{"id":1910631,"date":"2023-04-06T08:11:01","date_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:11:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-who-supported-trump-endorses-desantis-for-2024\/"},"modified":"2023-04-06T08:17:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-06T12:17:30","slug":"congressman-who-supported-trump-endorses-desantis-for-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-who-supported-trump-endorses-desantis-for-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman Who Supported Trump Endorses DeSantis for 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fcongressman-who-supported-trump-endorses-desantis-for-2024%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910631&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has received an endorsement for the 2024 Republican Presidential nomination from Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky), a former Trump supporter. The endorsement was made by Never Back Down, the super PAC supporting DeSantis and urging him to enter the race. <\/p>\n<p>Massie becomes the second member of the House GOP to endorse DeSantis even before he has entered the race.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The endorsement comes a day after former President Donald Trump pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of felony falsification of business records to the first degree. The latest Real Clear Politics poll shows DeSantis in second place to Trump by a\u00a0substantial margin, but ahead of other challengers.<\/p>\n<h2>Massie\u2019s Endorsement<\/h2>\n<p>In a statement, Massie urged DeSantis to run for President and praised his character and leadership qualities. He said, &#8220;America needs a leader who is decisive, respects the Constitution, understands policy, puts family first, and leads by inspiring.\u201d He also pointed to\u00a0six years of working with DeSantis in the House and witnessing his fight for freedom, liberty, fiscal responsibility, and constitutionally limited government.<\/p>\n<p>Massie added that DeSantis surrounds himself with capable people who share his principles and puts Americans first over corporations, taking on large companies in Pharma, Agriculture, and Tech. <\/p>\n<h2>Massie\u2019s History with Trump<\/h2>\n<p>Massie had been a former supporter of Donald Trump but became the focus of his anger in the final years of his presidency. Trump referred to the congressman as a \u201cthird rate Grandstander\u201d in 2020 after Massie tried to stall a COVID-19 aid package worth $2.2 trillion. However, Trump praised Massie two years later, calling him a \u201cConservative Warrior\u201d and a \u201cfirst-rate Defender of the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Never Back Down\u2019 Super PAC<\/h2>\n<p>The Never Back Down Super PAC supporting DeSantis was founded by former Trump ally and administration official Ken Cuccinelli, who believes that DeSantis is the future and will never back down.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Florida Gov. Ron Desantis has received the endorsement of Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Ky.) for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination prior to even joining the race. In a press release by \u201cNever Back Down,\u201d the super PAC backing DeSantis and calling on him to enter the race, Massie endorsed his former House colleague and governor and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1627,"featured_media":1910632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[4506,5408,4980,9892,9460,3634],"class_list":["post-1910631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-4506","tag-congressman","tag-desantis","tag-endorses","tag-supported","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1627"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}