I don’t understand Trumps hatred of Ron…
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Think back to 2016 when Trump and Ted Cruz were friendly competitors. Until they weren’t. Until Trump got nasty and vicious.
Donald Trump is doing to Ron DeSantis exactly what he did to Ted Cruz some 6 years ago. The trouble is while it might’ve worked back then, it will not work today. Ron DeSantis is not Ted Cruz.
People like and respect Desantis.
I see it though as a warning to DeSantis, not to get too cozy with the GOPe.
Trump didn't get "nasty and vicious," Cruz began a strategy of stealing delegates from the other candidates in April 2016 in advance of the convention. That's why Trump hired Paul Manafort as his campaign manager between the primaries and the convention, to protect his delegates won from poaching at the convention.
It wasn't until Cruz did this that the nastiness began. Trump offered the olive branch of a prime-time speech for Cruz on the penultimate night of the convention, and Cruz used it to pointedly not endorse Trump for President.
The nastiness went both ways, but Cruz started it with the delegate fight.
-PJ