While DeSantis hits Trump from the right, the ex-president is looking ahead to the general election
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NEW YORK In his first week on the campaign trail as a presidential candidate, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis repeatedly hit his chief rival, Donald Trump, from the right.
This is a different guy than 2015, 2016, DeSantis told a conservative radio host before slamming the bipartisan criminal justice reform legislation Trump championed as basically a jailbreak bill" that allowed dangerous people out of prison.
He also accused Trump of turning the reins over" to Dr. Anthony Fauci during the COVID-19 pandemic, said Trump had endorsed and tried to ram" an amnesty" bill through Congress and vowed that unlike the former president he would finish building the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
In Iowa on Saturday, he hit back at Trump for saying he didn't like the term woke because people have a hard time defining it. Woke is an existential threat to our society, DeSantis said. "To say its not a big deal, that just shows you dont understand what a lot of these issues are right now.
