The Florida governor, considered to be a possible contender for the 2024 presidential race, is conciliatory regarding the former president
” – expresses support for Trump’s “Make America great again” agenda and pulls punches where they differ.
, a former US ambassador to the UN, entered the primary with a speech that mentioned Trump by name only once and did not rebuke him.and recently imposed sweeping restrictions on books in public schools, uses his own volume to take aim at critical race theory, “woke” ideology and entrenched elites, including those that ruled the Republican party. He scorns the George W Bush foreign policy that led to the Iraq war and genuflects before Trump and his outsider campaign in 2016.
“Since Ronald Reagan flew back to California on January 20, 1989, the GOP grass roots had been longing for someone who rejected the old-guard way of doing business and who could speak to their concerns and aspirations. Trump supported policies that appealed to the base in a way that GOP leaders in the DC swamp had been either incapable of doing or unwilling to do.”
For example, DeSantis dismisses the allegation that Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia as the work of Democrats and their “media armies” after Hillary Clinton’s defeat. “Their joint goal was to kneecap Trump’s presidency any way they could and to drive him out of office entirely.” Trump announced his third consecutive run for president late last year and has already jabbed at DeSantis, claiming that it was his backing that made all the difference in the Republican primary for Florida governor in 2018.recently: “I got [DeSantis] the nomination. He didn’t get it. I got it, because the minute I made that endorsement, he got it.”
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