Supporters of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis are striking back against former President Donald Trump after he issued a statement claiming that Florida has become a horrible place to live under the governor’s watch. A super PAC created to support DeSantis’ presidential bid, even though he has not yet announced his intention to run, issued a fierce clapback against the former president, who has allowed DeSantis to live rent-free in his head ever since the 2022 midterm elections.
The Never Back Down super PAC, which supports Gov. DeSantis’ potential 2024 White House bid, has announced that it will provide financial assistance to former President Donald Trump to move to California. This comes just one day after Trump criticized Florida, calling it the “worst state.”
Never Back Down CEO Chris Jankowski stated, “Donald Trump has disparaged the state of Florida, and we will help him leave by offering financial support for him to move to his beloved California.” Jankowski further added that with the influx of people moving to Florida due to Gov. DeSantis’ success, Trump’s departure would go unnoticed.
“Donald Trump has so deeply disparaged the state of Florida by calling it the ‘worst state,’ we at Never Back Down will help him leave by offering financial assistance to help him move to his beloved California, so he can be close to his good buddy Gavin Newsom, whom he loves so intensely and gets along with so well,” Jankowski wrote in a statement.
“The good news is that since so many people are moving to the state of Florida, thanks to the incredible success of Governor Ron DeSantis, no one will notice when Trump leaves,” he continued. “The state of Florida will be better off when Trump takes his Soros-fueled, dumpster fire of a campaign to San Francisco, where it will fit right in.”
The super PAC recently released its first national ad titled “Fight Democrats, not Republicans,” which blasted Trump for attacking DeSantis, according to Fox News. Trump’s camp responded, accusing DeSantis of colluding with “globalist handlers” and stating that Trump will always protect Americans’ benefits.
President Trump on Friday sent an email portraying Florida as some kind of dystopian nightmare with a slew of problems supposedly caused by Gov. DeSantis. In the email was a statement from Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung, who said DeSantis has “left a wake of destruction all across Florida” by spending “more time playing public relations games instead of actually doing the hard-work needed to improve the lives of the people he represents.”
As I said earlier, this is quite a desperate move coming from Team Trump. Trying to gaslight the nation into believing that the Sunshine State has turned into a hellhole under DeSantis’ leadership is about as goofy as telling people that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) is a member of Mensa. Not only will nobody buy this fallacy, it opened the former president up to clapbacks like the one that came from Never Back Down and other high-profile conservatives who back the governor.
If Team Trump thinks this type of attack will work, perhaps they are not the ones who should be advising the former president.
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