Ron DeSantis mocks Trump for struggling to use a teleprompter: Florida governor compares rival to Biden in stinging attack saying he is in cognitive decline

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis delivered his strongest language yet about rival Donald Trump, calling the former president someone who has “lost control of his fastball.”

DaSantis, 45, seized the attack from Trump’s wheelhouse. Trump, 77, regularly ridicules 80-year-old Joe Biden as someone who has lost a step, ridiculing him for taking the “baby stairs” on Air Force One and pointing out the times the president has messed up his stage directions .

He also referred directly to one of the strange takeaways from Trump’s speech in Derry, New Hampshire on Monday, where he told a crowd that it was more important to participate in poll-watching activities than to vote.

“And what Donald Trump is doing now, he’s married to the teleprompter. He can’t get rid of that teleprompter, every time he does he says things like ‘Don’t vote,'” DaSantis said while campaigning in New Hampshire.

Republican presidential candidate Florida Governor Ron DeSantis attacked Donald Trump in New Hampshire, saying he ‘couldn’t get rid of that teleprompter’

“He tells people not to vote, as if we have all the votes we need. Real? Wait a minute, you lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in 2016. You don’t have all the votes you need.

Trump the crowd told, ‘We have to be careful. You gotta get out of there. You have to keep an eye on those voters. You don’t have to vote, you don’t have to worry about voting. The mood. We have enough votes.

DeSantis, who has trailed Trump by more than 40 points lately USA Today / Suffolk poll, then said his competitor was “different” from the 2016 election, when he defeated Clinton in the electoral college after a furious contest.

“And so I think it’s just been shown that this is a different Donald Trump than the one from 2015 and 2016. He’s lost his fastball, lost his sense of entitlement – ​​all these things. He doesn’t think he has to go ahead and earn it like other candidates,” DeSantis said, as his wife, Casey DeSantis, stood nearby.

DeSantis, who avoided direct hits on Trump early in his campaign, said Tuesday that Trump had “lost the spice of his fastball.”

Food for thought: DeSantis said Robert F. Kennedy Jr. would be a ‘ship for anti-lockdown and anti-Fauci voters if Trump is the nominee’

DeSantis brought up Hillary Clinton who won the popular vote in 2016. Trump defeated her in the electoral college

Trump was back in a Manhattan courthouse on Tuesday after campaigning in New Hampshire on Monday

Trump has said he plans to skip the third presidential debate, this one in Florida, not far from his Mar-a-Lago residence.

“And that’s just not going to fly in Iowa and New Hampshire. And so, you know, how this happened along the way with Iowa and New Hampshire, I don’t know. But I can tell you that now that I’m here, I’m happy that it works this way because I think you have to earn it. I think voters expect that. That’s the first thing he said, Mediaite reported.

He appeared alongside New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, who has called on Republicans to back a candidate alongside Trump.

“Second is, I think Chris (Sununu) has said and I have said, we need a candidate who can win the general election. There are too many people who are just not going to vote for Trump right now, in my opinion and I think Chris’s too.’

He then said there was “another wrinkle” when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. entered the race — potentially drawing more votes from Trump than from Biden after he swept the Democratic party and launched an independent run.

‘RFK Jr. will be a platform for anti-lockdown and anti-Fauci voters if Trump is the nominee,” he said.

“If I’m the nominee, they’re all going to root for me because I ran against Fauci,” he claimed. “I’m going to clean up CDC and stuff. It’s a big part of my platform. But with Trump, he created Fauci, he elevated Fauci, he never fired him. He said he did everything right during COVID, claims he saved 100 million lives, you know, with the mRNA vaccine and all that stuff.”

“So I think he will hurt Trump much more than any other candidate. And that makes it even harder, uphill,” he said.

At his own events, Trump mocked the size of DeSantis’ audience, claimed he had saved his campaign for governor and said the DeSantis campaign was collapsing like a dead bird.