Attacks on rivals: Trump wants to discredit DeSantis

Attacks on competitors
Trump wants to discredit DeSantis

03/14/2023 02:51 am

Donald Trump is campaigning for a return to the White House. Along with Ron DeSantis, a dangerous intra-party challenger is in the starting blocks. Although he has yet to announce his candidacy, he has already been the target of Trump’s verbal attacks.

Former US President Donald Trump has attacked his party opponent Ron DeSantis for past social policy stances. Trump told supporters during a campaign rally in Davenport, Iowa, that DeSantis has supported cuts to Social Security and Health Insurance benefits in the past and advocated significantly raising the retirement age. Many people don’t know this. Since he is president, there will be no such actions, Trump has promised.

A few months ago, the former president became the first Republican to announce his candidate in the next election. Next to Trump, DeSantis is considered the most promising intra-party candidate and thus the biggest competition for the former president. DeSantis is also expected to run for president – but the 44-year-old has yet to declare himself.

Trump said he continued to lead DeSantis in the polls, mocking him again as “Ron DeSantis” and “Ron DeSanctimonios.” “Sancmonious” means hypocrisy in German. Trump is known for coming up with derogatory nicknames for political opponents, calling current US President Joe Biden “Sleepy Joe”.

The next choice is the final battle

With the upcoming presidential election in 2024, Trump is trying to use apocalyptic rhetoric: “2024 is the last war,” he said in Iowa. Addressing his potential constituents, he declared: “If you put me back in the White House, the reign of the corrupt Washington establishment will end.” America is a free country again. “We will fulfill our mission.”

Trump’s choice of words for 2024 has a bitter taste after failing to concede defeat in the 2020 election and launching a campaign against the decision that ended in an unprecedented outbreak of violence. Trump supporters violently stormed the House of Representatives in Washington, D.C. on January 6, 2021, resulting in the deaths of five people.