Former President Donald Trump’s sharpest nickname for Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) is neither “DeSanctimonious” nor “Meatball Ron.” Trump is running against someone named “Ryan DeSantis.”
That would be former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), whom he is trying to make DeSantis’s running mate. Trump would also like to remind you who actually did make Ryan his running mate: Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), the defeated 2012 GOP presidential nominee and Never Trumper.
Trump is blasting DeSantis as a member of the “Paul Ryan establishment” and highlighting his time in Congress supporting Ryan budgets that contained various entitlement reforms.
“You remember … Democrats used that ‘wheelchair over the cliff’ commercial?” Trump asked an audience in Iowa during his first trip of the cycle to the early state. “Very effective. That was about [Ryan].”
Trump sees Paul Ryan as DeSantis' kryptonite
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