Fox Host Tries Nudging DeSantis and Haley Out of the Race
Trump's rivals ought to think about their political futures, Laura Ingraham says
After Donald Trump ran away with a victory in the Iowa caucuses Monday evening, a well-known Fox News host appears to be hinting that his most prominent rivals should drop out and allow the former president to carry on with the Republican nomination unopposed.
Trump won the nation’s first contest for the Republican nomination for president, capturing 51 percent of the vote — far and away more than either runner-up Florida Gov Ron DeSantis at 21.2 percent or third-place finisher Nikki Haley, the one-time governor of South Carolina.
Wealthy businessman Vivek Ramaswamy trailed through the evening, and announced that he was getting out of the presidential race.
Now Fox News host Laura Ingraham seems to want DeSantis and Haley to follow suit.
Trump, DeSantis and Haley next face off to compete in the New Hampshire primary next Tuesday for the nomination to take on President Biden in November.
But Ingraham seems to think that it's time for Trump's opponents to clear the field.
“It’s a moment for I think a lot of these candidates to decide what role they want to have in the Republican Party going forward,” she said, on-camera Monday evening as Iowa results were being tabulated. “And I’m not here to tell anyone to drop out — I think that the wrong thing to do — but at some point you have to sort of ask yourself, ‘Is this a moment that [George HW] Bush had with [Ronald] Reagan in 1980 where he had to decide, we don’t agree on most issues, but I want to have a future in this party and I might even want to be on his ticket? What is my role in the future Republican Party?’
“This is a populist party, there’s no doubt about it in my point of view, and we will see New Hampshire. But there was a lot of money spent, I guess Nikki Haley did okay. But Donald Trump coming to this haze of media coverage against him is pretty stunning,” she added.
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