Ron DeSantis (left) and Donald Trump.
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The GOP did not produce the “red wave” they hoped to see for the 2022 midterms.
Many Republicans are pointing fingers at former President Donald Trump for the upsetting results.
Gov. Ron DeSantis, however, won reelection for Florida governor with a 20-point margin over Charlie Crist.
Former President Donald Trump unleashed on Gov. Ron DeSantis on social media after Tuesday’s lackluster midterm results for the Republican Party.
In a series of posts published on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump once again took credit for DeSantis’ political rise, saying that the Florida governor was “politically dead” in 2017.
“Ron came to me in desperate shape in 2017 — he was politically dead, losing in a landslide to a very good Agriculture Commissioner, Adam Putnam, who was loaded up with cash and great poll numbers,” he wrote.
Trump also stuck with his new nickname for the Florida governor: Ron DeSanctimonious.
Spokespersons for Trump and DeSantis did not immediately return a request for comment from Insider.
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