- Former President Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis have maintained an uneasy truce over the past two years, with Trump sometimes suggesting he feels betrayed by DeSantis, whom he endorsed in 2018.
- In the election’s final days, the differences between the two men seems be coming to the forefront.
- Trump is hosting a rally with Sen. Marco Rubio in Miami next weekend; Desantis won’t be attending. Instead, DeSantis is hosting his own rally in Tampa Nov. 6.
- Spiro Kiousis, the executive associate dean at the University of Florida College of Journalism and Communications, views the dueling rallies as a sign they are trying to “position themselves relative to one another.”
“They have both been sort of mutually keeping an eye on each other, but no one’s really made any sort of move yet,” Kiousis told the Washington Examiner.
