{"id":577461,"date":"2023-06-06T03:00:41","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T00:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/trump-desantis-in-open-warfare-as-2024-race-heats-up\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T03:00:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T00:00:41","slug":"trump-desantis-in-open-warfare-as-2024-race-heats-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/trump-desantis-in-open-warfare-as-2024-race-heats-up\/","title":{"rendered":"#Trump, DeSantis in open warfare as 2024 race heats up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/06\/desantis_ron_trump_donald_04212023_AP_.jpg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The long-simmering feud between former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is reaching new heights as the nascent Republican presidential primary breaks into open warfare between its top contenders.<\/p>\n<p>The tensions between the two men were on prominent display in recent days as they took jabs at each other at dueling campaign events more than 1,000 miles apart. After DeSantis swiped at Trump by claiming that it would take eight years in the White House to \u201cget this job done,\u201d the former president responded bluntly: \u201cWho the hell wants to wait eight years?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cWhen he says eight years, every time I hear it I wince because I say, if it takes eight years to turn this around, then you don\u2019t want him. You don\u2019t want him as your president,\u201d Trump said at a stop in Urbandale, Iowa.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about Trump\u2019s remarks later in the day, DeSantis didn\u2019t hold back.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy didn\u2019t he do it his first four years?\u201d he quipped.<\/p>\n<p>The exchange was just a taste of how bitter the rivalry between the one-time political allies has become in the opening days of DeSantis\u2019s presidential campaign.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the Florida governor is still running well behind Trump in most public polling, the former president has made clear for months that he\u2019s ready for a fight, going on the attack against DeSantis even before he formally entered the race.<\/p>\n<p>DeSantis, meanwhile, made clear last week that he won\u2019t take the incoming fire sitting down, telling reporters after a campaign kickoff event that if he comes under attack, he\u2019s \u201cgoing to counterpunch.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cI am gonna fight back on it,\u201d DeSantis said. \u201cI am going to focus my fire on Biden, and I think he should do the same. He gives Biden a free pass.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So far, none of the GOP presidential contenders have taken any heat from Trump or DeSantis, who is still polling well ahead of the rest of the field. Speaking on a Des Moines-area radio show, Trump made clear why he is directing his fire squarely at DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a war of a certain kind, and what you do is, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ly speaking \u2014 the person that\u2019s in second place, you go after that person as opposed to the person in eighth or ninth place,\u201d Trump told radio host Simon Conway.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>The conflict between Trump and DeSantis has gone beyond off-handed jabs from the candidates. As Trump campaigned in Urbandale last week, Never Back Down, a pro-DeSantis super PAC, parked a \u201cTeam DeSantis\u201d bus outside of the former president\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, allies and staffers for the two candidates have engaged in increasingly bitter back-and-forths online.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In one exchange, Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung posted a photo of the Never Back Down bus, claiming that it \u201cbroke down\u201d on the side of the road. That drew a response from DeSantis\u2019s rapid response director, who posted a photo of Cheung standing outside of the bus \u201cwishing he could hitch a ride.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Republicans said that the feuding between Trump and DeSantis was inevitable; the former president has a history of running scorched-earth campaigns, while DeSantis has pinned his political ambitions on his reputation for standing up to any and all criticism.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What caught some in the party off guard, however, is just how fast the fight escalated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously Trump was never going to cut DeSantis any slack, but I kind of expected him to wait a while to start hitting back at him,\u201d said one Republican strategist, who\u2019s supporting DeSantis\u2019s presidential bid. \u201cIt was going to h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>en sooner or later, but I think the DeSantis folks came to the conclusion that the longer he waited, the harder it would be.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Others welcomed the battle, arguing that it was time for the GOP and its various factions to begin hashing out their differences, especially after a relatively lackluster midterm election cycle that saw many Republicans lose their races in an otherwise favorable political environment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI will say this: I don\u2019t think it\u2019s ever bad for a political party to have a good, robust primary fight,\u201d said Dallas Woodhouse, a longtime Republican operative who currently heads up the conservative South Carolina Policy Council. \u201cI think Republicans need that right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But the feud could also carry consequences for the two candidates \u2014 and the GOP\u2019s efforts to reclaim the White House in 2024 \u00ad\u2014 raising the risk of either man emerging from the primary bruised and battered.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cObviously, getting into the ring with Trump was a risk to begin with,\u201d said Ford O\u2019Connell, a Republican strategist. \u201cI think that if this does get too bloody, you may wind up ruining the chances of both.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Media<\/a> Inc. 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