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PBS News Hour - Segments

Okla. Gov. Stitt says GOP is 'clearly behind Trump' and has 'never been more unified'

PBS News Hour - Segments

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4.11K Ratings

🗓️ 18 July 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Gov. Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma endorsed former President Trump after his first choice, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, dropped out of the primary race earlier this year. Stitt joined Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett at the Republican National Convention to discuss the presidential race. PBS News is supported by - https://www.pbs.org/newshour/about/funders

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Let's turn now to Governor Kevin Stitt of Oklahoma. He endorsed former

0:04.7

President Trump after his first choice Florida, Governor Ron Desantis, dropped out of the

0:08.7

primary race earlier this year. He joins us now. Governor, welcome, thanks

0:12.2

for being here. Absolutely, thanks for having me. Thanks for enjoying this year. He joins us now. Governor, welcome. Thanks for being here.

0:12.9

Absolutely, thanks for having me.

0:14.2

Thanks for enjoying this music with us as well.

0:15.9

So you're tapping your feet.

0:17.2

Absolutely.

0:18.5

Pretty loud in here.

0:19.6

I want to ask you about these calls for unity

0:21.9

that we've heard again and again and we've seen

0:23.7

a lot of unity among the party right now all of Mr. Trump's former rivals have

0:27.8

shown up here to lend their support there's a lot of folks not in the room

0:31.0

though and that's fair to point out as well, his former vice president

0:33.2

president, Mike Pence is not here, your former presidential nominee, Mitt Romney's not here,

0:37.6

former member of House leadership, Liz Cheney is not here.

0:40.8

Is this idea of unity, only unity, if you back President Trump and don't disagree

0:45.2

with him?

0:46.2

Yeah, I don't think so. I think this is just a, obviously I endorse DeSantis early on. I thought we needed someone there for eight years

0:54.8

but the party is clearly behind President Trump it's a great night the party's

0:59.8

never been more unified this is my first time to come here to the convention and it just

1:05.0

feels like there's a lot of momentum on our side. I'd rather be our team than the

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