After lambasting GOP Sen. Mike Rounds of South Dakota in 2022 and vowing that he would never endorse the lawmaker again, President Donald Trump issued a full-throated endorsement of the incumbent Republican senator in a Truth Social post on Monday.
Trump previously endorsed Rounds in 2020, but then excoriated the senator in 2022 after Rounds appeared on ABC’s « This Week » and described the 2020 election as « fair. »
« ‘Senator’ Mike Rounds of the Great State of South Dakota just went woke on the Fraudulent Presidential Election of 2020, » Trump declared at the beginning of a lengthy statement in January 2022.
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« Even though his election will not be coming up for 5 years, I will never endorse this jerk again, » Trump later said in the statement.
« The Radical Left Democrats and RINOS, like ‘Senator’ Mike Rounds, do not make it easy for our Country to succeed. He is a weak and ineffective leader, and I hereby firmly pledge that he will never receive my endorsement again! » Trump asserted in that statement several years ago.
But in an about-face, Trump has endorsed Rounds for re-election.
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In a Monday Truth Social post, the president called the senator « An America First Patriot, » declaring, « Mike Rounds has my Complete and Total Endorsement for Re-Election – HE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN! »
Fox News Digital reached out to the White House for comment on Tuesday morning but did not receive a response by the time of publication.
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Rounds thanked Trump for the endorsement on Monday in posts on X, adding, « I look forward to working with you to make America even better! »
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