Donald Trump claims Ron DeSantis cried while asking for his endorsement in 2018.
Trump backed DeSantis for governor in 2018.
—The Republican Accountability Project (@AccountableGOP) February 2, 2023DeSantis was known for being the Trump-backed candidate in the 2018 GOP gubernatorial primary.
In an endorsement tweet on June 22, 2018, Trump called DeSantis a "top student at Yale and Harvard Law School."
In July 2018, while he was running for governor, DeSantis released a campaign video in which he called himself a "pitbull Trump defender."