Former President Donald Trump recently posted the following on Truth Social:
“Kayleigh “Milktoast”McEnany just gave out the wrong poll numbers on FoxNews. I am 34 points up on DeSanctimonious, not 25 up. While 25 is great, it’s not 34. She knew the number was corrected upwards by the group that did the poll. The RINOS & Globalists can have her. FoxNews should only use REAL Stars!!!”
Meanwhile, it has been noted that Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is betting that he can pry conservative voters away from Donald Trump by homing in on the former president’s record on crime.
Some of Trump’s moves to moderate ahead of the 2020 election have now made him vulnerable to attacks from the right.
Last Friday, DeSantis told right-wing host Ben Shapiro that Trump had signed “basically a jailbreak bill” that “has allowed dangerous people out of prison who have now re-offended, and really, really hurt a number of people.”
DeSantis pledged that as president he would try to repeal the First Step Act of 2018, a bipartisan bill Trump signed that reduced some federal sentences considered excessive and sought to improve federal prisons.
Thousands of prisoners were made eligible for early release under the law but some of those released early have been arrested again for crimes, including murder.
Asked whether Trump still supports the bill or if there are any parts he would change, the Trump campaign did not respond.
Instead, Trump’s team issued a statement portraying DeSantis as a flip-flopper because, as a member of Congress, he voted for an earlier version of the bill that had significant differences from the final legislation.
“He sounds just like John Kerry. What a phony,” Trump spokesman Steven Cheung told Axios.
