Posted on 05/15/2023 9:14:43 AM PDT by conservative98
SARASOTA, Fla. (FLV) – A reporter asked Gov. Ron DeSantis whether he believes that former President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election to President Joe Biden due to “fraud.”
The reporter noted comments from DeSantis over the weekend in Iowa where he urged Republicans reject a “culture of losing.”
“Do you acknowledge that Trump lost and there wasn’t all this fraud that he talks about?” the reporter asked DeSantis.
“Well, I look at the last however many election cycles: 2018, we lost the House […] We lost the Senate in 2020, Biden becomes president and has done a huge amount of damage,” he said. “Very unpopular in 2022, and we were supposed to have this big red wave.”
“Other than, like, Florida and Iowa, I didn’t see a red wave across this country,” DeSantis continued. “I think the party has developed a culture of losing. I think that there’s not accountability.”
He pointed to his accomplishments and electoral success in Florida in 2022, winning by nearly 20 points.
“You can sit there and talk about cable news, social media, all these other things that people are fixated on. And for me, it’s like, OK, what’s that true north?” he said. “You obviously got to win otherwise you don’t get a ticket to the dance. But once you do that, how are you going to be able to actually bring about big change to make people’s lives better?”
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“Backed down by McConnell under threat of impeachment conviction”. You cede my point, then, that more than half of his own team was undermining President Trump.
Furthermore, I’ve yet to “attack” Governor DeSantis. I do think he should honor his commitment to the people of Florida and he might make a good Presidential candidate in 2028 if he can shed himself of the GOPe types, that would be Rinos in your parlance, who seem to be running him now.
It is telling, and another exhibit of your TDS, that you are compelled to use words like moron when referring to Donald Trump.
People are getting their lives destroyed over the protest that TRUMP CALLED FOR and weren’t even IN the capital building. If he didn’t have the stones to stare down McConnell and pardon the peaceful protestors at HIS rally over worries of his political future, then he doesn’t deserve the job again. Sorry - not sorry.
Again with the implications about DeSantis. You cannot point to a single policy or action he’s done while in office that wasn’t the right move. Meanwhile, Trump has more warts on his record than a toad, but those are off limits, see.
I called you out for your chickenshciff, half-assed, attempted slam on President Trump because he benefited from an inheritance and you want to change the subject to Ron DeSantis. I can understand you wanting to distance yourself from your initial scurrilous statement and it’s ok with me if you are DeSirous of DeSantis.
You be you.
This has dragged on long enough. You are dull and repetitive. I will remember the immortal words of Lazarus Long, “Never attempt to teach a pig to sing, it wastes your time and annoys the pig.”
As my time is valuable, I will annoy you no more!
“...slam on President Trump because he benefited from an inheritance...”
And truthfully, if/when he inherited from his parents, he already was successful.
His career started by BORROWING from his father, and RE-PAYING it as soon as he possibly could.
These people who think PDJT was born with a silver spoon in his mouth are ignorant and need to pipe down.
Thank you FRiend!
Happy trails. I’ll think of you in the next time Trump embraces yet another ludicrous left-wing position and how you must remain in uncomfortable silence lest your cult hero calls your out for insufficient loyalty.
Of course it is they were complicit why wouldn't they. Fact is they likely were in office by the same method. Elections have been fixed from the beginning to one degree or another, the bigger the electorate the easier it is to steal.
Simple fact is you can't win a battle agains an undefined enemy. Republicans for all of my life always propose serious legislation when there is zero chance of it becoming law. I have voted in every election since I turned 21 and watched the election be stolen from Nixon by a single corrupt Governor of Illinois.
Evidence?
So what. The problem with the party and why we have lost race after race including a shocker in Jacksonville just Tuesday that was supposed to be an easy win is that the party is fixated on issues like 2020 almost four years ago. It’s not a success focusing on that. Especially since no changes are being done by trump.
Brilliant overview.
Jax was never gonna be an easy win ... too many conservatives have escaped to st Johns county.
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