DeSantis said he talked to Trump amid fight with legislators on immigration laws

Lawmakers are proposing to transfer much of DeSantis’ immigration oversight authority to Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson.

In a private call with a group of supporters on Monday night, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said he talked to President Donald Trump and his advisers as he tries to get support for his version of a state immigration proposal over a dueling proposal put forward by Republican legislative leaders, according to an audio recording obtained by the Times/Herald.

“I spoke with the president today, and I told him I am working on this and we want to be helpful and he was basically, ‘I want as strong as possible, as strong as possible,’” DeSantis told supporters in the call. “Well, clearly, the governor’s proposals are much stronger than what the Legislature proposed.”

DeSantis said he also talked to Trump’s border czar, Tom Homan.

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request seeking comment Monday.

The governor’s conversations with the White House underscore the lengths to which DeSantis is going to knock down a legislative proposal that would undercut his ability to control the state’s immigration enforcement efforts.

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The "renegade" Republican leaders named their proposed legislation the “Tackling and Reforming Unlawful Migration Policy (TRUMP) Act”, so I think Trump is disinclined to help DeSantis out here. He'll probably get a sick kick out of watching DeSantis twist in the wind over this confrontation between MAGAts.