When asked if he will support Trump if he is the nominee, Desantis refuses to answer and says Trump is “full of it” and “he’s saying things that are false.” pic.twitter.com/VUhUIZ0DZa

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 22, 2023

During an event on Thursday, a reporter asked, “Regardless of his attacks, will you 100% pledge to support Trump as the GOP nominee?”

“What I would say is this, when you are saying that Cuomo did better on Covid than Florida did. You are revealing yourself to just be full of it,” DeSantis responded. …

However, he added, “It’s an important process. And you know, you respect the process and people’s decisions, how it goes. But I’m very confident that those decisions are going to be positive for us.”

[The RNC is requiring a ‘pledge’ from every candidate to support the nominee in order to participate in the debate. One has to wonder how well that will work when Trump is engaging in personal attacks on these same candidates while demanding loyalty for himself, and when Trump and his team are threatening to skip the first debate over the choice of venue and moderators. — Ed]