The comment appears to be the latest blip in the governor’s efforts to gain steam in the primary.
with The Florida Standard in which the GOP presidential candidate stated that a strong conservative movement needed to be based on principles.
“A movement can’t be about the personality of one individual,” DeSantis said. “If all we are is listless vessels that’s just supposed to follow, you know, whatever happens to come down the pike on Truth Social every morning, that’s not going to be a durable movement.”“To Hillary Clinton, Trump supporters are ‘deplorables.’ To Ron DeSantis, they are ‘listless vessels.’ The truth is, Trump supporters are patriots,” MAGA, Inc.
DeSantis, who has shaken up his campaign in an attempt to make up ground against Trump, has generally tried to ride a fine line between opposing the former president and not alienating his supporters, given their prominence in the Republican primary electorate. DeSantis also pushed back on the tendency of Trump and his allies to label conservatives who cross his line as RINOs, or Republicans in name only.
The comments point to Trump’s tendency of using Truth Social, a platform he owns, to attack his adversaries. Trump was banned from X, the platform previously known as Twitter, in the wake of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and he has since made Truth his new digital home.
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