Posted on 08/07/2023 9:08:48 AM PDT by Tench_Coxe
NEW YORK -- Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis said definitively that rival Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, an acknowledgement the Florida governor made after years of equivocating answers.
“Of course he lost,” DeSantis said an interview with NBC News posted Monday. “Joe Biden's the president.”
DeSantis has often sidestepped questions about whether he believes the 2020 election results were legitimate. But in recent days he has started publicly questioning the lies that Trump and his allies have made about the election's legitimacy.
Federal and state election officials and Trump’s own attorney general said there was no credible evidence the election’s outcome was affected by fraud. The former president’s allegations were also roundly rejected by courts at the time, including judges he appointed.
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Another brain-trust that thinks it makes perfect sense for
Biden to have pulled in 81 million votes, even though
“the One” and “Mrs. Clinton couldn’t come within 5 to 10
million of that figure on their last go-round.
What has eaten the brains of otherwise intelligent people?
Liberalism.
That is too bad if true.
Yes, the whole ball of wax under that title.
It’s just very hard to see a good governor flail around without a coherent message for months and then come up with the single line that will cost him support of most of the GOP base and will certainly put him out of the running for Trump VP.
When you look up and realize you are in a hole, quit digging.
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