On the surface, Donald Trump and Gavin Newsom would seem to be political foes, but recently they appear to share the same goal: taking down Ron DeSantis.
"Ron DeSantis is a young man who is not doing well against me in the polls, to put it mildly," Trump wrote this week on Truth Social."I believe that if he decides to run for president, which will only hurt and somewhat divide the Republican Party, he will lose the cherished and massive MAGA vote, and never be able to successfully run for office again."
Last month, Trump also lambasted DeSantis as an"average" and"big lockdown" governor. Trump noted that as president he gave governors the"freedom" to respond to COVID as they saw fit, and he argued that other Republican governors handled the pandemic more effectively than DeSantis did.of 2020. Still, the former president argued that Florida under DeSantis fared worse than New York with a high COVID death rate and has performed poorly in crime and education rankings.
Newsom more broadly slammed DeSantis' broader leadership in an MSNBC interview that aired Sunday, and argued he'd be defeated easily in the 2024 presidential race. Two days later, Trump told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview that he hadn't"hit" Newsom because the"He was always very nice to me, said the greatest things," Trump said of Newsom."He would say things like, 'He's doing a great job.'""About me, that's why I could never hit him, because he was so nice to me, just laying in wait right?" Trump said."But he was very nice to me, relatively speaking.
During the height of COVID in 2020, Newsom called his relationship with then-President Trump"very effective."
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