Donald Trump was branded the Republican party’s “biggest loser” following the US midterms on Tuesday, while his party rival Ron DeSantis swept to victory in a landslide in Florida, giving him a strong platform to challenge the former president in 2024.
If Trump was the Republican loser of the US midterms – despite not being on the ballot paper – it was DeSantis who emerged the party’s big winner. Before Tuesday’s election night, when the beaming Republican governor took to the stage in Tampa with his wife Casey and children to claim victory over “woke ideology”, Trump had looked like the probable 2024 presidential Republican candidate.
