
Even in defeat, Ron DeSantis is following in Donald Trump's footsteps.
Trump dealt DeSantis a double-digit drubbing in Monday’s Iowa caucuses, defeating him in a state the Florida governor's marketing campaign had desperately sought to win. And DeSantis, who’s portrayed himself as a Trump clone ever since his gubernatorial marketing campaign in 2018, stayed proper on script Monday with false claims that election interference performed a job in his loss.
In particular, DeSantis’ marketing campaign and his allies whined on social media that information shops’ fast projections that Trump will be the winner successfully amounted to voter suppression as a result of, they claimed, electorate who had been nonetheless caucusing heard the projections and determined to not forged their ballots for the Florida governor.
Scott Wagner, chairman of the pro-DeSantis Tremendous PAC By no means Again Down, claimed that he knew of more than one potential caucusgoers who declined to take part after listening to that the media had projected Trump because the winner.