During a new interview, 2024 Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said that he believes he and those he is running against should “rise above” personal attacks and focus on the issues.
DeSantis made his comments during an interview with Fox News host Howard Kurtz on “Media Buzz” after being asked about the insults others in the race have made towards each other.
“Let me get one more in here. Chris Christie, who was on this program a couple weeks ago, says he’s the only one that goes directly are at Trump, insult for insult, calling him a coward and so forth. And that the rest of you just dance around for fear of offending him or his supporters. Does he have a point?” Kurtz asked.
“I don’t do insults. So, that is true. I think just getting in this insult game turns voters off. It’s not something I want to do,” DeSantis responded.
“Substantively, we’ve been very frank at our differences with respect to the former president,” he continued. “I mean, for example, he promised to drain the swamp, it got worse. He did not drain the swamp. He promised to build — have the Mexico pay for a border wall, they did like 50 miles of wall. There’s massive expansive still there. He said he was going to eliminate the national debt. They added almost $8 trillion to the debt in four years. And, of course, in 2020, he turned the country over to Dr. Fauci, and there was lockdowns and the borrowing and printing really sent us on a bad course.
“I’ve been very, very frank at that, but I have no interest in attacking Donald Trump or any of these other candidates personally. I think we’ve got to rise above that, and let’s focus on the issues,” he added.
Ron DeSantis torches Donald Trump on policy:
"He promised to drain the swamp. It got worse. He did not drain the swamp. He promised to have the Mexico pay for a border wall. They did, like, 50 miles of wall. There's massive expanses still there. He said he was going to… pic.twitter.com/w3KviDc2D5
— Scott Morefield (@SKMorefield) July 16, 2023
