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Trump responds on potential GOP 2024 primary face-off with Ron DeSantis

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  • Former President Donald Trump during a podcast Monday sent a warning to Ron DeSantis.
  • Trump said he had heard DeSantis “might want to run” against him.
  • “So we’ll handle that the way I handle things,” Trump said. 

Former President Donald Trump feels confident about the possibility of facing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in the 2024 presidential race. “We’ll handle that the way I handle things,” Trump said.

In an interview with David Brody on “The Water Cooler” on Monday, the former president was asked if it would be a “bad move” for the GOP governor to jump into the presidential race. Though DeSantis has not officially announced a White House campaign, it’s been widely speculated he is considering joining the GOP primary.

“So you know, now I hear he might want to run against me. So we’ll handle that the way I handle things,” Trump said.

The former president also boasted about his endorsement of DeSantis’s first successful gubernatorial campaign.

“He was at 3[%],” Trump added. “It was all done … I got him elected, pure and simple.”

Late last year, Trump called DeSantis “ungrateful”, an “average REPUBLICAN Governor”, and “Ron DeSanctimonious.”

Recent polls have shown DeSantis beating Trump in hypothetical match-ups. A Yahoo News-YouGov poll released in December showed DeSantis ahead of Trump, 47 to 42 percent, among registered voters.

A separate poll from Vanderbilt University also from last month showed the governor getting 54 percent among registered Republican voters compared to 41 percent for Trump.

Trump released polling of his own from McLaughlin & Associates, a polling firm that had worked on his 2020 campaign, showing him beating DeSantis 58 percent to 36 percent. 

DeSantis’ popularity has risen further after his reelection in the November midterms. It was considered a silver lining by Florida Republicans considering that GOP members experienced a difficult midterm night.

Many candidates who received endorsements from Trump lost their general election races. This led to Republicans questioning whether the former president still holds sway over voters and the GOP.

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Source: New York Post

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2 Comments

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  1. Aloma Arp

    January 19, 2023 at 9:48 am

    What is wrong with the Republicans especially the Speaker of the House to appoint Santos’s on committees? Are the Repubs so afraid of the few radicals they have in Congress that they will use men of such low degree as Santos? McCarthyism is back in full swing in the Republican Party. Joe McCarthy would be proud.

  2. Alma Abercrombie

    January 22, 2023 at 12:42 pm

    If Gov Gov. DeSantis is leading I thank we should fall in and support him. If we don’t we could have another 4 years of a democrat leadership.

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