Ron DeSantis Preemptively Rejects VP Offer From Trump, Says Trump Accomplished Nothing as President

When Ron DeSantis dropped out of the GOP main final month, he declared, “It’s clear to me {that a} majority of Republican main voters need to give Donald Trump one other probability,” and endorsed the ex-president. However ask DeSantis his ideas concerning the former man in personal, and apparently he doesn’t have the perfect issues to say!

Throughout a name with supporters on Wednesday, the Florida governor said he had little interest in being Trump’s VP, claimed the forty fifth POTUS achieved nothing of significance as president, and went after the conservative media for refusing to actually cowl the man, i.e., run essential tales about him. “Individuals had been mentioning me,” DeSantis mentioned of probably serving as Trump’s operating mate. “I’m not doing that.” (On Tuesday, Trump confirmed to Fox Information that DeSantis was considered one of a number of folks he was contemplating for the job.) “I’ve heard that they’re wanting extra in identification politics,” DeSantis informed his supporters. “I believe that’s a mistake. I believe it is best to simply give attention to who the perfect individual for the job could be.”

Discussing his failure to beat out the ex-president for the nomination, the governor blamed Trump’s authorized issues, saying: “The dynamics of the race had been, he saved getting indicted, and he drew extra assist out of sympathy for that.” He warned that these authorized issues could be “baggage” for Trump within the basic election, however nonetheless claimed that Biden was “going to be the present that retains on giving.” DeSantis additionally criticized the right-wing media for its fawning protection of his former opponent, saying, “Their enterprise mannequin simply doesn’t work if they provide any criticism of Trump.” He added that Trump “might shoot somebody on Fifth Avenue, and the conservative media wouldn’t even report on it.” (To be honest, if we’re making predictions, it’d in all probability report on it however instantly declare the capturing was justified as a result of the sufferer was an undocumented immigrant.)

As for DeSantis’s ideas on a second Trump administration? If it’s something like the primary, his expectations are in all probability low. Per The New York Times:

At one level, Mr. DeSantis lacerated Mr. Trump’s file as president, saying he had did not ship on many marketing campaign guarantees. “I used to be in Congress the primary two years when Trump was president,” Mr. DeSantis mentioned. “I imply, we didn’t actually do what we mentioned we’d do. You didn’t see any main immigration, border, or any sort of laws. You didn’t see something with repealing and changing Obamacare. You didn’t see something about reining within the paperwork. I imply, it was fairly, fairly mundane stuff.”

Whereas DeSantis left the door open for a 2028 run, saying, “I have not dominated something out,” Group Trump doesn’t seem to imagine his legacy will embrace a stint within the White Home. After a recording of the governor’s name with supporters leaked, Chris LaCivita, a high Trump adviser, known as him a “unhappy little man” who would solely be remembered for “rooster fingers and pudding cups.”