Pro-life health care workers urge pro-family policies as major medical institutions push abortion
Pro-life advocates may have faced political setbacks across the country since Roe v. Wade was overturned, effectively granting states the ability to regulate abortion. As thousands gathered in the snow Friday on the National Mall ahead of the march around the Capitol to the Supreme Court, many called for a continued expansion of the pro-life cause to include policies and programs to help mothers and families, not just work on legal battles. “It’s important that we not just combat the harm of abortion that it’s causing our patients, but also recognize why women are oftentimes seeking abortion and do something about that,” Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists (AAPLOG), told Fox News Digital on the sidelines of the March for Life Friday. But some pro-life activists in the health profession told Fox News Digital they see other wins since the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson overturned nearly 50 years of Roe precedent. Doctors and medical professionals are rejecting messages from advocates for abortion. PRO-LIFE DEMONSTRATORS BRAVE DC SNOW FOR 2024 MARCH FOR LIFE “We definitely have seen a growth in our membership in the last two years, especially right after Dobbs. We had a huge increase in membership,” Francis said. AAPLOG’s medical student and resident fellowships increased from about 200 to around 400 since the 2022 Dobbs decision, and total membership increased from 7,000 to around 7,500. In the past decade, the group tripled in total membership. Some new members join AAPLOG due to feeling left behind by the pro-choice stances of the major medical institutions, according to Francis. “What they’re realizing now is that we are under active attack, I would say … not just from pro-abortion advocates, but from our major certifying bodies,” Francis said. “Many of them are seeing the veil has been lifted, I think, on the true position of some of our major medical associations.” The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), according to Francis, has acted inconsistently with many OB/GYNs’ beliefs about providing quality health care. In August 2023, ACOG Interim President Christopher Zahn wrote in a letter to The Washington Post expressing the belief abortion access should not be limited. “Abortion is safe. It improves and saves lives, and it must be available without restrictions, without limitations and without barriers — just as any other critical part of health care,” Zahn wrote. PRO-LIFE GROUPS HAMMER ‘TWISTED ATTEMPT’ BY DEMOCRATIC AGS TO ‘HINDER’ PREGNANCY CENTERS FROM HELPING WOMEN “I think that many physicians are seeing now how radical that position is,” said Francis. “Maybe they’re not exactly in the same position I am on abortion, but they recognize that there should at the very least be some limitation, and there should be safeguards put into place for women’s safety and to ensure that they’re in good care. We really are seeing a lot of physicians and other medical professionals wake up to what’s been going on in our profession for quite some time.” ACOG last year released a fact sheet that dismissed as misinformation some pro-life terms — particularly the claims that abortion defenders want abortion to be legal to the point of birth. “‘[A]bortion up until birth’ or ‘abortion after birth’ are examples of derogatory language used by opponents of abortion access that is not based in facts. Neither is accurate, and neither uses clinically appropriate language,” ACOG’s website states. ACOG also says abortion later in pregnancy is rare and indicates that “something has gone terribly wrong regarding the patient’s health or the pregnancy.” Viewing abortion as something involving a single patient, according to Francis, is one of the issues driving medical practitioners to question the major health groups that insist abortion is health care. PRO-LIFE VOTERS REVEAL HOW THEY REALLY FEEL ABOUT TRUMP’S STANCE ON ABORTION “We know that induced abortion is not health care. It ends the life of one of our patients, and it significantly harms our other patients,” said Francis. “This abortion fight is it’s not just Planned Parenthood clinics and the pregnancy centers, it is in health care today,” said Chris Faddis, president of Solidarity HealthShare. “The health care system is pushing people more and more towards early fetal testing, so they can push people to abortions and their children into, you know, Planned Parenthood for regular female care, so they can get them on birth control and a board of patients and those things,” Faddis said. AHEAD OF MARCH FOR LIFE, MISSISSIPPI UNVEILS MOBILE APP TO HELP PREGNANT MOMS Concerned Women for America President Penny Nance told Fox News Digital a priority for the pro-life movement must be expanding ways for struggling pregnant women and mothers to get assistance, be it public or private. “We know the No. 1 reason a woman chooses abortion is that she isn’t supported,” said Nance. One proposal is a national clearinghouse where a pregnant woman can search her zip code for resources near her — not just medical, but financial assistance, help with bills and food or employment. The idea is similar to a program in Mississippi that launched in the past year to collect public assistance and nonprofits into one searchable database. March for Life has also been a political advocacy group, and in light of recent setbacks at the ballot box for abortion issues, pro-lifers have urged pro-life politicians not to avoid the issue, but to put Democrats on the defensive. “They need to point out the extreme, radical nature of what [Democrats] will do if they get into office and have the majorities in the House, Senate and the White House. It’ll be abortion until birth. In debates, when facing down your Democratic opponent, make him or her defend that,” said Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J.
