Posted on 10/19/2023 10:34:35 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
During an interview with NewsNation aired on Wednesday’s broadcast of “The Hill,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis argued that if his rival Republican candidate former President Donald Trump had followed his promise to build a wall on the border, “it would have been much more difficult for Biden to get away with” the damage he’s done on the border.
DeSantis said, “I do think, when he’s saying things, like, in Iowa, the other day, that, well, he couldn’t follow his campaign promise to have Mexico build the border — pay for the border wall, because there was, no legal mechanism he could have used to have Mexico pay, so he’s rationalizing that failure. The problem is, that was his main campaign promise. I was at the rallies. It was fun. Everyone was cheering that. And the second thing is there actually was a way he could have done that. He could have imposed fees — and I will do this as president — you could have imposed fees on the remittances that people send to foreign countries, Mexico included. That would have raised billions of dollars.”
He added, “I think it’s important, because that was his core campaign promise. You look at what Biden’s done with that border. If he had followed through and built the wall, it would have been much more difficult for Biden to get away with what’s happened.”
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It wasn’t Trump that blocked construction of the wall.
Lay blame where it belongs.
Feckless Republicans.
Some Republicans were fighting against funding for the wall. Trump had lots of pressure from all sides.
desantis, your donors did all they could to prevent it
see ryan, mcconnell
they have the same donors
Cool, Ron. Now, do insurance rates in Florida.
No shite sherlock. Welding gates open, cutting razor wire, starting the process inside foreign countries without background checks, ID’s, giving out cell phones with a date certain on them to show up at court. Buses, planes, actually tearing down some barriers, and selling the materials to finish for pennies on the dollar. DeSantis can go BLEEP himself, running all the way back to the snake hole he crawled out of.
As Bugs Bunny would say “What a Maroon!”
Meatball sounds like a desperate libtard blaming Trump for President Retard’s screwups
I’m glad his numbers are in the 🚽 toilet where they belong
not the governor’s job
DeSantis and his research people messed up...
This guy is a real POS. Florida you can have him back, but I’d advise you to get rid of him as soon as possible.
Secure Florida’s elections...
What is this idiot talking about? The CPB welded the gates open. I can’t wait to see the headline “desantis suspends campaign on disaster Iowa resuklts and catastrophic fundraising
I hope meatball never thinks of running for president again
He just flat out sucks
Somebody has to say it
Back in your box Mr. Bobblehead!
Libtards blowing Trump smoke up my butt for 7 or 8 years and now here comes meatball doing the same thing
Just what we need
People like McCarthy and Patrick McHenry were not in favor of the wall, but should be against one now.
Fatigue? Stupid? or just hitting the pipe early today? Trump did more for Border Security than all presidents combined that served before him. It was the Ruling Class that pulled out all the stops to prevent him from completing it.
You can NOT have a War on Drugs without Drugs, and the War on Drugs is a multi billion dollar a year boondoggle. Hundreds of thousands if not millions of Government Union Employee’s are employed directly in the War on Drugs. What would they all do if we closed the border and stopped the free flow of drugs?
What a shame, DeSantis is imploding, destroying any reputation he had. I have never been a fan but it’s sad to see the transparent pandering and gaslighting.
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