Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis, who is trailing President Trump in the polls by a significant margin, tried to gain some momentum for his campaign this week by highlighting Trump’s mistakes.
The DeSantis camp launched the “Trump accident tracker” on Tuesday in an attempt to highlight slip-ups and controversial statements from the 45th president.
BREAKING: Today we are unveiling the ‘Trump Accident Tracker’ — a way of recording how long the former president can go without a workplace accident on the campaign trail.
Why is this needed? We’ll explain.
🧵 THREAD. pic.twitter.com/IgCiz3chPL
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) October 24, 2023
From Newsmax:
The “DeSantis War Room” on X tweeted: “BREAKING: Today we are unveiling the ‘Trump Accident Tracker’ — a way of recording how long the former president can go without a workplace accident on the campaign trail. Why is this needed? We’ll explain.”
A thread on the X post states: “Every time Trump veers off the teleprompter, what happens? He becomes a major liability for his campaign. Yesterday is a great example. Trump tried to give a shootout to Viktor Orban — ‘the leader of Turkey,’ but Orban is the prime minister of Hungary.”
Every time Trump veers off the teleprompter, what happens? He becomes a major liability for his campaign. Yesterday is a great example.
Trump tried to give a shoutout to Viktor Orban — “the leader of Turkey"
Orban is the prime minister of Hungary.pic.twitter.com/EV4LmuRdbD
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) October 24, 2023
The next post goes: “Then Trump laid out his foolproof strategy to win in 2024: convince Republicans NOT to vote! You don’t have to vote, don’t worry about voting. We got plenty of votes.”
Then Trump laid out his foolproof strategy to win in 2024: convince Republicans NOT to vote!
"You don't have to vote, don't worry about voting. We got plenty of votes."pic.twitter.com/32VfJwqH3t
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) October 24, 2023
A further post says: “But it’s not just his behavior this week that’s concerning — this has been a problem all year. In July, Trump randomly attacked conservative Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.”
But it’s not just his behavior this week that’s concerning — this has been a problem all year.
In July, Trump randomly attacked conservative Iowa Governor Kim Reynolds.https://t.co/uO6RYjKte7
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) October 24, 2023
“Just days after 1,300 Israelis and 30 Americans were murdered, Trump slammed the Israeli leadership and said the terror group Hezbollah is “very smart.” Trump and his team released nearly a dozen statements cleaning this up.”
Just days after 1,300 Israelis and 30 Americans were murdered, Trump slammed the Israeli leadership and said the terror group Hezbollah is “very smart”
Trump and his team released nearly a dozen statements cleaning this up 😬pic.twitter.com/UzmvND6LDp
— DeSantis War Room 🐊 (@DeSantisWarRoom) October 24, 2023
Unfortunately for DeSantis and his camp, the accident tracker hasn’t gained any traction and has just over 17 thousand views since it was launched, while a 30-second clip of Trump calling his former lawyer a liar around the same time the tracker was launched has over 240,000 views.
DeSantis’ tracker coincides with the Trump campaign’s own “Kiss of Death” countdown targeting the DeSantis operation.
It was in reference to Jeff Roe, the chief strategist for DeSantis’ super PAC, telling supporters they had 60 days to turn the race around.
Even though the countdown concluded on Tuesday, the Trump campaign signaled it would continue to hammer DeSantis for the foreseeable future.
From The Hill:
“The only way we’ll stop is when DeSanctus returns to the Epcot Center, where all his issues began, and starts singing ‘It’s a Small World After All’ while taking the Drinking Around the World Tour, because that’s the closest he’ll ever become to being a world leader,” the Trump campaign said.
Not only did DeSantis’ campaign against Trump not work, he also lost one of his biggest allies to President Trump on Tuesday.
Florida Representative Randy Fine posted on Twitter that he has flipped his endorsement from DeSantis to Trump.
I got jumped by a Nazi in Florida. On video. Two weeks ago.
In Ron DeSantis’ Florida, that’s no big deal.
I’m a target; I am the only Republican Jew elected to the Florida Legislature, and you will find few people in the Legislature who have championed DeSantis more. I…
— Rep. Randy Fine (@VoteRandyFine) October 24, 2023
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