.GovRonDeSantis has not announced his candidacy for president, but that is not stopping Trump's team and his allied PAC from conducting extensive research into DeSantis's record to build a strong opposition case in the event that the two go head-to-head.
Since launching his campaign in November shortly after the midterm elections, Trump has zeroed in on DeSantis as his primary challenger. With DeSantis's overwhelming reelection victory, he was already viewed as Trump's biggest threat and a rising star within the Republican Party.
"The more and more that gets highlighted the more DeSantis is going to get exposed as just another member of the establishment and compared to Jeb Bush," Lanza said. However, the attempts of Trump's team to link DeSantis to soft-on-prosecution claims could prove to be high-risk with a chance of backfiring. Allies close to the governor say he pursued"the strongest sentences he could" and to say he was lenient is inaccurate.
The former president has also blasted DeSantis for backtracking his views on changing the retirement age and privatizing Medicare and Social Security, a hot-button topic that escalated after President Joe Biden claimed Republicans were aiming to slash Social Security and Medicare benefits as part of their spending bill negotiations. The former president pitched himself as the only one who could protect seniors and their benefits.
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