Former President Donald Trump unleashed a fiery monologue against Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Thursday evening after winning re-election with higher-than-expected margins in the Sunshine State.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In a statement sent by Trump’s Save America PAC to his supporters, the former president called DeSantis an “average” Republican governor with “great Public Relations.” The former president also took credit for DeSantis’s 2018 gubernatorial victory that earned him his first term as governor and\u00a0honed in on DeSantis’s response to COVID-19 which has largely been credited as the move which propelled him to national recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the unprovoked attack, Trump also revived the nickname “Ron DeSanctimonious” in what appears the most extreme escalation between the two Florida Republicans to date.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Read the statement below: <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cNewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal, and the no longer great New York Post (bring back Col!), is all in for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious, an average REPUBLICAN Governor with great Public Relations, who didn\u2019t have to close up his State, but did, unlike other Republican Governors, whose overall numbers for a Republican, were just average\u2014middle of the pack\u2014including COVID, and who has the advantage of SUNSHINE, where people from badly run States up North would go no matter who the Governor was, just like I did!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Trump continued by saying that DeSantis was \u201cdesperate\u201d in 2017 and that DeSantis \u201chad low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse him, he could win.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart,\u201d Trump continued. \u201cI was all in for Ron, and he beat Gillum, but after the Race, when votes were being stolen by the corrupt Election process in Broward County, and Ron was going down ten thousand votes a day, along with now-Senator Rick Scott, I sent in the FBI and the U.S. Attorneys, and the ballot theft immediately ended, just prior to them running out of the votes necessary to win. I stopped his Election from being stolen\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAnd now, Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games!\u201d Trump concluded in his attack on DeSantis. \u201cThe Fake News asks him if he\u2019s going to run if President Trump runs, and he says, \u2018I\u2019m only focused on the Governor\u2019s race, I\u2019m not looking into the future.\u2019 Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that\u2019s really not the right answer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, Trump wasn’t done bashing Republican governors and soon turned his ire toward first-term Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin in the second wave of rage-filled statements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n