As we neared the date of the midterm elections, Donald Trump began to reveal his true feelings about the Florida governor who was running for re-election…
By Athena Papakosta
Donald Trump has long known that Ron DeSandis was his nemesis within the Republican party, and he went by the adage “keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
By allowing him to “flourish” politically, the former US president helped his transition DeSandis from Congress to the administration of Florida, reminding again and again that without his own support the relatively unknown member of the US Congress would have little to no chance of being elected in one of the largest US States.
For his part, DeSandis has always praised Donald Trump and recently appeared willing to put aside his presidential ambitions since the former US president was feverishly preparing to run for the Republican presidential nomination.
But as we got closer to the date of the midterm elections in the country, Donald Trump began not to hide his true feelings about the governor of Florida who was running for his re-election…
Holding simultaneous pre-election rallies in Florida is the clearest indication of this unbreakable friendship with Trump himself christening the 44-year-old Florida governor ‘DeSanctimonious’ paraphrasing DeSandis’ last name with the word ‘sanctimonious’ meaning ‘pseudo-theo-fearer’.
The simmering feud between the two men took a new turn until DeSandis made it clear publicly that he would not run, and their relationship is expected to deteriorate further after the election results…
The Republican party was sure that in these polls it would be the winner and a giant red wave would rise. In the end, that didn’t happen. The only winner of the US conservative party seems to be Ron DeSandis, who was re-elected governor in Florida. By contrast, most of the candidates Donald Trump supported lost.
The 45th president of the USA is in a very difficult position and in fact at an important moment since theoretically tomorrow he announces his candidacy for the presidential anointing of the Republican party.
So what will he do to survive politically and get what he wants?
For political analysts, reading the future of Donald Trump’s movements is not a difficult equation. The 76-year-old former US president’s playbook follows the rule of annihilation of his political opponents by hitting them where it hurts, over and over again.
As early as last Tuesday, his arrows began to find their target. He has already squared off with yet another potential rival for the party’s presidential nomination. It’s Virginia Governor Glenn Youngin saying his last name sounds ‘Chinese’.
He attacked his beloved Fox News while also targeting any other Murdoch Group Media. And of course he poured his venom against DeSandis as well, calling him a “moderate Republican governor with extremely good public relations.”
The strange thing is that many of Trump’s most loyal supporters see Ron DeSandis as one of them. Many even see the Florida governor as the most suitable successor to Trump, while even those who don’t vote Republican talk about DeSandis as another Trump who just happens to have a better haircut.
Republicans are currently looking for a winner, and a winner among them is DeSandis. In the midterm elections on November 8, he outspent his opponent by 20 points while securing the support of many Hispanics in a state that Trump managed to win in 2020 by just three points from Biden. Some of DeSandis’ supporters are pressuring him not to lose the momentum but to take advantage of it and announce his candidacy as soon as possible.
However, it is too early to tell whether Republican voters will rally behind him despite the fact that more and more are now speaking out against the prospect of Trump. The former US president looks like a weight for the party that wants to return to the White House. At the same time, in the background – and almost silently – are those who hope that Trump and DeSandis will destroy each other so that Republican voters will switch to another candidate.
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