A former Trump administration official will back Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for president in 2024, should he run — arguing the former president’s penchant for name calling has…
A former Trump administration official will back Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis for president in 2024, should he run — arguing the former president’s penchant for name calling has turned people off.
Donald Tapia, who served as US ambassador to Jamaica from 2019 to 2021, explained his decision to back DeSantis over the 76-year-old former commander-in-chief in an interview with“The name-calling has turned a lot of people off,” Tapia told the outlet. “Let me tell you, we don’t like that.”The retired electrical company executive donated more than $50,000 to DeSantis’ gubernatorial reelection bid and hosted a pair of fundraisers for him, according to Politico.
Former Ambassador to Jamaica Donald Tapia said that Trump’s “name-calling has turned a lot of people off.”Tapia further told the outlet that he predicts a three-day-long retreat for DeSantis to be held at Florida’s Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach will be “overwhelmingly” attended by former Trump supporters.
claiming that in private the former president has been using an ethnic slur against Italians to refer to DeSantis. “I will never call Ron DeSanctimonious ‘Meatball’ Ron, as the Fake News is insisting I will,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
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