Former President Donald Trump is as soon as once more taking purpose at Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis with a brand new nickname.
“GREAT POLL NUMBERS. LEADING BIDEN, DESANCTUS, AND ALL OTHERS BY A LOT,” Trump wrote in a Wednesday night submit to his Truth Social account. “MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!”
Trump used the similar nickname for DeSantis previous this week as he tried to distance himself from the possible 2024 GOP presidential candidate, who might be Trump’s largest political problem — if he comes to a decision to run — a number of the rising box of applicants.
Responding to Trump’s submit about DeSantis, New York Times reporter and Trump critic Maggie Haberman, who has stated she is acutely aware of Trump’s insults against DeSantis in informal conversations, claimed the previous president’s new nickname for the Florida governor may “offend some religious voters as he claims he’s not experimenting with new ones.”
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Former President Donald Trump, left, introduced a brand new nickname this week for Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. (Scott Eisen, Spencer Platt)
Trump, who introduced ultimate November that he can be making a 3rd run for the White House, hasn’t taken kindly to hypothesis that DeSantis may input the race for president subsequent 12 months. In fresh months, Trump has centered DeSantis in speeches and posts on Truth Social.
Earlier this month, Trump referred to DeSantis as a “RINO GLOBALIST” and took factor together with his dealing with of the coronavirus pandemic.
“The real Ron is a RINO GLOBALIST, who closed quickly down Florida and even its beaches. Loved the Vaccines and wasted big money on ‘Testing.’ How quickly people forget!,” Trump claimed in a submit to Truth Social.
Haberman claimed previous this month that Trump additionally “has insulted Mr. DeSantis in casual conversations,” calling him “Meatball Ron” or “Shutdown Ron,” a connection with coronavirus restrictions the governor enacted in Florida.
“All of the Fake News is reporting that I spend large amounts of my time coming up with a good ‘nickname’ for Ron DeSanctimonious, who is obviously going to give the presidential ‘thing’ a shot,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in line with Haberman’s reporting. “They are all 100% wrong, I don’t even think about it — A very unimportant subject to me!!!”
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Trump has denied spending “large amounts” of time arising with nicknames for the preferred Florida governor. (Jayme Gershen/Bloomberg by way of Getty Images)
DeSantis, a former congressman who has witnessed fashionable make stronger amongst conservatives in Florida and nationally, has but to claim his 2024 intentions.
Long speculated to go into the 2024 presidential race, DeSantis used to be re-elected to function the governor of Florida by means of 20 share issues in November or even gained the vote in blue-leaning Miami-Dade County.
While it stays unclear whether or not he’s going to make a run for the White House, DeSantis has dropped a lot of hints that he could also be taking into account a presidential bid since his re-election victory speech ultimate 12 months.
DeSantis used to be requested in February all through a information convention whether or not he intends to practice in former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s footsteps and search the GOP nomination for president.
Republican gubernatorial candidate for Florida Ron DeSantis waves to the gang all through an election night time watch birthday celebration on the Convention Center in Tampa, Florida, on November 8, 2022. (GIORGIO VIERA/AFP by way of Getty Images)
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“Wouldn’t you like to know,” DeSantis responded with amusing.
Sources in DeSantis’ wider political orbit say any presidential marketing campaign release wouldn’t happen till overdue spring or early summer time, after the top of Florida’s present legislative consultation. But Republican assets verify to Fox News that the governor’s political crew has already began attaining out and figuring out operatives for a possible White House run.
Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this text.
