Forget the campaign trail: the real Trump-DeSantis fight is spilling out on Twitter. Conservative influencers who support the respective campaigns are duking it out on Elon Musk’s app — and it’s getting personal.

The Twitter beef ostensibly started with Trump supporters growing antsy over the prospect of a “disloyal” DeSantis running against the president who swung his governor’s race, then devolved into policy fights over DeSantis and Trump’s handling of the Covid-19 pandemic and Trump’s ability to win the general. The arguments have since spiraled into nasty scuttlebutt. …

Avid Trump supporter Laura Loomer, the online activist known for stunts such as handcuffing herself to Twitter headquarters, dumping a batch of illegal immigrants on Nancy Pelosi’s lawn and getting banned from Uber Eats, used a photoshopped picture of Pushaw’s knees to accuse the campaign official of engaging in some X-rated sexual acts.

In another recent post, Loomer threw up photos of Pushaw smoking hookah and having cocktails — is that a vodka cran? — in what appears to be a college or study-abroad setting. Cockburn isn’t sure if those were supposed to make Pushaw look bad, but supposes it had the opposite effect.

[Let’s not forget that only a surpassingly small percentage of voters live the Very Online World, and probably an even smaller percentage among Republican primary voters. It’s all very silly and nonsensical, but it is reminiscent of 215 when this was a novelty. Now it just feels tiresome, except maybe for the vodka cran. — Ed]