Posted on 08/04/2023 1:11:22 PM PDT by aperez77
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis on Friday offered his strongest dismissal of the election fraud theories at the heart of former President Donald Trump's push to overturn the 2020 election.
Asked by a reporter during a campaign stop in Iowa whether the 2020 election was "stolen," DeSantis said the fraud theories "did not prove to be true." He did not, however, mention the name of his top rival for the GOP nomination, who was just indicted for allegedly working to overturn the last presidential election.
"I've said many times the election is what it is," DeSantis said. "All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true. But what I've also said is the way you conduct a good election that people have confidence in, you don't change the rules in the middle of the game."
DeSantis went on to talk up changes made to Florida election law under his administration. And he criticized Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg's grants for election administration, as well as social media outlets for deemphasizing information from President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden's laptop ahead of the 2020 vote — two favorite targets of conservatives when excoriating the last presidential election.
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Idiot, they weren’t allowed to be “proven.”
Way to take a stand!
Sorry, but he sounds like Mitt.
Desantis will likely argue that Trump hasn’t been able to convince one judge to overturn an election due to fraud.
So which is it? Seems like he is implying that rules were broken and changed but the theories are wrong? This statement make no sense. Spoken like a true politician.
Neither the DOPJ or any state agency did an earnest job in investigating fraud in the 2020 election, but then if they found it then their sworn enemy Donald J. Trump would have had a second term.
Google “2000 mules debunked”.
Ron wants both sides of this.
Meatball has his head up his butt
He is DONE. And Kristi Noem smiles.
DeSantis = DeLoser
Hard to convice anyone that wont hear your case.
For example, in PA the ballot counting was in direct violation of the law with regards to postmarks but it was totally ignored by the Supreme Court of PA. That is not a "theory", that is what happened and can be proven demonstratively. There is no doubt that this trickery changed the outcome of the election.
Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court extended the due date for mail ballots in the November election, a decision that will likely result in more votes being counted in the state — and more time to determine the final results. Mail-in ballots in Pennsylvania have previously been due by the time polls close on Election Day. But the court’s order adds a three-day extension to receive ballots that are postmarked by 8 p.m. on Election Day. Ballots with a preelection postmark will now be counted as long as they are received by 5 p.m. on Nov. 6, three days after the polls close.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/09/17/pennsylvania-mail-ballot-deadline-extended-417044
I’ve been a big fan of DeSantis in the past, but as of late, I’m starting to notice the number of times he tends to step on his own d*ck in an unforced fashion.
I feel like he is permanently damaging himself to a political base that he would have DOMINATED in 2028.
Sad.
BINGO!
In many cases, just pure laziness created chaos.
Deemphasizing....what a political. I’d never support this Repuke
If the “election is what it is” there there is no need for me to vote ever again. If the Deep State chooses all our Federal leaders by manipulating elections, how is that any different from being ruled by kings, princes, dukes, counts, and the rest of it? The Lord rebuke all politicians. Hard.
Haven’t seen any proof that the election was on the level.
Sorry Ron. Just lost me.
Did DeSantis investigate any of them?
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