Republican vying for McCarthy’s seat vows plan on border ‘chaos’ driving exodus: ‘California for Californians’
Californian businessman and philanthropist Kyle Kirkland spoke to Fox News Digital recently about his decision to enter the field of nearly a dozen candidates vying for former Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s vacated House seat, pointing to the border crisis and the restrictive economic regulations that he blames for unfortunately driving talent from the Golden State. Billing himself a “media underdog” among those running in the March 15 nonpartisan primary for California’s 20th district, Kirkland is the owner of Club One Casino and president of the California Gaming Association, the trade group for what amounts to a $5.6 billion industry impacting about 30,000 workers in the state. He said that although he’s relatively unknown nationally, he enjoys a strong local base of supporters who personally know of his decades-long reputation as a “highly effective business person,” namely in Fresno County and the Central Valley. “I’m not a career politician,” Kirkland told Fox News Digital. He said voters want solutions to the high cost of living, crime, the border crisis, inflation, and government regulation amid Washington’s “grandstanding.” In a district former President Trump largely carried in 2020, and that McCarthy represented from 2007 until his resignation in 2023, Kirkland explained what it means to him to be running as a Republican in what’s considered a heavily red area of the widely blue state of California. Though the most populous state, California lost the second-highest number of residents in the nation last year, ranking behind only New York in population exodus. And Kirkland says the migrant crisis and California’s business climate are to blame. “I often joke to people that I live in a red state in the middle of a blue state, right? I’ve been in California now for three decades,” Kirkland told Fox News Digital. “I’m very proud of my roots back east and have brought those values with me to California. I think California has some real challenges… in terms of, you know, messaging that they’re giving to business and messaging that they’re giving to people. We need to keep talent in this state. And the way our economy works now is it’s very easy to work from other areas.” KEVIN MCCARTHY TO RESIGN FROM CONGRESS AFTER BEING OUSTED AS HOUSE SPEAKER “Talent is exiting the state. And I think it’s important for us to recognize that we need – California needs to keep talented people, certainly a lot of talented folks in the state,” he said. “It’s routine for me to be talking to our friends. And they’ve said, oh, I moved to Texas. I moved to Georgia. Oh, I moved to Florida. I’m in South Carolina now. Right. And California needs to recognize that it needs to be California for all Californians and not just, you know, throw open the borders, let everyone in unchecked, you know, and hope for the best.” “I think what’s most important for California to understand is, hey, listen, people, businesses in the state want to know that it’s going to be a friendly environment to them. Where it can be regulated — but there’s a difference between regulation and suffocation,” Kirkland further explained. “And I think that’s what a lot of people feel certainly in the business community that, you know, there’s 900 new bills every year, and they’re probably well-intentioned but probably not well-read and thought through, and they’re dumped upon the business community to try to sort out with, you know, plaintiffs lawyers looking over their shoulder. And that’s a very challenging environment to operate our businesses. So, I’m bullish on California, but we’d be naive to think that, you know, smart people are looking at saying, hey, is there a better opportunity elsewhere?” While grateful to Trump for showing non-career politicians there’s a path to get involved,” and holding “deep respect for Kevin McCarthy,” Kirkland said he wanted to focus on the current race, championing his “unique background” compared to other primary opponents. He’s worked with very large and visible companies, noting how he started his career at Bain & Company, around the same time Mitt Romney was at the consulting firm. In the 1980s, Kirkland said he worked in management consulting for global manufacturers analyzing oil fields during a challenging time for the energy industry. He then took on health care clients and transitioned to finance, working for a Beverly Hills firm very visible on Wall Street. Later, he moved into entrepreneurship, founding a “little fledgling music company,” with a partner that they built through acquisitions, including the global piano company, Steinway & Sons. He said he turned that venture into a company that operated on six continents with 2,500 employees and was the longest running chairman who wasn’t named Steinway. When he sold it, he said the company had the highest product quality and profitability in its history. From