‘You Lost Donald! #DeSantis2024’ Plane Banner Flies Over Mar-A-Lago As GOP Rivalry Heats Up

Donald Trump, who has recently announced that he filed to run for President in 2024, is facing some mudslinging from supporters of his likely GOP opponent Ron DeSantis, whom he called “average” last week.

While Trump was the star of the GOP for many years, he doesn’t seem to have the same degree of fervent enthusiasm he built behind himself by the end of his 2016 campaign, but it’s still early.

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It’s not confirmed whether these planes were commissioned by the DeSantis camp, but some have suggested that he could have signed off on it after his recent successful re-election bid to continue as Florida’s governor.

His announcement was apparently counter to expert advice that he wait to announce until after the Georgia runoff election in early December. Several candidates who were endorsed by Trump, including high-profile ones like Dr. Mehmet Oz in Pennsylvania and Kari Lake in Arizona, did not win their races. Though on the flip side, 42 candidates endorsed by Trump in races deemed “competitive” by the NBC News Decision Desk won out in the midterms.

At his Tuesday night announcement at Mar-a-Lago, it was still a who’s-who of former Trump world  luminaries. Supporters such as Roger Stone, MyPilow CEO Mike Lindell and former Republican Rep. Devin Nunes were present at the event.

Trump continues to falsely contend that the 2020 election was stolen or manipulated to secure Joe Biden’s victory and even mentioned it in his speech Tuesday night. He spoke about eliminating mail-in and electronic voting methods to eliminate nonexistent “cheating,” if elected as President again, though the federal government does not run elections.

Democrats may even mount a legal challenge against Trump as he builds his campaign. Rep. David Cicilline (D-Rhode Island), has drafted legislation that would “prevent Donald Trump from holding public office again under the Fourteenth Amendment,” he wrote a letter he sent to Democratic colleagues the night of Trump’s announcement.

He cited the 14th amendment’s third section or “Disqualification Clause,” which says individuals should not be allowed to hold office if they “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof,” arguing that Trump’s election denial and incitement of the 2021 Capitol Riots qualifies as engaging in “insurrection.”