Trump Report­ed­ly Con­sid­er­ing Ron DeSan­tis For Sec­re­tary Of Defense

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Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump is con­sid­er­ing Flori­da Gov­er­nor Ron DeSan­tis ® to lead the Depart­ment of Defense amid con­cern over the abil­i­ty of cur­rent nom­i­nee, Pete Hegseth, to be con­firmed, accord­ing to the Wall Street Jour­nal.

The Wall Street Jour­nal first report­ed that Trump was con­sid­er­ing nom­i­nat­ing DeSan­tis for Sec­re­tary of Defense as there appears to be a grow­ing num­ber of Repub­li­can sen­a­tors who have expressed con­cern over whether Hegseth would clear con­fir­ma­tion hur­dles.

CBS News con­firmed that mul­ti­ple sources famil­iar with the Trump tran­si­tion team said that DeSan­tis was now under con­sid­er­a­tion for the role.

Sens. Joni Ernst (R‑IA) and Bill Hager­ty (R‑TN) were also being con­sid­ered in addi­tion to DeSan­tis, accord­ing to CNN.

Trump and DeSan­tis attend­ed a Memo­r­i­al Ser­vice togeth­er on Tues­day for Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office Motor Deputies who died in the line of duty.

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Reporter Marc Caputo said that Trump and DeSan­tis first dis­cussed the Flori­da gov­er­nor becom­ing the Sec­re­tary of Defense in June.

Trump and DeSan­tis, the two most pop­u­lar politi­cians in the Repub­li­can Par­ty, bat­tled it out dur­ing the Repub­li­can Par­ty pri­ma­ry with Trump eas­i­ly com­ing out on top and DeSan­tis drop­ping out after the first con­test in Iowa. Trump went on to steam­roll the oth­ers who remained in the race.

When he dropped out, DeSan­tis gave an enthu­si­as­tic endorse­ment of Trump and the Trump cam­paign respond­ed by say­ing that they were “hon­ored” to receive DeSan­tis’ endorse­ment.