DeSantis says he’ll ‘actually’ build border wall, swipes at Trump as both campaign in New Hampshire

By MICHELLE L. PRICE, HOLLY RAMER and WILL WEISSERT
Associated Press

HOLLIS, N.H. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis promised Tuesday to tear down Washington’s traditional political power centers and secure the country’s southern border, pledging to succeed where former President Donald Trump failed as the two held dueling campaign events in the critical early primary voting state of New Hampshire. Addressing a townhall in Hollis, DeSantis offered some of his sharpest contrasts yet with Trump, the GOP primary’s early front-runner. The governor suggested that he’d wall off the entire border, not just talk about it like the former president did. He also noted that Trump had failed to “drain the swamp” and weaken the Washington bureaucracy, promising that he’d instead break it down entirely.