DeSan­tis hits Trump below the belt. Will this new strat­e­gy work?

For months, Repub­li­can pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Gov. Ron DeSan­tis (R‑FL) has been more will­ing to attack for­mer Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump in their esca­lat­ing 2024 pri­ma­ry race. But this week marked a new lev­el of just how far the Flori­da gov­er­nor’s cam­paign is will­ing to go in his bat­tle against Trump and the rest of the GOP pres­i­den­tial field.
DeSan­tis has begun taunt­ing Trump over skip­ping the Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee-spon­sored pri­ma­ry debates in response to Trump’s recent provo­ca­tions. “If Don­ald Trump can sum­mon the balls to show up to the debate, I’ll wear a boot on my head,” DeSan­tis told News­max in an inter­view this week. His cam­paign is also sell­ing golf balls that say, “Ron DeSan­tis has a pair. He shows up.”
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