DeSantis Evades Debate Questions on Anti-Israel Ally Massie

In Wednesday night’s Republican presidential-primary debate — the last before Monday’s Iowa caucus — former United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley referenced a point she’s hit on quite often over the past few months: Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s relationship with Representative Thomas Massie (R., Ky.).

DeSantis and Massie have traversed Iowa together in the run-up to the Hawkeye State’s caucus, and Massie’s record on Israel and on antisemitism directly contradict much of the governor’s rhetoric; he has stridently supported Israel over the course of the campaign.

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In Wednesday night’s Republican presidential-primary debate — the last before Monday’s Iowa caucus — former United States ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley referenced a point she’s hit on quite often over the past few months: Florida governor Ron DeSantis’s relationship with Representative Thomas Massie (R., Ky.).

DeSantis and Massie have traversed Iowa together in the run-up to the Hawkeye State’s caucus, and Massie’s record on Israel and on antisemitism directly contradict much of the governor’s rhetoric; he has stridently supported Israel over the course of the campaign.