Marc Caputo:
Well, she worked for Donald Trump in 2016 running his Florida campaign, when people thought and when the polling showed that he wouldn’t win Florida. And he won, and Trump was very happy about that.
But Susie Wiles’ first big race in Florida was Rick Scott’s in 2010, when he ran for governor. And, at that time, Rick Scott looked like he had no prayer of winning the state. He did. Wiles got a lot of the credit. Then, in 2016, you had Donald Trump run his race.
In 2018, Ron DeSantis ran his gubernatorial race, and when things were going real south for him, who did he call? He called Susie Wiles. Now, the two of them had a falling out. That wasn’t Wiles’ fault. That was a result of Governor Ron DeSantis’ paranoia an inability to accept the fact that people were giving her a measure of credit for his win, which he just couldn’t stand.
So he tried to wreck her reputation and her career. She got back on her feet, got back on President Trump’s reelection campaign in 2020, working in Florida again. She helped him win the state. Obviously, he lost that race.
But he realized in 2021 when he was in a real bad spot, no one thought he could make comeback,it was after January 6, and he wanted to give it another whirl. And he wanted to make sure he had someone confident, somebody he could trust, someone who wasn’t going to sort of self-promote and cause him trouble.
And really only one name rose to the top of the list. That was Susie Wiles. And President Trump was very happy he made that decision.
