GOP challengers step up Trump criticism, but is it too late?

Less than a week out from the Iowa caucuses, former President Donald Trump’s rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination are starting to find their voices in criticizing him.

Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) told supportive Iowa talk show host Steve Deace that Trump has lost a step or two compared to when he won the presidency.

“If you put a side by side between him in 2016 riffing and really at the top of his game versus now in 2024, I mean, it’s just a different guy that you’re seeing there,” DeSantis said.

Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley implied the country can’t survive Trump’s game if he’s the same guy we’ve been seeing since 2015.

“We can’t have a country in disarray and a world on fire and go through four more years of chaos,” Haley said in Iowa. “We won’t survive it.”

“We have a country to save, and that means no more drama,” she continued, “no more taking things personally.”