A Ron DeSantis administration would begin with a bureaucratic bloodbath, the Florida governor vowed – using language that had some potential supporters feeling queasy.

DeSantis, who is down in the polls against former President Donald Trump, brandished the tough talk in his stump speech on a trip to New Hampshire Sunday. 

‘We’re going to have all these deep state people. You know, we’re going to start slitting throats on Day One,’ he said. 

That came after a pledge about cracking down on Mexican drug cartels. ‘At the border, they’re going to be shot stone, cold dead,’ he said, according to New Hampshire’s NPR affiliate .

 DeSantis is used to rolling out tough rhetoric as he battles ‘woke’ politics.

Florida Governor and Republican U.S. presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said he would ‘start slitting throats on Day One’ as he vowed to battle the ‘deep state’

‘We’re going to make sure that the woke agenda ends up in the dustbin of history,’ he said. 

At least one attendee was put off by the language.

‘If I was in charge of his PR, I would have said, “Don’t use that terminology,”‘ said Norm Olsen, who told the station he was a ‘Sununu Republican’ who was exploring candidates challenging Trump.

DailyMail.com reached out to DeSantis’ camp for comment and explanation. 

Trump himself has regularly railed against what he calls the ‘deep state’ at his rallies and on social media. He has vowed to supporters to be ‘your retribution.’

Now facing his third criminal indictment, Trump last month vowed to go after the criminal justice system. ‘I will appoint a real special “prosecutor” to go after the most corrupt president in the history of the USA, Joe Biden, the entire Biden crime family, & all others involved with the destruction of our elections, borders, & country itself!’ Trump posted.

Former President Donald Trump was due in federal court for a hearing following his third indictment

The Trump camp continues to try to cast DeSantis as awkward and exploit campaign missteps. Days ago, he posted a meme of DeSantis wiping his nose in slow-motion. The clip featured the song ‘One of These Things is Not Like the Other.’

That came after an unflattering Daily Beast story reporting that DeSantis allegedly ate with his fingers. 

Two Trump advisors, campaign chair Susie Wiles and Chris LaCivita, released a memo Thursday for ‘interested parties’ where they mocked DeSantis as a robot and brought up his tendency to pronounce his name two different ways in public.

That came on a day Trump was due in federal court facing a four-count indictment for charges related to his effort to overturn the 2020 election.

‘It’s fitting that in the last week the word reboot followed by Ron DeSantis (or is it DEE-SAN Tas?) have appeared no fewer than a dozen times together, all across the country. It seems that this particular robot, however, isn’t turning back on,’ they wrote.

The memo then dunked on him for lopsided polling in early states, while pointing to missteps and claiming ‘Desantis’s campaign is marred by idiocy.’