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At a Sunday afternoon midterm election rally near Miami, Donald Trump avoided taking a jab at Florida’s other most popular Republican, Gov. Ron DeSantis. “The people of Florida are going to reelect the wonderful, great friend of mine Marco Rubio to the U.S. Senate,” the former president told more than 2,000 supporters. “And you’re going to reelect Ron DeSantis as your governor.”
It wasn’t an effusive endorsement, but a day earlier Trump fired a warning shot at his budding rival for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. While stumping for Mehmet Oz, the GOP U.S. Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, Trump called DeSantis “Ron DeSanctimonious.” The zinger came while Trump bragged about one-month-old poll numbers showing him with a gargantuan lead among Republican voters over Florida’s governor and former Vice-President Mike Pence.
The insult was totally unnecessary, Luis Solarana told The Daily Beast. A Brooklyn native who moved to Miami in 1984, Solarana was among dozens of other MAGA diehards at the Miami-Dade County Fairgrounds who were pumped about a potential Republican rout in the Sunshine State on election day this Tuesday.