Former United States President Donald Trump attacked Florida Governor Ron DeSantis on Thursday, accusing him of being disloyal, after the southern politician gained support among conservative media as a possible electoral candidate for the 2024 presidential election.
In a statement, Trump assured that his support was vital to DeSantis’s victory in the 2018 local government elections and that the governor is being disloyal by insinuating that he may run as a rival for the Republican Party’s presidential nomination.
When DeSantis is asked if he will run as a candidate, Trump writes, he replies that he is not thinking about the future. "If we talk about loyalty or class, that’s not really the best answer"underlined the statement.
The former president also said that he saved DeSantis’s gubernatorial campaign with his support and accused the conservative media – once his great defenders – of carrying out a "assault" against him by supporting the governor of Florida as a candidate.
"This is the same as 2015 or 2016, when Fox News fought me until I won, and after that they (changed and) couldn’t be nicer to me"Trump stressed.
Some of the main conservative media in the US -Fox News, the Wall Street Journal or The New York Post- began yesterday to turn their backs on the former president, after the Republicans did not obtain the victory they expected in the elections of medium term.
And, as Trump loses popularity, DeSantis, who was re-elected as governor on Tuesday, is gaining favor in conservative circles. Fox News, Trump’s favorite outlet for years, published an opinion piece on Wednesday titled "Ron DeSantis is the new leader of the Republican Party".
DeSantis comfortably won reelection for governor of Florida, a victory that, according to experts, positions him as a presidential candidate.
The partial results of Tuesday’s elections have been very far from assuming the "red wave" (the Republican color) that some predicted for Congress. Although the vote count made little progress on Wednesday, in the case of the Lower House, the projections of the main US media give the Republicans 207 of the 218 seats they need to control it.
The Democrats, for their part, have 184 seats, and more than 40 are yet to be decided. Regarding the Senate, the situation is much less clear: of the 100 seats, the Democrats have 48 secured and the Republicans, 49.