Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, a Republican, has alluded to his unquestioned victory in the state’s last gubernatorial election to imply that the public backed him in his handling of the pandemic, responding to the latest criticism from former U.S. President Donald Trump.
The former president accused DeSantis of having tried to «rewrite history» with regard to his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, since the state of Florida also decreed a lockdown «for a long period of time» during the early stages of the pandemic.
In response, DeSantis has asserted that when a person serves as an elected official he or she must make «all kinds of decisions.» «You have to steer that ship. And the good thing is that people can make their judgment on that, whether it’s re-electing you or not,» the Florida governor said.
In this sense, DeSantis has taken chest recalling that the people of Florida would somehow agree with his management, including decisions in the health field, since in the last elections he won «with the highest percentage of votes of any Republican candidate for governor in the history of the state of Florida».
«We won by the largest margin of votes, more than 1.5 million votes, that any candidate for governor has ever had in the history of Florida,» DeSantis stressed, according to the U.S. news portal The Hill.
DeSantis and Trump, once political allies, are emerging as the main rivals to represent the interests of the Republican Party for the 2024 presidential elections. Although the governor has not yet made his candidacy official, Trump’s attacks seem to show that, sooner or later, DeSantis will run as his rival.
The former president, for his part, did confirm in mid-November his candidacy as a Republican candidate for the White House, although since then – and after a mid-term election in which his allies did not achieve the expected results – he has barely expressed his presidential aspirations.
Source: (EUROPA PRESS)
