DeSantis Hits Back With Ads Attacking ‘Gun Grabber’ Trump

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A political group aligned with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched video attack ads against Donald Trump, striking back at the former president for scathing criticism of DeSantis and ratcheting up hostilities between the rivals for the Republican presidential nomination.

Never Back Down, a pro-DeSantis group, blasted Trump as a “gun grabber” saying he “cut and run like a coward” in statements Trump made in 2019 after a series of mass shootings in which he backed “red flag laws,” which allow authorities to take guns from people judged to be a threat to harm themselves or others.