It has been noted that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Tuesday took aim at fellow Republican Mitt Romney, painting the outgoing senator as a member of the “surrender caucus of Republicans” who “never fought for us in the beginning.”
“I don’t really know Mitt Romney,” DeSantis said in response to a question about a Romney-backed gathering of presidential candidates last month.
But a black-and-white photograph from DeSantis’ Harvard Law School yearbook unearthed by ABC News indicates that at one point, DeSantis campaigned on Romney’s behalf.
The image shows the cheerful-looking law student wielding a “Romney for Governor” sign during the 2002 Massachusetts gubernatorial campaign — an election Romney handily won, launching his political career.
A caption on the page describes the school’s “Law Republicans” group as the “voice” of the Republican Party at Harvard Law, aiming “to provide a social community of moderate and conservative Republicans.” The group would “organize community blood drives and a Ronald Reagan birthday celebration,” according to the text.
On Tuesday, DeSantis called Romney one of “the same old, same old Republicans who have never fought for us in the beginning.”
A spokesperson for the DeSantis campaign declined to comment to ABC News.
More than two decades separate DeSantis’ critical comments from the yearbook photo, and both men have undertaken vastly different trajectories in the intervening years.
