[RoosterRedux]

Exactly which vaccine “stuff” is it that nobody believes?

[Steely Tom]

So is this supposed to be some sort of massive scandal?

[Lizavetta]

I wasn't here when Desantis was dealing with COVID but everyone here seems to believe that he did what other governors did at first but them reversed himself, rightly so, and opened the state back up.

I'm really not interested what he believed or didn't believe. He did the right thing in the end.

[Jonty30]

Whether you agree with him or not about the vaccines and covid, his position about it as Governor was highly defendable.

[Republican Wildcat]

Well that is one very valid criticism of DeSantis that is entirely valid - his disingenuousness on the COVID narrative to try to create a means to attack Trump. It was garbage. It is not effective against Trump, and moreover, DeSantis threw away major bragging rights he could have campaigned on with regard to how he got Florida out of the COVID crises earlier than many other states. He took an all of the above approach and was even more aggressive to making treatments available to all vs. making vaccines available to those who wanted them. He even had to battle with the Biden administration when they tried to block and prevent the efforts to provide treatment.

It could have been an entirely positive campaign narrative to build up his positives - a major campaign plank. It was a stupid move in more ways than one. Now he not only blew a huge opportunity when he had it, but what’s more - given how he tried to change the entire narrative to be a negative on Trump himself (rather than against Biden) - he now can’t reclaim it in the future - either in the primary, or if somehow was to pull this off, he also negates being able to use it for himself and against Biden.

[Socon-Econ]

Some think it works and is as safe as any other vaccine. Some do not. What’s important is that the vaccine be voluntary, and DeSantis and Trump are both in this camp.

[McGruff]

Just politics?

How are we to believe anything he says then?

[Tell It Right]

... said one “megadonor” on the condition of anonymity

Ho hum. I'm a Trump supporter yet I won't believe this against DeSantis until I hear it from Mr. Anonymous himself.

[BobL]

I saw the ‘debate’ earlier - please DOUBLE DOWN with the warnings about DeSantis, even if that upsets the Ukraine War supporters.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

DeSnakis Placemarker 🐍

[TBP]

DeSantis says what he beleives and believes what he says.

[BobL]

“Ron DeSantis and his team do not really believe the narrative they have constructed against Donald Trump around COVID, with one of his top financial backers telling the media the ruse is just “politics”.”

Well, there goes that line of attack...