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Posted on 04/13/2021 5:53:43 AM PDT by lightman
If there is one person in liberal America who is hated as much as Donald Trump, it has to be Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. He’s the heir apparent to the Trump coalition. He’s a potential presidential candidate—and media attacks only increase his name ID. He’s handled COVID exceptionally well in his state, especially when it comes to their vaccination plan. He was attacked for vaccinating the elderly first. Yes, that happened because the media knows the deal. They have to destroy him before he clinches any more wins. The problem is that they’ve failed miserably at it. They talk about the facts. Well, DeSantis has been making them eat it for months since the facts favor his view on the pandemic. Right now, Florida has reached another good benchmark: COVID deaths have remained in the single digits (via Palm Beach Post):
For the first time in almost seven months, the state of Florida reported only a single-digit increase in new reported deaths linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
The state health department said seven more Floridians and two additional non-residents have died due to COVID-19. Over the past two weeks, daily reported COVID deaths across the state have ranged between 22 and 98, and the week-to-week reported deaths have been on a slow decline since January.
Just five new coronavirus deaths in Florida were reported Sept. 28.
Florida also saw 5,520 new cases of COVID-19, with a daily positivity rate of 7.65%. Palm Beach County reported 350 new cases and 6.36% positivity. No new deaths were reported in the county.
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But because Floridians aged 16 and older were eligible to access the vaccine without a doctor's note or certain occupation on April 5, as of Sunday almost 1 million more people had received a shot of either the Pfizer, Moderna or Johnson & Johnson vaccines.
Meanwhile, New York, long seen as a beacon on how to handle COVID, is nowhere in the picture anymore. Maybe that’s because Gov. Andrew Cuomo still presides over a state that was far worse regarding its infection and death rate. He allegedly groped scores of women. And he cooked the books on the COVID nursing home death count because he knew his idiotic order to force these facilities to admit COVID-positive patients likely spread the virus. Better yet, it spread it among the population who are most susceptible to dying from it if infected. Thousands of elderly New Yorkers were killed by the policy. Recommended Who Knew It Was So Profitable to Be Marxist? Derek Hunter
So, yes, I can see why CBS News decided to peddle a fabricated story about a pay-to-play scheme between Publix, the state’s largest grocery chain, and Gov. DeSantis over COVID vaccination distribution. They have to destroy this man by any means necessary. It’s also 60 Minutes, which has a history of lying, like George W. Bush and the Killian fiasco back in 2004 that led to Dan Rather being lambasted for peddling fabricated documents about the former president’s time in the Texas Air National Guard. This 2004 story was also done to tilt the election, but that’s a whole other matter.
DeSantis and Florida lead the way. A red state did it right—the Left cannot stand it. Meanwhile, California Gov. Gavin Newsom is facing a recall. Cuomo has been engulfed in scandal. The faces of liberal America are total failures when it comes to COVID.
The issue is FREE States and FEAR States!
Up yours, Grinchy WHitler!
The other day my county here in Fl had ZERO new cases. We had been running under 10 for a few days. No comment in the news of course which seems to run AP and Florida News Service (commies) negative of the governor almost every other day.
They have been out to get him. Today there was a story about one of the elected state officials and probably his dem adversary supporting a bill about credit card skimmers. IMO, this was nothing but a puff piece to put her mug in the paper. I hope she gets beat 99 to 1 but am positive it will be far closer as some people are just brain dead if not corrupted by the media.
DeSantis knows how to fight back, he’s got all the good things of Trump, but he’s younger, and he actually has a good team working for him.
The teamwork thing is the biggest factor to me. For God’s sake Trump couldn’t have picked worse people (outside his family at least).
DeSantis knows how to fight back, he’s got all the good things of Trump, but he’s younger, and he actually has a good team working for him.
:-)
Trump could only pick from what was available.
Basically the word came down from the GOPe higher ups that if you weren't on their list, they would never confirm anyone who wasn't "Deep State" approved. That, and others were intimidated into not wanting to help the Administration. The GOPe sabotaged Trump all the way.
DeSantis has the advantage of being a Governor, and thus can immunize himself from all that.
Trump took the arrows, so that eventually a guy like DeSantis could be President.
I think the “team” is the key here. DeSantis is a seasoned politician who has people that will have his back. Trump had very few of those people due to his lack of political experience.
I’m truly hopeful that DeSantis can be the Republican nominee in 2024. He’s got the leadership style we need in place in the WH for 8 years.
Well said!
Very well said!
I’m not so sure, Trump’s recommended a lot of pretty questionable people, just in general. What worked ok in business clearly didn’t work in politics. I’m sure some of what you said happened quite a bit to those he actually assigned to jobs while President.
I think it was significant that Haley said she would not run in 2024, I have a feeling behind the scenes, Trump is making it clear that it will be either him or DeSantis, and others might as well not bother.
Everyone in Washington is “questionable”.
It is what it is, good people really don’t want to be in public service these days.
We’ve been stuck with blue for Donks since 1980.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-republicans-were-blue-and-democrats-were-red-104176297/
Kind of hard to change it back, now.
I agree!
Haley finally got the message.
We love DeSantis here!....a real gift to Florida!
"60 Minutes" history of lying that goes back far-far before that. In 1969 they interviewed a GM executive about Corvair safety issues. They actually altered the tape of the questions that were asked during the interview to make the answers appear to be the opposite of what was actually meant.
I worked for GM at the time, and GM made it a policy to never again do an interview with them, unless GM would also tape the interview. CBS never agreed to that, and you have never seen an interview with GM since then on the show.
Since that episode, I have only watched "60 Minutes" once. It was the interview with Rush Limbaugh. He had his own much larger audience than they did, so they didn't dare to alter it. You can assume: If it's 60 Minutes, it's a lie.
DeSantis looks like he can throw it right back at them.
“I’m truly hopeful that DeSantis can be the Republican nominee in 2024.”
Yea, but Kristi is better looking, and that’s all that seems to matter, per a decent number of people here.
Let’s see, Florida, population 21 Million, vs South Dakota 884,000.
I think running the State of Florida is just a bit more complex than running South Dakota, don’cha think?
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