Ron DeSantis (R) on Sunday acknowledged that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, days after the former president pleaded not guilty to criminal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn the result. “Of course he lost,” DeSantis told NBC News when pressed. Advertisement“I don’t think it was a good-run election,” DeSantis said. Because of Trump turned the government over to [Anthony] Fauci,” DeSantis told NBC News, in reference to the former chief medical adviser. AdvertisementAn average of national polls in the 2024 GOP primary compiled by FiveThirtyEight has DeSantis at 14.3%, trailing Trump by nearly 40 percentage points.

Source: Huffington Post August 07, 2023 17:34 UTC