TAMPA, Fla. — Former President Donald Trump and Gov. Ron DeSantis seem destined to battle for the 2024 Republican presidential primary. Even though DeSantis has not yet announced his candidacy, there’s a new controversy between the two men seemingly every day. This timeline, which we plan to update frequently in the coming weeks and months, hopes to capture each twist and turn of their rivalry — which started out, as many great rivalries do, as a close partnership.
(Events are listed in reverse chronological order.)
March 30, 2023: A Manhattan grand jury voted to indict Trump in a case involving hush money Trump paid to a porn star during the 2016 campaign.
