The ex-president calls Florida's governor 'desperate' in the first draw of a metaphorical pistol.
Rivalry between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis has spilt open after the Republican ex-president came swinging out against his one-time acolyte on Thursday night.
"Ron had low approval, bad polls, and no money, but he said that if I would Endorse [sic] him, he could win," Mr Trump said. "I also fixed his campaign, which had completely fallen apart." However, a disappointing midterms in which Republicans have failed to garner the large majority in the House of Representatives that was expected - and are yet unable to say whether they have seized a majority in the Senate - has left many in the party laying the blame at Mr Trump's feet.
"Republicans have followed Donald Trump off the side of a cliff," one former Trump adviser, David Urban, told the New York Times.
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