Trump also vowed to “drain the swamp once and for all” but used the slogan more to criticize President Joe Biden than the Florida governor. “You can bet he’ll be doing it later,” Trump said of cuts to the programs. He seized on DeSantis saying that, while Social Security and other programs need to be guaranteed for older adults, there may be work “in a bipartisan way to figure out how do you strengthen this” when it comes to younger people. In his own speech, Trump noted that polls show him with large primary leads. “The question is, is he the strongest to win the election?” McCarthy continued on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I don’t know that answer.” He clarified later in the day to the conservative news outlet Breitbart that Trump “is stronger today than he was in 2016.” Speaking about Trump on Tuesday, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, said, “Can he win that election? Yeah, he can win that election.” Many leading Republicans remain fiercely loyal to Trump, but there is some evidence that the attacks against the former president are resonating. “But that’s because we delivered results in Florida.” “We had a red wave in Florida,” DeSantis said, noting he easily won reelection last fall. At his town hall, the governor slammed the GOP’s “culture of losing” under Trump and mentioned the “massive red wave” that many in the GOP predicted but that never materialized nationally in last year’s midterm elections. “I want to break the swamp,” DeSantis said, pledging to take power out of Washington by instructing Cabinet agencies to halve the number of employees there.ĭeSantis has tried to gain ground on Trump by questioning the former president’s continued hold on the national Republican party. He added that such promises don’t go far enough because a subsequent president “can just refill it.” It’s worse today than it’s ever been,” DeSantis said.
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