Rival GOP presidential campaigns fire off thoughts on Ron DeSantis' Fox News town hall

Florida GOP Governor Ron DeSantis' rivals for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination took aim at the populist presidential candidate after his Tuesday town hall event.

DeSantis joined Fox News for a town hall event in the Hawkeye State ahead of the famous Iowa Caucus, where the governor spoke on inflation and government accountability and took questions from the audience.

Following DeSantis' town hall discussion with Fox News' Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, though, the Florida governor's GOP rivals fired off their thoughts on his performance.

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Former President Trump's campaign went off during the town hall event, attacking DeSantis' record on the COVID-19 pandemic and claiming in one post that the Florida governor "issued some of the most draconian Covid restrictions of anywhere in the United States."

In another post, the Trump campaign wrote, "Ron DeSanctimonious PRAISES Trump's COVID Task Force, says Fauci and Birx were doing a good job," with a clip of DeSantis from during the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Ron DeSantis and his allies have set him up for devastating failure," the Trump campaign tweeted. "Everything he does is one giant astroturf that will be exposed in just a few short days."

Trump's campaign also shared a CNN clip that the campaign said "exposed" the governor as a "massive COVID hypocrite."

"MUST WATCH: DeSantis EXPOSED as MASSIVE COVID HYPOCRITE, repeatedly praised Fauci and his policies during the pandemic," Trump wrote.

Former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's campaign chirped at DeSantis during his town hall, too, slamming the governor over his answers to various questions, from inflation to his polling