When Ron DeSantis recently issued one of his most direct critiques of Donald Trump to date—saying the former president “denigrates military service by claiming it is ‘braver’ that he debated Hillary Clinton than what soldiers endure on the battlefield”—Trump’s team had a simple response: pointing to the scoreboard.
Fueled by persistently strong poll numbers in every primary state, the Trump campaign is increasingly shutting down criticism by reminding everyone that the former president is way ahead of his GOP rivals.
It’s a retort that no campaign seems to have an answer for—in a Republican Party increasingly run like a playground game of ‘King of the Hill.’
