Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis finally responded to former President Donald Trump’s criticism of his leadership and accusations of being “disloyal,” saying that his reelection in November says he’s popular with or without Trump.

“Ron would have not been governor if not for me,” Trump told reporters on his campaign plane. “When I hear that he might run, I consider that very disloyal.”

Asked about Trump’s comments, DeSantis chose not to respond directly to the former president’s accusation, instead boasting about his massive victory margin in his November reelection bid.

I roll out of bed, I have people attacking me from all angles. It’s been happening for many, many years,” DeSantis said. “And if you look at the good thing about it, though, is like if you take a crisis situation like COVID, you know, the good thing about it is when you’re an elected executive, you have to make all kinds of decisions. You got to steer that ship. And the good thing is, is that the people are able to render a judgment on that, whether they reelect you or not. And I’m happy to say, you know, in my case, not only did we win reelection, we won with the highest percentage of the vote that any Republican governor candidate has in the history of the state of Florida.

“We won by the largest raw vote margin over 1.5 million votes than any governor candidate has ever had in Florida history. And in fact, we almost doubled the previous record, which I think was like 780,000 vote margin. And so what I would just say is that verdict has been rendered by the people of the state of Florida.”

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