his work transforming the gaming industry from a struggling sector in California to now bigger than that of Nevada, Kirkland says he knows first hand what it’s like to deal with California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his administration. CALIFORNIA GOV. NEWSOM TO HOLD SPECIAL ELECTION TO REPLACE FORMER HOUSE SPEAKER MCCARTHY IN MARCH As for the border, Kirkland said he’d bring his “ability to look at complex problems” and be “very realistic” in his approach, while avoiding the “bickering” seen in Washington. “I mean, it’s chaos, right? A direct result of the Biden administration’s policy of, you know, pulling down the no vacancy sign and putting up with basically saying, hey, free buffet, come on in. And what happened was exactly what you’d expect to happen as a business person, where it went from 400,000 folks a year trying to come to the United States to 2.2 million and is overwhelming the borders,” Kirkland said. “I believe in lawful immigration. I think it’s important for the United States, certainly important for the agricultural community and the economy. A lot of folks are here lawfully, legally, and you know, again, to pursue the American dream. I’m all for that.
Trump campaign confident New Hampshire ground game strategy will catapult Trump to third primary win in state
EXCLUSIVE: The Trump campaign is confident its ground game strategy in New Hampshire will boost former President Trump to a third victory in Tuesday’s first-in-the nation primary, touting its state endorsements and enthusiasm on the ground. Trump, who solidified his standing as the frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination after winning the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses Monday night, has shifted his sights to New Hampshire. Trump won the New Hampshire primary in 2016 and 2020. Fox News Digital has learned Trump has received 67 state legislative endorsements in New Hampshire, a figure that exceeds former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ state-level endorsements. TRUMP DOMINATES POLLING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE AND BEYOND AFTER IOWA CAUCUSES VICTORY On the ground in New Hampshire, the Trump campaign has 2,000 active volunteers and a county chair in all ten counties with 250 town captains across the state that deploy door knockers each day. The campaign told Fox News Digital it also has a coalition of military veterans supporting the former president, with more than 150 New Hampshire veterans pushing for his election. Trump surrogates are hosting events across the state in the days leading up to Tuesday’s primary. Sen. JD Vance held a rally in Kingston, N.H., Friday. House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik attended a rally and visited Trump headquarters Saturday. And Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is expected at Trump HQ Sunday. The former president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., is expected to spend Monday on the campaign trail stumping for his father. TRUMP SAYS NIKKI HALEY ‘HAS NO CHANCE’ AHEAD OF NEW HAMPSHIRE PRIMARY: ‘MAGA IS NOT GOING TO BE WITH HER’ Candidate Trump has held multiple rallies and events throughout the weekend and is expected to host several more before New Hampshire residents cast their votes. While Trump is dominating the polls and holds at least a double-digit lead over Haley, some suggest she could perform well in the state due to New Hampshire’s system that allows Independents to vote in the GOP primary. “Nikki Haley and RINO Chris Sununu are shamelessly asking Democrats who registered as undeclared voters to infiltrate the Republican primary and vote for Nikki Haley,” Trump campaign national press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Fox News Digital, referring to the New Hampshire governor who endorsed Haley. “Nikki Haley is dependent on Democrat donors to fuel her campaign and Democrat voters to propel her to the Republican nomination — a losing strategy with two days to go.” Moderate voters in the Granite State are highly influential, and the state’s independents — who can vote in either major party primary — have long played a crucial role in New Hampshire’s storied presidential contest. New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu endorsed Haley, but in an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, he said it was “troubling” that some Democratic voters will “switch” to be independents to vote in the primary. Leavitt, who formally joined the campaign as press secretary this week after serving as spokesperson for the MAGA Inc. super PAC, is more than familiar with New Hampshire. Leavitt is a Granite Stater and ran for Congress in 2022 to represent New Hampshire’s 1st Congressional District. “Republican and commonsense Granite Staters realize that Nikki Haley is a liberal who believes in policies that are the antithesis of New Hampshire values – open borders, higher taxes, bigger government and cuts to