Posted on 05/25/2023 11:39:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Former President Trump says “even” former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) handled the coronavirus pandemic better than Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R), his latest attack the day after DeSantis officially joined the 2024 GOP presidential primary.
Trump said in a video from his campaign on Thursday that Florida had among the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 in the country and shut down numerous public locations at the onset of the pandemic, including beaches. “How about the fact that he had the third-most deaths of any state… Even Cuomo did better. He was No. 4,” Trump said.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that Florida had the third-highest number of COVID-19-related deaths in 2021, while New York had the fourth-most. But the data also shows Florida had the 18th-highest death rate per 100,000 residents that year.
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Im with you. Enough is enough. Act like you’ve been there before, DJT!
I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m fed up with all of them. We need the people of this country to change otherwise this is the same crap over and over.
It didn’t hurt him in 2016 because it caught people by surprise......not this time and it’s worse this time around.
He does what he does at his own peril and need not blame anyone but himself when what many of us see coming happens.
DeSantics attacked President Trump on COVID, President Trump counterpunched. Only a fool can’t see that’s what is going on.
This kind of talk doesn’t matter to the only-Trumpers, but Trump can’t win the White House with just their votes.
“ Obviously, you have to put this on a per capita basis. According to the excerpt, that puts Florida at 18 not 3.”
Absolutely......everybody with half a brain knows that, and yet Trump twisted it anyway.....insulting peoples intelligence isn’t going to win over voters......just the opposite I would imagine.
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And FLORIDA HAS A DISPROPORTIONATE POPULATION PERCENTAGE OF OLD PEOPLE.
Where do many blue state residents (e.g., NEW YORKERS) go to when they retire?…. FLORIDA!
Many NEW YORKERS GO TO FLORIDA TO GET OLD AND DIE. COVID fatalities hit the elderly and infirm mostly.
“This kind of talk is turning me off”
Someone has to put some heat on DeSantis.
He and his supporters will need to toughen up in the event of his becoming the Republican candidate.
No, he did NOT.
Your not telling me anything bro......I’m up to my eyeballs in blue haired yankees. Lol!
Florida seems to be filling from the bottom up.....we were exempt from a lot of the migration where i am until brandon. Not any more....they finally found us. 😏
Just in my town alone the number of northern plates I see on cars is unbelievable.
And other states as well.
“Call your mother, maybe she’ll/he’ll care.”
I’m sure your two dads agree.
I’ve been defending Trump against the Freepers here with TDS and still likely will vote for him, but this is plain stupid. DeSantis did a REMARKABLE job. From keeping the state open and offering anti-bodies to everyone. While Cuomo was killing the elderly in nursing homes.
florida over 65.....22%,,,,,,
nys over 65....14%
Florida is a retirement state with a much larger percentage of elderly per capita. Numbers never lie, but liars use numbers. Plus I don’t trust reporting out of NY. You don’t remember the stories about Cuomo manipulating the numbers?
That's fair. I blame Trump for a lot of of the crap he steps in. And a lot on the unified globalist/deep state/msm complex that is hellbent on persecuting him.
I expect to be voting for either him or DeSantis next year. But realistically, I don't think DeSantis stands much of a chance in the primaries and almost none at all in the general in 2024.
Show me one thing that DeSantis had done as Governor, that is not Conservative. Bush’s support has zero to do with DeSantis and more to do with hatred of Trump.
Trump’s babbling nonsense shows that Biden isn’t the only one out who’s having cognitive issues.
So unnecessary and idiotic for Trump to be saying. Besides Coumo killed how many hundreds or thousands in nursing homes? I don’t recall anybody suggesting that DeSantis killed anyone, especially intentionally like Coumo.
Ditto...
Have sent emails to SaveAmerica voicing same...
And the bottom line remains...there are no actual Covid death numbers. They were derived from deaths in previous years and the excess of some kind of concocted average became Covid deaths.
Perhaps one of the big things is the number of businesses that were "killed off" in NYS because of the mandated isolation.
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