iowa. It’s not a border state, and yet every single town hall I do, I get multiple questions about illegal immigration and about the border.”
“Republicans want people that are here illegally to be deported, which we need to do. They want to end these insane border policies that Biden’s doing.”
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