Analysis: The former president offered a sprawling attack on his likely 2024 opponent on Wednesday. Some of it was even accurate.
year, albeit a high-turnout one, and came into Election Day with a sizable popularity lead over his opponent.
More important to voters are those claims about cutting Social Security. DeSantis, while running for and then serving in the House,with House Republican leaders, including eventual Speaker Paul D. Ryan , on efforts to revamp Social Security and Medicare spending. It was Republican orthodoxy at the time, a period in which Trump’s engagement in politics was mostly centered on amplifying right-wing cultural fights and attacking President Barack Obama.
Trump did sort of “put Ron there,” meaning as governor of Florida. DeSantis’s energetic defenses of Trump on Fox News drew Trump’s attention, and he endorsed DeSantis’s bid for the Republican gubernatorial nomination in 2018. DeSantis’s campaign that year was over-the-top in comparing DeSantis to the then-president. To wit:
As for Florida being a popular place to live before DeSantis’s tenure, that’s also true. In 1960, it was the 10th most-populous state in the country. By 1980, it was seventh and by 2000 fourth. In 2014, it passed New York to be the third-most populous state.“Surprise, Ron was a big Lockdown Governor on the China Virus, sealing all beaches and everything else for an extended period of time, was Third Worst in the Nation for COVID-19 Deaths , Third Worst for Total Number of Cases, at 7,516,906.
Notice, though, that Florida comes in third on both metrics, according to Trump. But it is also the third-most populous state, so you’d expect those rankings to be what they are.
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