CLIVE, Iowa—Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said May 30 in the first formal stump speech of his 2024 presidential campaign in Iowa that former President Donald Trump has “moved left” on federal spending, abortion, and crime, gives only lip service to the “America First” policies that he failed to implement when in office, and cannot win a general election.
“There are a lot of voters that just aren’t going to ever vote for him,” DeSantis said. “We just have to accept that.”
DeSantis did not directly criticize the former president during his hour-long address before about 750 people, including 200 who watched on monitors in the lobby of Eternity Church, a suburban Pentecostal congregation northwest of Des Moines….