Presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) said former President Donald Trump added trillions to the national debt and supported amnesty for illegal immigrants in an unusually direct criticism of his biggest rival in the 2024 Republican primary.
hampshire, south carolina on the schedule next week. a new fox news poll showing desantis has a big gap to close on former president trump. voters preferring president trump by 33 point margin. senior national correspondent rich edson is live with the latest. rich, desantis is already contrasting his record against the former president, but the former president is making fun of him at the same time. that s right. he is looking at the poll. that s the dynamic playing out. florida governor ron desantis accuses president trump of adding trillions to the national debt while in office and failing to finish the border wall. desantis is criticizing trump s covid response, told the new hampshire radio show that trump is only attacking him because he understands he s got the best shot at beating the former president. trump spent months ripping desantis. other republican candidates are joining in like former u.n. ambassador nikki haley whose campaign called desantis trump without the
charm. desantis is pitching voters on his conservative and controversial record governing florida. you got to be able to win and then when you get in office, you ve got to be able to deliver results. i think we ve been able to do both of those as good or better than anybody in the country. trump and his campaign spent the night and today criticizing desantis s rollout on twitter last night, saying 25 minutes of technical problems is another example why the florida governor is not ready for the presidency. this morning, republican challenger welcomed desantis to the race. wasn t the smoothest rollout. i can empathize with technical snafus a candidate may go through. put that to one side. that s not the important part. the important part is we have to elevate the debate about what we stand for and why we stand for it. haley, scott, manike
number. they compared him to the trump number at the same time and it s not even close. people felt they were being more helped than hurt. i think if it s a with it person race. trump and biden trump wins that it third party candidate remains to be seen whether that person siphons votes from the left or the right and does a perot to donald trump the way perot did it to bush 41. bret: do you think that s more likely today than it was. likely some wealthy people stroke a checkner mits miss the money and decide hot next president is. bret. they won t get a single electoral vote but decide hot next president is i think for biden smart democrats like doug maybe, people on capitol hill why aren t they speaking up about what we all see in the data? this guy s presidency and the threat of donald trump being president again makes them all so crazy that they don t even say what they see which is a party leader track dragging them down. also, last point. the reason that the democrats did bett