Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail attacking Ron DeSantis, mocking his rival’s reminders that he can serve two terms to Trump’s one. As the candidates hit key states, their pitches are increasingly about distinguishing themselves from one another.
with Simon Conway released Thursday: “This is a war of a certain kind, and what you do is, generally speaking, the person that’s in second place, you go after that person as opposed to the person in eighth or ninth place.”
“When he says eight years, every time I hear it I wince, because I say if it takes eight years to turn this around, then you don’t want him, you don’t want him as your president,” Trump said. “It’ll take me six months to have it totally the way it was, we’ll have it fast.”Trump was responding to a refrain DeSantis has used in Iowa and New Hampshire this week. “It really requires a two-term presidency to be able to do as much as you need to do,” DeSantis said in Pella, Iowa, on Wednesday.
At the Machine Shed event, Trump criticized using the word “woke,” saying he doesn’t like the term because “half the people can’t define it, they don’t know what it is.” DeSantis has often used “woke” as a foil meant to evoke ideas associated with the left, bragging that his home state is where “woke goes to die.”Trump also alluded to the Florida governor not taking town-hall-style questions from voters at his recent events.
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