Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley lashed out bitterly at each other even more than they attacked Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump, as they battled for second place in their party’s primary race.
In a televised debate on CNN on Tuesday, Florida governor DeSantis accused Haley, the former US ambassador to the UN, of doing her “donors’ bidding” and being “another mealy mouthed politician who just tells you what she thinks you want to hear”.
Haley responded by calling DeSantis a serial liar who was “mad about the donors, because the donors used to be with him but they’re no longer with him now”. Florida’s governor was upset about “the fact that his campaign is exploding”, she added.