Social Security,” Leavitt told Fox News Digital. “The most motivated voters in this state are Republicans and Independents who know Donald Trump made their lives better by securing the border, rebuilding the economy and bringing down our sky-high energy costs.” Beyond that, Leavitt said New Hampshire residents have been “hit hard by the fentanyl crisis,” but said that, in 2018, “thanks to President Trump’s border and law enforcement policies, opioid overdoses decreased here for the first time in many years.” “Thanks to Joe Biden, they have risen again,” she explained. “Nikki Haley is not strong enough to secure the border and impose the harshest of penalties on illegal immigrants and drug dealers. Only Donald Trump can.” Separately, Leavitt blasted Haley on her federal sales tax proposal. “Everyone in New England flocks to shop in New Hampshire because we do not have a sales tax. Nikki Haley wants to implement a 23% national federal sales tax. This would hurt New Hampshire’s economic advantage and, most importantly, crush the middle and working class,” she explained. “For the people of this state to think about having to pay 23% more every time they buy something is scary, especially when many are already suffering from Biden’s inflation.” Meanwhile, the Trump campaign is confident that, even with Independents voting Tuesday, Trump will be victorious. “Nikki’s inevitable defeat in New Hampshire after her embarrassing third-place finish in Iowa should end her campaign for good,” Leavitt said. “But if she stupidly decides to continue campaigning after yet another loss, Nikki will be signing her political death certificate in her own home state of South Carolina.” Trump, during an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity Thursday, said Nikki Haley “has no chance” in New Hampshire, saying “MAGA is not going to be with her.”
GRAPHIC PHOTOS: Animal welfare groups call on Biden admin to address ‘thousands’ of dogs abandoned by migrants
FIRST ON FOX: Animal welfare groups are calling on the Biden administration to address a large number of abandoned pets at the southern border. Fox News Digital obtained photos and videos of pets in Colony Ridge, Texas, from animal advocacy group Boots on the Ground that were reportedly abandoned by migrants, including some that appear severely neglected or injured. Scores of animals have been abandoned at the U.S.-Mexico border as illegal immigrants flood into the country in record-breaking numbers. Immigrants who are apprehended by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) are often forced to leave their animals behind because animals are not allowed inside federal processing centers. AS HISTORIC NUMBERS OF MIGRANTS CROSS THE BORDER, THEIR DOGS ARE OFTEN ABANDONED ALONG THE WAY Chase Scott, spokesperson for Big Dog Ranch Rescue (BDRR), a dog rescue group, told Fox News Digital the “number of abandoned dogs along the border is in the thousands,” and the Biden administration is “doing virtually nothing” to address the situation. Scott said BDRR “can lead this effort” but needs “donations or help from FEMA to address this issue.” He called on FEMA to provide “a dozen spay [and] neuter vans to stop the overpopulation” and “transport and medical supplies,” so they “can heal and rescue the dogs and get them into loving homes.” “We need to act now before this becomes completely out of control,” Scott said. “Colony Ridge is a huge migrant shanty town with starving dogs trying to eat chickens and livestock, so the migrants shoot them and attack them with machetes. The local communities are heartbroken and overwhelmed. They are turning into a Third World [country] with roaming packs of dogs.” ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT POPULATION SOARS UNDER BIDEN: GOVERNMENT DATA Scott said BDRR is heading to McAllen, Texas, this weekend on a rescue mission for the abandoned dogs after having gone to the Texas border city of Eagle Pass last year. Scott said the dogs in McAllen, Texas, “are being fed” by the National Guard, “but with the cold fronts, the situation is dire,” and BDRR will be rescuing the dogs there first. After McAllen, Scott said BDRR will head “into the primary area with the largest issue,” adding “ground zero is Colony Ridge.” BORDER NUMBERS FOR DECEMBER BREAK MONTHLY RECORD, AS BIDEN TALKS AMNESTY WITH MEXICO Bianca Gracia, president of Latinos for America and Latinos for Trump, told Fox News Digital what “is happening at Colony Ridge with the abandoned and abused dogs who are voiceless is a tragedy caused by elected officials’ open border policies. “We are asking America to step up and help us rescue these voiceless furry friends from a life they did not choose.” Animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) told Fox News Digital it has received reports that it’s not just dogs and cats being abandoned. Animals like guinea pigs have been left too. WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES Catie Cryar, spokesperson for PETA, told