DeSantis is often considered Trump's biggest potential primary threat, and the former president has been opening fire on the governor ever since the midterm elections. He had nothing! He was dead, he was leaving the race, he came over and he begged me, begged me, for an endorsement. He was getting ready to drop out," Trump said. He then shared how DeSantis supposedly grovelled for his help in beating Adam Putnam in Florida's Republican primary. "There were tears coming down from his eyes. He said if you endorse me, I'll win,' said Trump. "So I end up doing it, and he wins. They say it was like a bomb went off. Just a bomb totally went off. From the moment I endorsed him, he went from losing by numbers that were not catchable to winning easily."