Former president Donald Trump unleashed an explosive attack against Florida governor Ron DeSantis in the wake of what most Republicans are calling a midterm red trickle while the former is celebrating his own successful endorsements.
DeSantis, who proved the exception Tuesday night with a resounding 20% victory over Democrat rival Charlie Crist, has seemingly become the next target of Trump, who likely sees him as his chief political rival in 2024.
Whereas DeSantis absolutely crushed Crist this week, the story was entirely different in 2018, when he was losing his own primary for a long time, and later when he barely won against Democrat Andrew Gillum. DeSantis barely scraped ahead with 49.6% of the vote to Gillum’s 49.2%.
Donald Trump is now trying to take credit for DeSantis’s political career, recognizing that DeSantis poses a legitimate threat to his White House path while simultaneously portraying him as a subpar choice. It’s mixed messaging, if nothing else.
But here is the 2024 presidential contest underway in earnest, as not even the top two choices can unite against the disastrous Democrats:
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) November 10, 2022
NewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the no longer great New York Post (bring back Col!), is all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations, who didn’t have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors, whose overall numbers for a Republican, were just average—middle of the pack—including COVID, and who has the advantage of SUNSHINE, where people from badly run States up North would go no matter who the Governor was, just like I did!
Ron came to me in desperate shape in 2017—he was politically dead, losing in a landslide to a very good Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, who was loaded up with cash and great poll numbers. Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse him, he could win. I didn’t know Adam so I said, “Let’s give it a shot, Ron.” When I Endorsed him it was as though, to use a bad term, a nuclear weapon went off. Years later, they were the exact words that Adam Putnam used in describing Ron’s Endorsement. He said, “I went from having it made, with no competition, to immediately getting absolutely clobbered after your Endorsement.” I then got Ron by the “Star” of the Democrat Party, Andrew Gillum (who was later revealed to be a “Crack Head”), by having two massive Rallies with tens of thousands of people at each one.
I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart. I was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his Election from being stolen.
And now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games! The Fake News asks him if he’s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, “I’m only focused on the Governor’s race, I’m not looking into the future.” Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that’s really not the right answer.
This is just like 2015 and 2016, a Media Assault (Collusion!), when Fox News fought me to the end until I won, and then they couldn’t have been nicer or more supportive. The Wall Street Journal loved Low Energy Jeb Bush, and a succession of other people as they rapidly disappeared from sight, finally falling in line with me after I easily knocked them out, one by one. We’re in exactly the same position now. They will keep coming after us, MAGA, but ultimately, we will win. Put America First and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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