As well as Mr Trump, the Florida Governor is up against Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa Hutchinson in the battle to be the GOP candidate in the race for the White House next year.
Please use Chrome browser for a more accessible video playerRon Desantis has begun his bid to become the Republican candidate for US president by claiming he is America's saviour and calling some of frontrunner Donald Trump's criticisms"ridiculous".
The Florida Governor wants to be his party's candidate to challenge Joe Biden in next year's presidential election. His key rival for the GOP nomination is former president Mr Trump, who has a big lead in opinion polls and an unbreakable grip on the party, according to some commentators.Five things you need to know about Florida governor, Ron Desantis
At his first event as a candidate, Mr Desantis, 44, told around 500 people at an evangelical Christian church in Iowa on Tuesday the US is"going in the wrong direction. We can see it and we can feel it."Promising to"fight back" against the former president, he rubbished Mr Trump's suggestion that New York's pandemic response was better than Florida's, calling it"detached from reality.
"That criticism is ridiculous. But it is an indication that the former president would double down on his lockdowns.
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