Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Democrats of donating to Republican White House hopefuls Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis to prevent him from becoming the 2024 Republican presidential nominee.
Trump, 77, made the claim during an event in Davenport, Iowa, after Fox News host Sean Hannity asked him about his reaction to President Biden’s comment that he would likely have retired after just one term. if his 2020 opponent hadn’t been. stand for election next year.
“Well, I think someone gave him a talking point that they thought would sound good,” the GOP presidential front-runner said of the 81-year-old incumbent’s comment, before suggesting that alleged donations going to his rivals in the primaries indicate they are Democrats: and Biden, they are being dishonest about who they want to face in the general election.
“You know, I just found out that Democrats are funding Nikki Haley’s campaign,” Trump said.
“I hear that Democrats are contributing to the campaign of Ron DeSanctus, or Ron DeSanctimonious, of Ron DeSanctus,” he added, using the two derisive nicknames he frequently uses when speaking or posting about the Florida governor.
Trump says Democrats are donating money to Nikki Haley and Ron DeSantis in hopes of preventing him from being the Republican presidential candidate in 2024. AP
“That’s the only thing they’re good at: cheating in elections and big talking points,” Trump said of Democrats. “They say, ‘We want to run against Trump.’ Do you want to run? Well, we did very well in 2016. And we did much better in 2020. The person they don’t want to compete against is us.”
Trump may have been referring to a New York Times report that LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman contributed $250,000 to the SFA Fund, a pro-Nikki Haley super PAC that has spent more than $33 million of dollars supporting the Republican Party of the former governor of South Carolina. primary offer.
Hoffman also poured nearly $700,000 into the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee authorized by the Biden campaign, in April, federal election records show.
The former president’s response could possibly be referring to a report that LinkedIn co-founder and Democratic mega-donor Reid Hoffman contributed $250,000 to a pro-Nikki Haley super PAC. AP
The tech billionaire admitted to the Wall Street Journal earlier this year that he visited convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s private island in the Caribbean in 2014 to raise money for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a decision he called a “mistake” and a “personal error of judgment.”
Haley’s campaign did not respond to the Post’s request for comment.
It is unclear which Democrats Trump was referring to as “contributors” to DeSantis’ White House bid. A spokesperson for DeSantis’ campaign suggested that Trump may have confused the Florida governor with Haley.
Ron DeSantis, whom Trump calls “DeSanctus,” could have been thrown under the bus by the former president in confusion with the Florida governor with Haley. fake images
Trump held the town hall event the night before the Republican Party’s fourth primary debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, which the former president will not attend.
Trump has a nearly 29-point lead over DeSantis and a 32-point lead over Haley in the Hawkeye State with just over a month left until the 2024 Iowa Republican presidential caucuses, the first GOP presidential nominating contest of the cycle of 2024.
“I feel great,” Trump told Hannity about the state of the race.
Asked by the Fox News host to reassure voters that, if elected, he would “never abuse power in retaliation against anyone,” Trump responded: “Except on the first day.”
“Apart from day one. We are closing the border. And we’re drilling, drilling, drilling. After that I am no longer a dictator,” she clarified.
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