Fox News Digital that abandonment “is awful — no matter which side of the border it occurs on.” “PETA has received reports that animals as varied as guinea pigs and small dogs have actually been brought in by people entering the U.S. from Mexico, but we know that the border processing facilities don’t allow it,” Cryar said. “We have also heard of an informal network of people on the Mexican side who are looking after animals who have been denied entry,” she added. “Many animals are a cherished, integral part of the family and, just like children, should not be separated from that family. “PETA is calling on the Biden administration to allow animals into the U.S. if they are vaccinated or can be quarantined.” The White House referred Fox News Digital to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) when asked for comment. “CBP follows CDC guidance with respect to the admission of dogs and other pets into the country,” a spokesperson for CBP said. “If the pet’s owner is an inadmissible noncitizen in DHS custody and an animal’s owner does not transfer possession to family or friends, U.S. Customs and Border Protection works with local officials from animal health services, such as a local humane shelter, to see if there can be placement for the animal while its owner remains in custody.” Fox News Digital also reached out to FEMA and the National Guard for comment. MAYORKAS TELLS BORDER PATROL AGENTS THAT ‘ABOVE 85%’ OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS RELEASED INTO US: SOURCES The shocking photos and footage obtained by Fox News Digital show the harsh reality faced by the dogs and other animals abandoned by their owners as they enter the U.S. at the southern border. The footage depicts abandoned animals in the migrant community of Colony Ridge, Texas, a collection of subdivisions outside Houston. Colony Ridge is a controversial locale, having made headlines after being sued by the federal government for allegedly hooking Latino buyers up with seller-financed mortgages to set them up for defaulting on their loans. Colony Ridge CEO John Harris told Fox News Digital in a statement that “Colony Ridge has done everything conceivably possible to rid the problem of stray dogs and cats and animals throughout the area. “We have donated consistently $20,000 a year to help solve the problem to the local group that kind of helps spay and neuter and house these animals,” Harris said. “So, we are doing our part without question.” Harris noted that Liberty County, which houses Colony Ridge, is a “rural area” that doesn’t have an animal control group, and that if one goes “anywhere in a rural county in America, and especially here in Texas, you’re going to have stray dogs and cats and other animals.” “That’s just a fact,” Harris said. “But we are doing everything we possibly can to curb the problem.” Harris also said “90%” of Colony Ridge residents “come from Harris County,” 40 miles to the south. “The animal issue is not an immigrant issue. It’s an issue that stems from bad owners who need
WATCH: Migrants claim asylum on cold January night as CBP union leader talks border crisis
It was a frigid night along the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas when a group of about two dozen migrants, including unaccompanied children, were met by border officials after making the dangerous trek to claim asylum near midnight Friday evening. “We have 22 people. One of them is a single adult male. The rest of them are either family units or unaccompanied children,” Chris Cabrera, vice president of the National Border Patrol Council, told a small group of reporters standing just feet away. “I believe there’s four unaccompanied children ranging in age from 7-11. There’s also a family unit. One of them has a little boy that’s approximately 16 months old.” Cabrera said they were from Venezuela, Nicaragua and Ecuador. After turning themselves in to Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents, they then boarded buses on the U.S. side, where their asylum claims will be further processed. ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT POPULATION SOARS UNDER BIDEN: GOVERNMENT DATA But it’s not just asylum seekers agents encounter there, Cabrera explained. “You have runners in the same area … and then you’ll see a lot of drugs coming through here. And, at times, you’ll have money or guns going south through here. You’ll have people trying to smuggle it into Mexico.” Migrant encounters at the border have fallen off this month, the union spokesman said, but not before agents were overwhelmed by more than 300,000 people encountered in December, a record high. “I remember there were times when you’d have one, two agents and 400 people,” he said. BIDEN ADMIN EYES MORE DEPORTATION FLIGHTS TO VENEZUELA AS MIGRANT NUMBERS SHATTER RECORDS He spoke to reporters near a port of entry in McAllen, Texas, about 100 yards away from where the Rio Grande acts as a border between the U.S. and Mexico. Ladders were strewn