The super PAC supporting Donald J. Trump will begin airing an attack against Ron DeSantis in Iowa, a shift in strategy after months of focusing their messaging on their likely general election opponent.
It will enter the rotation as part of an ad buy totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars by the group Make America Great Again Inc., which supports Mr. Trump.
It aims to paint Mr. DeSantis, with less than three months before the state’s first-in-the-nation caucuses, as insufficiently conservative, by accusing him of supporting statehood for Puerto Rico.
It marks a change in approach by the super PAC, which abandoned negative ads about Mr. DeSantis at the start of the summer.
The group shifted to focusing on the likely general election opponent, and attacking President Biden, beginning in August, a move that might appeal to some primary voters but which also sent the message that Team Trump saw Mr. DeSantis as a fading threat.
Persons:
Donald J, Trump, Ron DeSantis, DeSantis, Biden, DeSantis’s, Andrew Romeo, Team Trump, ”
Organizations:
PAC, Inc, Team
Locations:
Iowa, Puerto Rico