DeSantis slams the door shut to being Haley’s VP ‘under any circumstance’

Don’t expect a Haley-DeSantis ticket this November.

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis quickly doused cold water on the prospect of teaming up with GOP presidential rival Nikki Haley as her running mate, as she overtakes him in the polls.

The former US ambassador to the United Nations and South Carolina governor extended an olive branch of sorts late last week, indicating that she would “maybe” consider him for her number two.

“I am not going to accept that under any circumstances,” DeSantis replied Saturday in an interview with Fox News’ Neil Cavuto.

“I’m running for president because I think we need somebody that can win and get the job done. I would much rather do my final two years as governor than be vice president. I don’t think it’s a position that offers much. I want to make an impact.”

DeSantis entered the 2024 Republican contest for president back in May of last year as the strongest contender against former President Donald Trump in most polling.

In recent weeks, however, Haley has garnered momentum in the polls, prompting her and DeSantis to ratchet up the onslaught against one another.

“I am going to defeat Donald Trump on my own. That’s the goal that we have. If he wants to join forces with me, I welcome that,” Haley told NBC and the Des Moines Register about DeSantis in a joint interview.

DeSantis and former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie have been hammering Haley over recent weeks about whether she is quietly positioning herself to serve as Trump’s vice president.

“She will not answer directly — and she owes you an answer to this — will she accept a vice presidential nomination from Donald Trump? Yes or no. I can tell you, under any circumstances, I will not accept that because that’s not why I’m running,” DeSantis said last month, per ABC.

His campaign has also launched a website to needle her over the vice president question.

Last week, Christie recounted a conversation with an unnamed South Carolina politician “who knows her really well.”

“I said, ‘Am I reading this wrong?’ And he said to me, ‘Governor, she would eat glass to get the vice-presidential nomination under Trump.’ That’s how ambitious she is,” Chris recalled on ABC’s “The View.”

Haley has repeatedly refused to rule out the possibility of serving as Trump’s runningmate but generally tells voters and the media something along the lines of “I don’t play for second,” when asked.

The former South Carolina governor has also accused her rivals of getting desperate with their attacks over the veepstakes.

“They’ve criticized me for everything. Let’s be clear. That’s what happens when you’re losing,” she told Fox News.

Amid the fervor over Haley becoming Trump’s No. 2, some of the 45th president’s top allies such as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), Donald Trump Jr., Steven Bannon, and others are threatening backlash if she becomes the veep pick.

Voters are set to begin weighing in on the GOP presidential battle with the Jan. 15 Iowa Caucus, which will be followed by the Jan. 23 New Hampshire primary.

Trump is the runaway frontrunner in the early states but faces 91 felony charges and is appealing rulings in Colorado and Maine that bar him from the primary ballot over his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss.

He touts an average of 62.7% support nationally, followed by Haley at 11%, and DeSantis at 10.9%, per the latest RealClearPolitics aggregate.