DeSantis Calls His Rivals ‘Spoilers’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ senior advisers are outlining a difficult path to the Republican presidential nomination that can succeed only by first denying Donald Trump “a big win” in Iowa, where the DeSantis campaign is promising to leverage the “vast statewide political operation” of his newest major endorser, Gov. Kim Reynolds, the AP reports.

The memo, distributed late Monday to the campaign’s national donor network and to another group of uncommitted billionaires, argues that other Republican candidates, including Nikki Haley, are at best spoilers.