Washington: Former US President Donald Trump has warned Ron DeSantis, the incumbent Florida governor who is projected to retain his seat fo...
Washington: Former US President Donald Trump has warned Ron DeSantis, the incumbent Florida governor who is projected to retain his seat following the midterm polls, against running for the White House in 2024, saying “he could hurt himself very badly”.
As the US went to
the polls on Tuesday, Trump in an interview with Fox News said: “I think he
would be making a mistake. I think the base would not like it… I don’t know if
he is running. I think if he runs, he could hurt himself very badly. I really
believe he could hurt himself badly.
“I don’t think it
would be good for the (Republican) party.”
Without providing
details, the former President also threatened to release “things about him
(DeSantis) that won’t be very flattering… I know more about him than anybody,
other than, perhaps, his wife”, the BBC reported.
Trump, however
denied that he had any dispute with the 44-year-old Governor and said: “There’s
not a tiff with me, and I’m way up in the polls.”
He also took credit
for DeSantis’s projected victory, saying that his endorsement is what got him
elected in 2019, reports the BBC.
“I thought that he
could have been more gracious. But that’s up to him,” Trump said.
Earlier on Tuesday,
Trump told reporters he had voted for DeSantis after emerging from a
polling station in Palm Beach, Florida.
Meanwhile, the
governor in his victory speech on Tuesday evening credited his victory to
turning the state into “a refuge of sanity when the world went mad”.
He also put his
victory down to turning the state into “a citadel of freedom” that ignored “the
woke agenda” of left-wingers, the BBC reported.
DeSantis called his
victory by the largest margin for any Florida governor in four decades “a win
for the ages”, adding that he is “not done fighting”.
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