Posted on 11/15/2022 10:11:45 AM PST by RummyChick
Republican Florida Governor Ron DeSantis dismissed Donald Trump's recent spate of angry attacks against him as 'noise' and touted his own strong election record in the 2022 midterms during a press conference on Tuesday.
DeSantis fired back at the former president hours before Trump is expected to announce another campaign for the White House at his Mar-a-Lago estate on Tuesday night.
It's the latest hit in the two GOP giants' Sunshine State turf war, and a larger fight for control of the Republican Party.
DeSantis has enraged Trump by refusing to rule out a primary challenge against him in 2024. The former president has responded by calling the governor 'disloyal,' 'average' and 'Ron DeSanctimonious' amid a flurry of other insults.
Asked about that criticism on Tuesday, DeSantis suggested he was unfazed - but went out of his way to target 'the corporate media' more directly than the former president.
'When you're leading, when you're getting things done, yeah you take incoming fire - that's just the nature of it,' DeSantis said.
'I roll out of bed in the morning, I've got corporate media outlets just having a spasm over the fact that I'm getting up in the morning. And it's constantly attacking, and this is just what's happened.'
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Thus, we eat our own.
Typical hyperbolic headline trash from DM.
Ron can’t win the primary if Donald is running.
DeSantis will be eaten. Shame about that.
But at least we have primary voter fraud to look forward to. Let’s see those 70-30 polls turn into 50.1-49.9 spreads on day 3.
If we can’t have good government, at least we can be entertained.
The scoreboard that tells us how much the rino sabotage and dem/rino voter fraud won?
DeSantis, who could EASILY wait until 2028 and not cause this chaos in the MAGA camp, is a snake and an opportunist. Up until these last few days, I have loved him as Governor and was thrilled to think of him taking the reins in 2028. The real MAGA base will NOT come out for him. Congrats, swamp dwellers. It’s back to the establishment party.
Someone should tell Ron that Tuesday was an "engineered election", crafted for the very Narrative in the headline.
If he was bright, he'd know that.
Trust me, if Vince and DJT actually fought, Vince would win in about 10 seconds. Vince is STILL jacked.
Trump/Lake
Two junkyard dogs, but one is far more refined. 😎
I'll bet he doesn't step down from Governor to run...that tells me he knows he'll lose.
IT’S ON - much to the delight of the Deep State. If these two go scorched earth on each other, the Democrats could win with the Laughing Hyena at the top of the ticket. This is better news for them than stealing another election and getting away with it.
VDH suggested he may be just another Scott Walker.
Remember that guy??
Neither do I.
:-)
2016: Trump can’t possibly win.
2022: DeSantis can’t possibly lose.
i liked it better when he was staying above the fray but I do understand why he felt the need to reply to the multiple attacks from trump
His statement about checking Tuesday’s results were to the MSM, NOT Trump. He said nothing about Trump.
Agree.
DeSantis didn't mention Trump's name even once despite being goaded by the reporter.
headline does not match the story ... more media bullcrap ...
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