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Trump scolds evangelicals in a recent interview for abandoning him, promises to 'handle' DeSantis [1]
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Date: 2023-01-17
"So now I hear he might want to run against me. So we'll handle that the way I handle things," Trump added, in his best Vito Corleone impression.
x Trump today on Desantis: “I got him elected, pure and simple. And there was no reason to go wild about endorsing him .. So, now I hear he might want to run against me. So, we’ll handle that the way I handle things.” pic.twitter.com/rBBYyUtnNW — Ron Filipkowski 🇺🇦 (@RonFilipkowski) January 16, 2023
DeSantis has yet to officially announce a run for the White House, but in a December 2022 poll, DeSantis led Trump by 23 percentage points among Republicans.
It’s been over a year since Trump began his attacks on DeSantis. In an interview with One America News, when the former president was asked about the COVID-19 vaccine, the anti-critical race theory governor was the first person Trump threw under the bus.
And Trump’s outbursts have continued. In December, Trump posted a whole temper tantrum post on Truth Social about his unfavorable polling.
"Great polling has just come out on me versus various others, including [President Joe] Biden, but I still have to put up with the same old 'stuff' from The Wall Street Journal, which has lost an incalculable amount of influence over the years, and Fox News, whose polls on me have been seriously WRONG from the day I came down the escalator in Trump Tower,” he wrote according to NBC News.
Dan Eberhart, a GOP donor who is backing DeSantis, told NBC, "DeSantis is rising, and Trump is increasingly scared of being left for dead by the Republican Party … Trump is not going to let DeSantis grab his throne without a fight. We are on the eve of nothing less than a civil war in the Republican Party.”
An NBC source close to Trump responded with, “For every bad poll, there’s a good poll.” And for now, Trump is the only Republican candidate in the race.
Trump didn’t stop his complaints and threats against DeSantis during his Monday interview, though. He also bitched about his lack of support from evangelicals. Trump started by saying, “I don’t really care,” but then called out “disloyalty” in the world of politics.
“Nobody has done more for the right to life than Donald Trump,” he continued.
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