A political group aligned with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis launched video attack ads against Donald Trump, striking back at the former president for scathing criticism of DeSantis and ratcheting up hostilities between the rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.
Never Back Down, a pro-DeSantis group, blasted Trump as a “gun grabber,” saying he “cut and run like a coward” in statements Trump made in 2019 after a series of mass shootings in which he backed “red flag laws,” which allow authorities to take guns from people judged to be a threat to harm themselves or others.
Another ad that the group launched Sunday accused Trump of “stealing pages from the Biden-Pelosi Playbook” in his repeated criticism of DeSantis for working on behalf of “massive cuts” to Social Security and Medicare. As a congressman, DeSantis voted for nonbinding legislation to raise the qualifying age for both programs to 70.
