Trump meets with his former rival DeSantis in Florida to join forces

Former president and virtual Republican presidential candidate donald trump and his old rival, the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantismet this Sunday in private at a golf club in Miami close a truce and join forces for the rest of the election campaign, as reported today by The Washington Post.

On Sunday, when DeSantis played golf in Shell Bay ClubClose of Miami, trump joined him for lunch and private conversation, according to the Washington Post.

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This was the first meeting Trump and DeSantis since the governor abandoned the fight for the presidential candidacy in January in which, six months ago, he seemed to be Trump’s main candidate.

trumpwho spared no derogatory expressions towards DeSantis At the time of primary elections, he is involved in a criminal trial in New York for hiding payments in exchange for silencing a porn actressbut took advantage of the break in the hearings to travel to Florida this weekend.

The cost of legal defense trump is draining funds from the presidential campaign of the Republican partyimpacting the campaigns of many other Republican politicians competing at the state level.

As reported Politicalthe meeting took place through Steven Witkoffpresident of a real estate company and friend of both, and it was at the request of the governor DeSantis.

Another source, this one from the campaign trumptold NBC that it was DeSantis who took the initiative two weeks ago requesting Witkoff organize a meeting to “bury the hatchet” and talk about campaign financing.

In turn, the chain Fox News television station, which cited its own sources, indicated that the meeting lasted several hours and in it DeSantis agreed to help so that trump shorten the lead in campaign funds that the Democratic candidate and president has Joe Biden.

DeSantis has been very effective in fundraising and during his campaign for re-election as governor in Florida He accumulated more than 200 million dollars and a large part of this treasure was later used in his campaign for the presidential candidacy.

Source: Elcomercio

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