across an open field that had been used by migrants to scale the 15-foot drop beyond the wall. Cabrera said the ladders were used to try to bring people in illegally, mostly by human smugglers, in a “coordinated effort.” “At any given time, you’ll have 40, 50 people giving themselves up at this point,” he said. “And while our agents are doing paperwork on them … you’ll have three different groups within half a mile of here, throwing ladders up on the wall … knowing we can’t handle all the people we’re writing up and who’re climbing the wall at the same time.” The CBP veteran, who has more than two decades’ experience in the field, said the environment he is working in has “changed dramatically” in recent years. “It used to be we would have a downtime. We had a busy season. … People were coming in to work the fields, to pick crops and stuff like that. And then everybody would go home in November, December and start their journey back north again at the beginning of the year,” Cabrera said. “This past year, we had record number of apprehensions in December. They’re not coming to pick crops in December.” Cabrera noticed a change in the people arriving. “Not everybody’s coming to work,” he said. “They’re coming in for, you know, for asylum, or the illusion of asylum. “Living in the bad neighborhood is not what asylum is. Not finding a job is not asylum. Fleeing from religious persecution, that’s asylum. But, for some reason, this administration decided that asylum is whatever they want it to be,” he said. The record surge of undocumented migrants since 2021 has strained local infrastructure in Texas and other areas along the border. It’s also caused problems for large Democrat-run cities where migrants have been sent, like New York City, Chicago and Washington, D.C. The next day, Cabrera pointed out that the flow of illegal drugs was hitting areas further north as well. “We don’t have a heroin problem in the Rio Grande Valley. We don’t have a meth problem in the Rio Grande Valley. It comes through here, but it doesn’t stay here,” he said. “We don’t have MS-13. … They’re in Virginia, Maryland and D.C. They come through here, but they don’t stay here. They’re going to your areas.” It comes as Democrats and Republicans in Washington negotiate policy changes to help control the border crisis, with the GOP pushing for stricter measures than the left has so far accepted. Cabrera was concerned the message to D.C. was “falling on deaf ears” and pleaded with federal officials to put party affiliation aside. “They need to put this aside as a partisan issue. It’s not. It needs to be something that gets fixed for the good of this country,” he said.
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Trump teases DeSantis over Fox interview about Iowa results: ‘Short circuits’
Former President Trump joked about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis “short circuit[ing]” during a tense interview on “Your World” Friday. “Ron DeSanctimonious short circuits when confronted with the fact he didn’t win a single county in Iowa,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. The former president posted an interview that Fox News host Neil Cavuto conducted with DeSantis. TIM SCOTT ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP AHEAD OF NEW HAMPSHIRE’S PRIMARY “You look at Iowa. Um, you know, we did it, right?” DeSantis said during the program. “I mean, we got the endorsement of the governor. We won the debates, the Miami debate, the Newsom debate, the NewsNation debate, the CNN debate. We did televised town halls, you know, got a great response.” “But you didn’t win a single county, right?” Cavuto responded. “I mean… You didn’t win a single one. You visited them all, to your credit, but you didn’t win a single one.” “But I also had, I mean, you know, how many people would have been able to handle $50 million in ads?” DeSantis fired back. “How many people would have been able to handle all the headwinds we did? I mean, we had a very uphill battle.” “We dug in and we executed, and we did run hard. We did do well,” he added. On Saturday, DeSantis abruptly canceled two Sunday appearances planned for NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CNN’s “State of the Union” with Jake Tapper, and is headed to New Hampshire for Tuesday’s presidential primary. RON DESANTIS ARGUES TIM SCOTT ENDORSEMENT OF DONALD TRUMP IS ‘A BLOW’ TO NIKKI HALEY “The media hits were canceled due to a scheduling issue and will be rescheduled,” DeSantis press secretary Bryan Griffin posted on X. At his Saturday night rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump took the opportunity to criticize the DeSantis. “In short, if you want a losing candidate who puts America last, vote for either one of them: Nikki Haley or Ron DeSantis,” Trump said to the crowd. Fox News Digital reached out to the DeSantis campaign for comment. Fox News Digital’s Brie Stimson contributed to this report. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.