The Republican race to be the next presidential candidate has already begun. Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis are two of the possible protagonists of a future Republican Party primary for the 2024 presidential election. This Tuesday, -before the midterms- the former president hinted that next week he will make his candidacy official. Subsequently, on Thursday, Trump began attacking DeSantis on the likelihood that DeSantis will be his challenger. DeSantis was one of the big winners in the midterms following his re-election as governor.
On Truth Social, Donald Trump called DeSantis "average" for focusing solely on his campaign needlessly and not supporting other races in his party:
DeSantis is an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations, who didn't have to close up his state, but did, unlike other Republican Governors.
Trump added that he "saved" DeSantis' 2018 candidacy from alleged election theft in Broward County, Florida:
I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart. I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his Election from being stolen.
"Ron DeSanctimonius"
"Average" is not Donald Trump's first or only attack on DeSantis. A few days ago, during a rally in Latrobe (Pennsylvania), the former president called the governor of the Sunshine State "Ron DeSanctimonius."
And now, Ron DeSanctimonius is playing!
"Ron DeSanctimonious"
pic.twitter.com/MDawuZcBam- Alex Thompson (@AlexThomp) November 6, 2022
In the 2022 midterms, DeSantis won with a landslide victory by obtaining the support of six in ten Floridians (59.38%), twenty points ahead of Democratic candidate Charlie Crist. Florida's re-elected governor won in 62 of the state's 67 counties.
