DeSantis Spokesman Flips And Backs Trump

A former Donald Trump advisor is back in the fold after breaking with the former president and shifting to Ron DeSantis – and now declares that it's time to 'coalesce and unite' behind the former president.

Steve Cortes, formerly a spokesman for the pro-DeSantis superpac Never Back Down, called on fellow Republicans to 'read the room' in a new op-ed after Trump trounced his opponents in the Iowa caucuses. 'Those of us who backed Ron DeSantis – or the other Republican candidates – should read the room. Former President Trump winnowed the field effortlessly and then crushed the remaining three candidates in Iowa. He leads in the polls everywhere else. It is time to coalesce and unite behind the clear preference of the GOP grassroots, Donald John Trump,' he wrote.

He said it was time to 'coalesce' around Trump – the same pitch Trump himself is making to voters while his team calls on his rivals to drop out. 'With the America First movement acting fully in concert, we will win a historic electoral victory that leads to a full restoration of American greatness,' Cortes predicted.