Posted on 08/04/2023 2:45:02 PM PDT by MNDude
Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida said that claims about the 2020 election being stolen were false, directly contradicting a central argument of former President Donald J. Trump and his supporters.
The comments went further than Mr. DeSantis typically goes when asked about Mr. Trump’s defeat. The governor has often tried to hedge, refusing to acknowledge that the election was fairly conducted. In his response on Friday, Mr. DeSantis did not mention Mr. Trump by name — saying merely that such theories were “unsubstantiated.” But the implication was clear.
“All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true,” Mr. DeSantis said in response to a reporter’s question after a campaign event at a brewery in Northeast Iowa.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
It wasn’t just stolen. It was stolen from Trump.
If DeSantis actually said this (consider the source), it is an unforced error on his part.
I have been a DeSantis supporter. Unless the New York Slimes lied outright, I can no longer suppoet him.
Wrong answer, Meatball
This is a total middle finger to everyone thay voted for Trump and essentially all conservatives.
I hope he is replaced as governor soon enough
69% of Republican believe there was voting violations.. Keep digging Ron… you’ll catch up to 30 Pence.
Even if one has a belief that ot wasn’t intentionally stolen, ots shocking the can’t admit at the very least, that there were irregularities.
Simple. He got the same memo that Pence and Barr and all the other GOPe members. Their responses are all the same.
You Leave.
The only person responsible for Ronnie’s Campaign is Ronnie.
I agree with you completely.
To be a candidate and assume that the 2020 election had no irregularities is ignorant or corrupt.
As if we needed anymore evidence that DeSantis has sold out to the GOP establishment.
That would tend to explain it.
No, that's a role he's played as governor of Florida, much like Jeb Bush did.
DeSantis, as proven by his denial about election fraud, is bought and paid for by donors and GOP establishment. When they say jump, he says how high. He's nothing but a puppet that can't be trusted.
You’re done Ron. If you couldn’t see the obvious you’re too dumb to be anywhere other than Florida
He could tell the truth
Trump doesn’t need your advice
DeSantis takes the Donor position on:
Ukraine War
Tariffs
2020 fraud
All that is left is Amnesty, Entitlement cuts and “market based” carbon taxes.
As usual, all the leftist media outlets are distorting what DeSantis said, and then all the Trump media outlets are distorting what he said. Here’s part of what he actually said:
“DeSantis: “You don’t change the rules in the middle of the game. You don’t ballot harvest. You don’t do Zuckerbucks, and clearly having the agencies work with Facebook to censor things like Hunter Biden, that’s unfair. So it was not an election that was conducted the way I think we want to, but that’s different than saying Maduro stole votes or something like that. And I think those theories proved to be unsubstantiated.” https://twitter.com/DeSantisWarRoom/status/1687550232807014400
This sounds like a pretty reasonable statement to me.
But then it gets distorted by summarizing it as “DeSantis says all stolen election theories are false”. On the contrary, he indicated that they were problems, and he said some were “unsubstantiated” or “did not prove to be true”, which is not the same thing is saying that they were all false.
“Trump has divided the Gop and we will lose big including the WH and the House and Senate too if”
You are a riot. What Trump has done is smoke out the RINOs in the Republican Party.
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