Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is ramping up attacks on former President Donald Trump on the campaign trail four months into his presidential campaign.
However, the notable polling differential between the front-runners doesn’t change.
The choice to challenge the front-runner from the debate stage provided the largest platform for these attacks to date, but it was also just another development in an ongoing verbal exchange with Trump.
More than ever, DeSantis has been vocal and frequent in his criticism of Trump.
DeSantis appeared Thursday in Tampa to announce the endorsement of 60 of Florida’s 67 sheriffs. That included two Democratic sheriffs.
During the event, DeSantis questioned Trump’s electability in the 2024 general election and said people suggest that Joe Biden in 2020 was “such a disaster.”
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“I don’t think anybody voted for Biden,” DeSantis continued. “They were voting against Trump! That’s why they did it. Let’s just be honest.”
“He energized Democrats. You could have John Kennedy walk through the door right now and he wouldn’t energize Democrats as much as Donald Trump does. That’s just the reality,” added DeSantis.
That’s because they can’t wait to get to the polls to vote against him, the Republican presidential candidate added.
Shortly afterward, during a press conference, the governor dismissed Trump’s fundraising figures and asked a rhetorical question: “Well, why is he raising that money, and where is that money going to? Isn’t it going to a lot of lawyers?”
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“What did we do in Florida with these Democrats? We defeated these Democrats. We left the Democratic Party in Florida in a pile of ruins. They’re dead.”
As evidence, DeSantis cited recent voter registration numbers.
Florida now has about 589,000 more Republican voters than Democratic ones.
When DeSantis first ran in 2018, Democrats held a lead among registered voters of about 257,000.
Since 2018, 15 Florida counties have flipped from Democratic to Republican control.
“We’ve never had more Rs than Ds in Florida history,” he noted. “We did that with me being governor.”
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