The fifth Republican presidential primary debate on Wednesday (hosted by CNN) between Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley was certainly heated; with both candidates taking wild rhetorical swings at each other. And in a post-debate interview, DeSantis showed he still had a lot of fight in him as he schooled CNN’s Anderson Cooper for parroting falsehoods about his campaign that Haley brought up.
“Her criticism of you is that a lot of those donors, which you were criticizing her for, used to be your donors,” Cooper poked, knowing fleeing donors was a bad sign for a campaign. DeSantis immediately pushed back, declaring “That’s actually not true.”
DeSantis went on to point out that Haley had donors who would never support him, including left-wing ones:
I mean, think about it. She’s got the founder of LinkedIn, who’s…