Having logged months speaking on behalf of the former president, Fox News host Kayleigh McEnany asserted what specific tone would be needed to win back the White House.
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Alongside her co-hosts on “The Big Weekend Show,” the former White House press secretary who hadd served throughout the end of former President Donald Trump’s administration picked up on the unity message circulating throughout conservative circles.
Even before Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis had suspended his own bid for the presidency Sunday, the need for Republican voters to come together had grown paramount toward unseating President Joe Biden.
Reacting to Trump’s gracious words about DeSantis’ “great campaign,” McEnany leaned into the importance of maintaining what was dubbed a “conciliatory tone” to curry favor with suburban women voters.
“I think [Trump] gets the DeSantis voter both in the primary and the general. The DeSantis voter tends to be a traditional conservative person of faith, and that naturally translates to Donald Trump,” she laid as the combative primary was left behind as little more than politics.
“Where I think his challenge is both here and going forward into a general election, is winning over the Nikki Haley voter, winning over the establishment voter, winning over the independent, which is why I think that vice presidential pick is so important,” continued McEnany. “You must pick someone who helps to bring in that bloc because I believe the conservatives, the base, is going to come home, show up rain or shine. You need the independent. You need the suburban women. You need that tone.”
Following the governor’s campaign suspension Sunday, he had promptly held to his pledge to back the ultimate Republican nominee and endorsed Trump while knocking “the old Republican Guard of yesteryear — a repackaged form of warmed over corporatism — that Nikki Haley represents.”
Included in the myriad reactions from conservative voices was a statement from the president during an event in Rochester, New Hampshire. “I’d like to take time to congratulate Ron DeSantis and of course a really terrific person who I’ve gotten to know, his wife Casey, for having run a great campaign for president.”
Trump went on to add, “I look forward to working with Ron and everybody else to defeat Crooked Joe Biden.”
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Fox News co-host and Townhall.com political editor Guy Benson described the remarks as having a “conciliatory tone” toward the need to unify against the left as he suggested, “To beat Joe Biden, there will need to be unity on the right. And it starts with treating potential allies as they drop out, the way that we actually just heard from Trump, which is a little bit out of character for him. But I think strategically it makes sense.”
Washington Times opinion editor Charlie Hurt added about the hostile tone witnessed so far on the campaign trail, “Oh, this is politics. They can patch anything up.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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