ANAHEIM, California — Former President Donald Trump repeatedly attacked Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) while barely discussing Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL), his top 2024 Republican rival, during a speech at the California GOP convention on Friday.
Along with Newsom, who has emerged as a chief surrogate for President Joe Biden's reelection campaign, Trump lobbed several criticisms of other California Democrats, including Rep. Maxine Waters, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Rep. Adam Schiff. But the lack of repeated attacks against DeSantis is another sign that the former president is moving beyond the GOP primary and acting more as a general election nominee.
He also claimed that he heard Newsom on Sean Hannity's show after the second debate state that"California is wonderful."Trump later slammed Newsom's support of environmental issues."Gavin Newsom and the radical-left Democrats, extremists, the people that run the city in order to save an extremely unimportant, very little, and nonproductive fish in the delta," Trump said.
Trump leads all his Republican competitors in national polling, often by more than 40 percentage points. He currently has 57.1% of GOP support, according to a RealClearPolitics poll average. In comparison, DeSantis is polling at 14% while no other rival polls in theDeSantis has increased his needling of Trump in recent months. The Florida governor took shots at Trump during the debate on Wednesday, including criticizing the former president's decision to snub the event for a second time.
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