Mr. Trump’s earlier supporters have seized on Mr. DeSantis’s departure from the race to declare Mr. Trump the “presumptive nominee,” though only Iowa has voted so far.
Mr. Trump already has the support of Speaker Mike Johnson and the majority of congressional Republicans.
field, all three of those men will appear alongside Mr. Trump on Monday night at a rally in Laconia, N.H., according to officials with the Trump campaign.
(Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, whom Ms. Haley endorsed for president in 2016, backed Mr. Trump shortly before the Iowa caucuses.)
I want to make it a live-free-or-die-country.”Holdouts among top Republicans for Mr. Trump are few and far between.
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