Former President Donald Trump blasted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis as a 'RINO in disguise' Sunday after previously insisting the governor was a 'very unimportant subject' to him.
published comments by Trump threatening to release dirt on DeSantis if the governor decided to run for president.
Trump later unleashed a more than 400-word tirade against DeSantis, slamming the governor as"average" and lacking"class" and"loyalty." He criticized DeSantis for ordering lockdowns in Florida, saying the governor"didn’t have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors," and he credited himself for DeSantis’ 2018 gubernatorial win against disgraced Democrat Andrew Gillum.
Still, Trump, who formally announced his 2024 presidential run on Nov. 15, a week after the midterms, has repeatedly slammed DeSantis' pandemic response on Truth Social in recent weeks., the governor would win a hypothetical head-to-head match against Trump by a 53% to 40% margin, and he is preferred over Trump among nearly every major voting bloc in the party, except among those earning less than $50,000 a year and people age 65 and older.
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