DeSantis says Trump’s ‘juvenile’ and ‘fake’ insults could cause Republicans to LOSE in 2024

Ron DeSantis called Donald Trump’s insults “fake” and said the former president’s insults helped him on the campaign trail.

“These insults are so bogus,” DeSantis said Friday at WMUR’s “Conversation with the Candidate” event.

“These insults are juvenile. That’s not how a great country should behave, that’s not how the President of the United States should behave.’

He said he wouldn’t attack an opponent’s looks because he doesn’t want to teach his children to behave like that.

“We have a six-, five-, and three-year-old,” DeSantis said. “We teach our children to treat people the way you want to be treated.”

The governor said Republicans will lose if they throw “juvenile” insults around.

“As Republicans, we will lose because of that if we behave like this. There are millions of voters who disagree with what Biden is doing to this country,” DeSantis added.

“They don’t like the direction the country is going. But they’re not going to sign for a candidate who behaves like that. So, let’s be better. Let’s look higher, and let’s set a good standard for our children to follow.”

DeSantis said he had been a “big supporter” of Trump in the 2016 election, but called out his opponent for delivering on failed promises from the previous election, such as getting rid of the national debt, making Mexico pay for the border wall and draining the ‘swamp’. of Washington, DC

The candidate said earlier this week that slurs like calling him a “bad candidate” and accusing him of having “no personality” really help him in the polls.

“First of all, I mean I think a lot of this stuff if he hits me with it with juvenile insults, I think that helps me,” DeSantis said. “I don’t think voters like that. I think they look at it and realize that, you know what, that’s not effective. And so I don’t think it’s effective.’

DeSantis previously claimed he loved insults like “Ron DeSanctimonious.”

“I don’t know how to spell the sanctimonious. I don’t really know what it means, but I like it, it’s long, it has a lot of vowels,” DeSantis said in March.

Trump still has a significant lead over the governor of Florida.

The New York Times/Siena Poll released Monday shows Trump a whopping 37 percent ahead of runner-up DeSantis, as the ex-president continues to widen his lead over the rest of the crowded field of Republican candidates.

If the primary were held today, Trump would earn 54 percent of the Republican vote, while DeSantis would earn just 17 percent, which is 5 percent less than the number of voters (22 percent) who think the ex-president is a criminal.

No other candidate received double-digit support — and, in fact, none was able to break above 3 percent with former Vice President Mike Pence, former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley, and Senator Tim Scott of South Carolina, all tied for third place.