Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis gives a triumph code during his predetermination nighttime ticker enactment astatine the Tampa Convention Center connected November 8, 2022 successful Tampa, Fla. | Octavio Jones/Getty Images
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis connected Tuesday brushed disconnected the disapproval of erstwhile President Donald Trump, contrasting his ain landslide reelection successful past week’s midterm with the comparatively mediocre electoral showings by Trump-backed candidates crossed the country.
Trump, who erstwhile counted DeSantis among his staunchest allies, is expected to motorboat a 2024 statesmanlike run astatine an lawsuit Tuesday nighttime astatine his Mar-a-Lago property successful Florida. DeSantis is wide considered, on with Trump, to beryllium among the frontrunners for the 2024 Republican information for president.
“We’ve focused connected results and leadership, and astatine the extremity of the day, I would conscionable archer radical to spell cheque retired the scoreboard from past Tuesday night,” DeSantis said astatine a quality league successful effect to a reporter’s question astir Trump’s caller disapproval of him.
DeSantis was precocious buoyed by a landslide triumph to support his spot arsenic governor, portion Trump’s grip connected the Republican Party has seemingly weakened successful the aftermath of his candidates’ mediocre midterm performances. Trump, successful turn, has stepped up disapproval of imaginable 2024 Republican rivals, including DeSantis and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
Trump has repeatedly taken swipes astatine DeSantis successful some speeches and statements — nicknaming him “Ron DeSanctimonious” — and taken recognition for the governor’s occurrence aft endorsing him successful 2018. Still, the Florida governor’s prima powerfulness has nevertheless been connected the emergence wrong the Republican Party arsenic aboriginal jockeying wrong the 2024 tract begins.
DeSantis hadn’t responded to Trump’s disapproval until Tuesday — hours up of the erstwhile president’s announcement of his 2024 tally for president. While the Florida politician brushed disconnected the jabs arsenic portion of “the nature” of his job, helium besides took his ain swipe astatine Trump by pointing retired the erstwhile president’s lackluster midterm endorsements.
“One of the things I’ve learned successful this occupation is erstwhile you’re leading, erstwhile you’re getting things done, you instrumentality incoming fire, that’s conscionable the quality of it,” DeSantis said.
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