Reince Priebus: Paths Limited for DeSantis, Haley Post-Iowa
The former head of Wisconsin’s Republican Party and the man in charge of this summer’s Republican National Convention says he doesn’t see anyone but Donald Trump getting the nomination.
Reince Priebus told News Talk 1130’s WISN that after the former president’s resounding win in the Iowa Caucuses, Trump is the presumptive nominee.
“I think that Donald Trump exceeded expectations,” Priebus said. “I think that he exceeded the mental threshold that Democrats and people that don’t like Trump wanted to out there. ‘Oh, he didn’t get 50%.’ I think it ended up being 51%.”
Trump doubled the vote totals of both Ron DeSantis and Nikki Halley in Monday night’s caucuses.
Reince Priebus said that kind of victory will make it tough for either challenger to find a path forward, especially DeSantis, Priebus said.
“His play is that he is going to get second in South Carolina. That he’s going to talk to donors about whether any of these cases are going to matter, in regard to President Trump,