Former President Donald Trump said he considers Ron DeSantis as his strongest potential challenger for the Republican nomination and attacked the Florida governor during his first 2024 campaign stop in Iowa.
“I would say probably so, but you never know what happens. It could change,” Trump in response to a question about DeSantis from reporters aboard his plane en route to Iowa. “I think we’re not going to have much of a challenge.”
During a speech in Davenport, Trump said DeSantis opposed ethanol, which is important to farmers in Iowa and other Midwest states, and that when he was in Congress he voted to raise the minimum retirement age for Social Security to 70 years old.
