The detente between former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis (R‑FL) is a boon for Trump and the Republican Party before November.
But with Trump not yet reaching out to former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley, he could be undermining his own reelection campaign by not appealing to her voters.
Republicans, including party strategist Cesar Conda, welcomed primary rivals Trump and DeSantis meeting last weekend in their home state of Florida.
“A Trump-DeSantis meeting shows that Trump is trying to consolidate some voters who might still be upset at the harsh words tossed both ways,” Conda, a founding partner of Navigators Global, an all-Republican lobbying firm, told the Washington Examiner. “It is unifying that Republicans oppose President Joe Biden’s radical left-wing policies.”
“Even former Trump Attorney General William Barr has conceded that Biden is so radical that even Republicans with deep concerns about another Trump term will not hesitate to cast a ballot t …