Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis will sit down with CNN’s Jake Tapper on Tuesday for an exclusive interview, the network announced Sunday. As the Florida governor travels across the country for his presidential bid, Tapper will talk to DeSantis following a campaign event in Columbia, South Carolina. The DeSantis campaign also confirmed Saturday that it had let several staffers go last week. National polling shows DeSantis far ahead of most of the GOP primary field but trailing former President Donald Trump considerably. In the first major policy proposal of his presidential campaign, DeSantis last month proposed a sweeping crackdown on illegal immigration, including sending the US military to the border and mass detention and deportation of undocumented people.

Source: CNN July 16, 2023 14:51 UTC