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The war between master and apprentice will indeed take place. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis officially filed his 2024 presidential candidacy with the US Election Commission on Wednesday. He will therefore challenge Donald Trump in a Republican primary that promises to be knife.
In the process, he uploaded his first campaign video, promising to be the candidate for “America’s great comeback”.
The launch into orbit had some hiccups: the interview with Elon Musk live, which was to officially launch the campaign, was disrupted by technical problems for about twenty minutes.
On Truth Social, Donald Trump fired a preemptive salvo on Wednesday morning, recalling that he had obtained more presidential votes in Florida in 2020 than DeSantis during his re-election to the post of governor last November. The ex-president seems to have changed his opponent’s nickname from “DeSanctimonious” (lesson giver) to the shorter “Ron DeSanctus”, who “can’t win the presidential election because he voted to obliterate Social Security (retirements) and even wants to raise the minimum age to 70,” assures the former president. The latter has always taken a much more populist position than the rest of the Republican Party on pensions and senior health, unlike DeSantis.
Air hole in the polls
A former Navy lawyer who graduated from the prestigious universities of Yale and Harvard, Ron DeSantis made his mark in Congress as a representative from Florida between 2012 and 2018. He defeated Democrat Andrew Gillum by a short head to become governor of the Sunshine. state in 2019, before being re-elected in a chair last November.
The contrast with the rout of the Trumpist candidates during the midterms propelled him among the favorites in the Republican primary. But while he was following Donald Trump in the voting intentions, he is now more than 34 points behind the former president (21.1% against 55.5%), according to the RealClearPolitics average.
At 44, the “anti-Wokism” warrior has already raised a war chest of more than 100 million dollars for his campaign and could take advantage of Donald Trump’s legal troubles. Who warned: “I know more about (DeSantis) than anyone, maybe except his wife” Beware of low blows.
