As well as Mr Trump, the Florida governor is up against Nikki Haley, Tim Scott, Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa Hutchinson in the battle to be the GOP candidate in the race for the White House next year
Mr Trump
, who has a big lead in opinion polls and an unbreakable grip on the party, according to some commentators. At his first event as a candidate, Mr DeSantis, 44, told around 500 people at an evangelical Christian church in Iowa on Tuesday the US is"going in the wrong direction. We can see it and we can feel it."DeSantis: Send Biden 'back to his basement'Promising to"fight back" against the former president, he rubbished Mr Trump's suggestion that New York's pandemic response was better than Florida's, calling it"detached from reality.
"That criticism is ridiculous. But it is an indication that the former president would double down on his lockdowns.
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