Mabinty Quarshie is the national politics correspondent for the Washington Examiner. Before joining the Washington Examiner, Mabinty was a national political reporter and assistant elections editor at USA Today. She holds a bachelor’s from George Mason University and a master’s in journalism from Georgetown University.
For months, Republican presidential candidate Gov. Ron DeSantis has been more willing to attack former President Donald Trump in their escalating 2024 primary race. But this week marked a new level of just how far the Florida governor's campaign is willing to go in his battle against Trump and the rest of the GOP presidential field.
The DeSantis campaign claims the governor is the only Republican candidate who can defeat President Joe Biden, often pointing to Trump's baggage as a distraction from the 2024 race. DeSantis has made winning the Iowa caucuses the crux of his campaign and pledged to visit all 99 counties in the state, while Trump has noticeably increased the number of campaign stops in the Hawkeye State.
Similarly, Christopher Nicholas, a veteran Republican political consultant, claimed:"Months ago, just a few of the other GOP candidates dared to publicly attack the former president. Now, it's the rare one who doesn't." DeSantis is feeling the pressure to improve his campaign with less than 73 days until the Iowa caucuses, according to another Republican strategist."Two strategic objectives are probably driving the DeSantis decision to step up attacks against President Donald Trump. First, the election calendar is shortening. The time for movement is now," said Matt Dole, a Republican political consultant based in Ohio."And the way to get movement is to broadcast contrast messaging.
"Remember, part of why they support DeSantis is because they don’t support Trump and they want to see a candidate who's their mouthpiece for that," Dole said."Furthermore, as other Republicans leave the race, DeSantis is hoping that they will come into his camp so that he can solidify himself as the natural alternative — the contrast messaging, in theory, reminds those Republicans why they’re seeking an alternative in the first place.
Cheung, Trump's spokesman, mocked the DeSantis campaign for selling the golf balls on social media, prompting pushback."Ron DeSantis is so broke he needs to sell his balls to strangers in order make rent and keep the lights on," Cheung said.
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