Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis touched on a variety of issues during a CNN town hall in Iowa on Thursday night, criticizing former President Trump for failing to follow through on 2016 promises and hitting President Biden’s record.
DeSantis took aim at Trump and told the crowd that Republicans “crashed and burned” in 2022.
“Donald Trump’s handpicked candidates lost because the Democrats have a playbook that they can run,” DeSantis said. “You don’t want it to be a referendum on Trump and the past. You want it to be a referendum on Biden’s failures, on our positive vision for this country. I offer that.”
“You need somebody that can serve two terms. You’re going to go in there as a lame duck president, even if you could get elected,” DeSantis continued. “I don’t think that that’s how it works there. We need a change agent in Washington. We need somebody who’s going to go in there, actually unwind the bureaucracy, which Trump promised to do and didn’t do. We need a president that’s going to…
