The once-friendly relationship began to break down as Donald Trump viewed the Florida governor as a threat to his chances of returning to the White House. FOX13
FILE-Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Ron DeSantis speaks as President Donald Trump looks on at a campaign rally at the Pensacola International Airport on November 3, 2018 in Pensacola, Florida. Before Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis were leading rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, they were allies.
"Whatever ends up doing, it does not have legitimacy, when you have all this evidence of tainted and political bias and the disparate treatment between Hillary Clinton and then how they are treating Trump associates," DeSantis told Fox News commentator Lou Dobbs in one such TV hit in December 2017.Before DeSantis entered the Florida governor’s race in 2018, he asked Trump to send out a tweet touting him as a good candidate.
DeSantis initially resisted issuing a statewide stay-at-home order but reversed course and issued it after facing pressure from Trump and White House advisers.At a campaign event ahead of the 2020 election, Trump praised DeSantis and called him a friend but also joked that he would blame the governor if he did not win Florida.Trump ended up winning Florida in 2020 by 3.4 percentage points — a bigger margin of victory than in 2016.
In the days following DeSantis' reelection victory, Trump put out a statement knocking him as an "average REPUBLICAN governor with great Public Relations" and criticizing him for not ruling out a 2024 presidential bid.
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