Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly slammed Republican front-runner Donald Trump on Thursday and defended his own campaign, warning that the former president could deliver the 2024 election to Democrats energized to beat him.
DeSantis, speaking at a campaign event in their shared home state, argued that Trump lost the 2020 election not because more voters supported Democrat Joe Biden but rather to cast him out of office.
Trump remains his party’s most influential figure. He was considering a visit to Capitol Hill next week as Republicans sort out their leadership crisis following House Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s ouster. Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung responded to DeSantis’ remarks by saying: “Ron DeSantis has the energy of used wet rag.”
Attendee Rachel Yates, who said she moved to Tampa two years ago from Chicago, said she likes both Trump and DeSantis. She said a main source of Trump’s appeal in the past was “that he came in as kind of an independent.”Yates also said she liked DeSantis’s message of law and order, symbolized by his endorsement Thursday by 60 Florida sheriffs, but declined to say which of the two candidates she preferred.
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