He needs to come, and he needs to defend his record,” said DeSantis.
“I don’t think a lame-duck president is going to cut it. The Florida governor, who was set to address the convention later Friday evening, said he’d be willing to debate Trump one-on-one. “I’m the one who turned Florida red,” Trump said.ĭeSantis, at an almost simultaneous rally at the Los Angeles Harbor Grain Terminal in Long Beach, took his own jabs at Trump. While he skipped the debate earlier this week in Simi Valley and has largely appeared more focused on the general election rather than the primary, Trump drew laughter and cheers with attacks on Florida Gov. “The world is being dumped into California, prisoners, terrorists, mental patients.”
“We will end the desecration of your once great state, California,” he said.
