It had to happen, but never so soon. The final counting of the votes has not yet finished United States of America – It is already known that the Republicans have not wiped out as predicted – and Donald Trump was looking forward to itDefeated and enraged, he unleashed his arsenal to bomb the party’s rising star, who has stolen his spotlight and threatens to kick him out of the race for the White House.

In a lengthy statement, the former president posted a fierce criticism accusing of unfair to Ron DeSantis, the conservative governor of Florida re-elected Tuesday with more than 20% of the vote in his state and was one of the successful candidates in the elections in which most of the candidates were elected or supported by Trump (and not all were lucky).

DeSantis, 46, was immediately referred to as the future of the party and it has received praise from the press and also from the Republican establishment try to get away from extremism full of scandals the group has turned to since Trump took control. The exaltation of the new party figure upset the former presidentwho dedicated a strong document to him.

“Ron De Sanctimonioso”

Trump downplayed DeSantis as an “average Republican governor with excellent public relations “and accuses him of” playing “with a possible future presidential candidacy.

The former president, having fun looking for nicknames his enemies, he again referred to his rival as “Ron DeSanctimonious”, a play on words with which he accuses him of being hypocritically religious.

The tycoon assured that DeSantis owes his entire political career to his support he had given his campaign. “They ask him if he will run if Trump runs and he says, ‘I’m just focused on running for the governor, I’m not looking to the future,'” Trump said wryly. “Well, in terms of loyalty and class, that not quite the right answer“.

The statement it is the most energetic and public criticism from Trump to DeSantis until today. And he has done nothing but confirm that the former president sees the governor as its biggest rival for the appointment of the party in 2024.

DeSantis has not responded to Trump’s allegations – his advisers advise him not to address him directly – and has dedicated himself to tweeting about preparations for the arrival of Hurricane Nicole in Florida.

Always attentive to what the press says about him, Trump has also criticized the conservative media – which previously supported him – for now endorsing the figure of DeSantis. “NewsCorp, which is Fox, the Wall Street Journal and the no longer outstanding New York Post … they are all for Governor Ron DeSanctimonious,” Trump said.

The New York Post (owned by tycoon Rupert Murdoch) ran on the cover Thursday a caricature of the tycoon saying that Trump “sabotaged” the election by proposing the wrong Republican candidates.

Trump, “repulsive vote”

One article describes how “toxic”: “Trump is maybe the repellent vote deeper into modern US history, “he writes in the newspaper who until recently was Trump’s speaker.

The Wall Street Journal also targeted the tycoon. He noted that “Trump’s Republican candidates they failed at the polls in clearly winnable states. Perhaps these defeats are what the party is need to hear before 2024And, he notes: “Trump is the Republican Party’s biggest loser.”

Fox News, Trump’s favorite outlet for years, ran an editorial Thursday titled “Ron DeSantis is the new leader of the Republican Party.”

Trump had promised he would make a “big announcement” next week at his Mar-a-Lago home where he should run for president to seek a second term. He has not yet been canceled, although his advisors advise him to postpone him.

DeSantis plans

DeSantis, meanwhile, has not yet said whether he is considering running for president, despite speculation about his future political ambitions. They have been around for over a year.

Until Tuesday’s election, polls of a hypothetical Republican presidential primary showed the governor receives the second highest support behind Trump, but in front of party leaders like former vice president Mike Pence and former secretary of state Mike Pompeo.

Several outlets reported on Election Day that Trump warned him on a flight to South Florida it would be a mistake for DeSantis to run for president. After the votes were counted on Tuesday, showing DeSantis had won a 20-point victory, Trump noted that he received more votes in Florida during the 2020 election.

In his statement, Trump criticized DeSantis for choosing to “shut down” his state during the first months of the coronavirus pandemic and recalled that the then-candidate for governor went to Trump for support in 2017. “desperately” against Florida Agriculture Commissioner Adam Putnam.

“Ron had low approval ratings, bad polls and no money, but he said if I backed him he could win,” Trump said. “I didn’t know Adam, so I said, ‘Let’s try, Ron.'”

Trump compared the conservative media’s newfound love for DeSantis to the resistance he saw to his 2016 presidential candidacy. ” loved Jeb Bush low energy and a host of other people who quickly disappeared from sight eventually sided with me after I easily eliminated them, one by one, “Trump said.

“We are in exactly the same position now. They will continue to haunt usMAGA (for Make America great again), but in the end we will win. Put America First and MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! “

Washington, correspondent

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