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On Thursday night, not long after news of former President Donald Trump s forthcoming indictment and arrest broke, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) defended his likely future presidential rival, insisting the prosecution was un-American.

On Friday morning, a super PAC affiliated with Trump started airing at least $1.2 million worth of ads attacking DeSantis for supporting cuts to Medicare and Social Security in the past, insisting the governor doesnt share our values and is just not ready to be president.

President Trump is on the side of the American people when it comes to Social Security and Medicare. Ron DeSantis sides with DC establishment insiders. We are going to expose the key differences between President Trump and Ron DeSantis that illustrate just how unelectable pic.twitter.com/EQYoSgX6yH

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President Trump is on the side of the American people when it comes to Social Security and Medicare. Ron DeSantis sides with DC establishment insiders. We are going to expose the key differences between President Trump and Ron DeSantis that illustrate just how unelectable pic.twitter.com/EQYoSgX6yH
MAGA War Room (@MAGAIncWarRoom) March 30, 2023

The split screen illustrates the bind facing DeSantis as he prepares a likely presidential bid against Trump, who remains overwhelmingly popular with the Republican base even if some GOP voters may harbor worries about his electability, age or ability to serve only one further term in office.

Trump is an expert at portraying any attack on him as an attack on his supporters writ large, making any rhetorical assault DeSantis could mount risky. However, he has no qualms about attacking other Republicans and GOP voters have long seemed to relish the former presidents put-downs and occasionally crude insults.

Polling indicates DeSantis and Trump are in a two-man race for the GOP nomination to challenge President Joe Biden , with Trumps lead on DeSantis growing in recent weeks. So far, however, the battle between the two has been largely one-sided, a dynamic Trumps indictment seems likely to reinforce.

The weaponization of the legal system to advance a political agenda turns the rule of law on its head, DeSantis wrote on Twitter on Thursday night, without ever mentioning Trump by name. The Soros-backed Manhattan District Attorney has consistently bent the law to downgrade felonies and to excuse criminal misconduct. Yet, now he is stretching the law to target a political opponent.

George Soros, a billionaire financier and philanthropist, did support a group that backed Alvin Bragg, the Manhattan District Attorney bringing the charges against Trump, in his election in 2021. Republicans have regularly invoked Soros, who is the subject of multiple antisemitic conspiracy theories, in defending Trump.

The charges against Trump are expected to focus on a payment to Stormy Daniels, a former pornographic actress, to keep quiet about her affair with Trump ahead of the 2016 election, which Trump narrowly won over Democrat Hillary Clinton.

DeSantis went even further, making a likely unnecessary promise to protect Trump from extradition. Trump is expected to surrender to prosecutors in New York next week.

Florida will not assist in an extradition request given the questionable circumstances at issue with this Soros-backed Manhattan prosecutor and his political agenda, DeSantis said.