Former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany had some advice for rising stars in the GOP… but, judging by the media coverage, you’d think she’d said something entirely different.
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Former South Carolina Nikki Haley was once considered a rising star. She even gave the GOP’s response to Barack Obama’s final State of the Union.
Now, Haley is running for president, and reportedly she’s polling at 3 percent.
Now a Fox News contributor, McEnany wants Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to learn from Haley’s current predicament.
“She was the hottest name in Republican politics in 2011 to like 2015, I would say,” McEnany said. “This is the case — what you’re watching right now, polling at 3 percent — for Governor Ron DeSantis to get in right now. People say, will he get in? Will he wait? How can you wait when you are currently the hottest governor in Republican politics, seeing how hard it is to regenerate that attention almost a decade later?”
Take a look —
Kayleigh McEnany says Desantis should announce for president right now: “How can you wait when you are currently the hottest governor in Republican politics?” pic.twitter.com/u2yf0zSyV4
— Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) February 16, 2023
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In other words, McEnany telling DeSantis that — if he ever wants to run for president — then he should run in 2024, instead of waiting until the end of his governorship in 2027.
Still, some commentators spun this remark as McEnany’s attempt to jump off Trump’s sinking ship and secure a spot in DeSantis’s White House.
“Kayleigh McEnany seems to be on Team DeSantis,” one person tweeted.
“This doesn’t figure to sit well with former President Donald Trump,” Mediaite wrote. “Speaking Wednesday on Outnumbered, Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany — the famously loyal one-time press secretary to the former president — praised Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and encouraged him to enter the 2024 race without delay.”
“McEnany is looking for a new gig,” another person said, speculating about a job as DeSantis’s press secretary.
In reality, McEnany was making a case for DeSantis to run in 2024, but she stopped short of endorsing that case.
McEnany still considers Trump a formidable candidate, and she also credits Haley with timing her campaign as well as possible under this year’s circumstances.
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“The toughest part of the fight for her is, I think, going to be taking on Donald Trump,” McEnany said.
“I think it was very smart of her to declare right now, because being the only person in the race against President Trump at this moment, she got a lot of media attention. We’ll be talking about this now and for days to come.”
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