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‘He repels people’: DeSantis tears into Fine after Florida special election underperformance
Politico ^ | 04/02/2025 | Kimberly Leonard

Posted on 04/02/2025 11:21:38 AM PDT by sam_whiskey

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis escalated his attacks against Randy Fine on Wednesday, blaming the representative-elect’s “unique problems” for a special election victory he said should have been won by a higher margin.

Appearing at a press conference in Ocala, Florida, the day after the election, DeSantis argued that President Donald Trump’s involvement in the 6th District race pushed Fine over the line. He added voters had not wanted to support Fine, who Trump had endorsed, and that the president “really had to bail him out in the end.”

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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: concerntroll; concerntrolling; desantis; fakenews; fine; politico; politicopostedinnews; pollutico
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Didn’t know this was a dynamic at play in this race as well.
1 posted on 04/02/2025 11:21:38 AM PDT by sam_whiskey
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To: sam_whiskey

I heard fine was pretty bad. Let’s hope someone better emerges for the primary.


2 posted on 04/02/2025 11:24:48 AM PDT by iamgalt
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To: sam_whiskey

I don’t know anything about this but he won

Desanctimonious comes to mind


3 posted on 04/02/2025 11:26:45 AM PDT by stanne (Because they were mesmerized by Obama, the man for whom this was named, whose name they left out of )
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To: sam_whiskey

Politico is trying to muster dissention and unrest between Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump. Remember what their prime directive and categorical imperative is and remains so.

Some 80% bullfeathers.


4 posted on 04/02/2025 11:27:15 AM PDT by alloysteel ( Divergence is not at all the same thing as diversity.)
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To: iamgalt

Odious. It’s one thing for people to make excuses for dead Gazan babies, he actually cheers for it.


5 posted on 04/02/2025 11:27:40 AM PDT by Mr. Blond
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To: sam_whiskey

Posted yesterday that RNC chairman Michael Whatley needs to resign. Nationally - not enough inspired candidates are being “groomed” and supported and too many districts are either being considered too “in the bag” and districts that are tilted Dem but could very well swing, no fight is being put up at all.

A PA special election seat was lost a few weeks ago in a district that went Republican since 1889.

Susan Crawford won her court seat by huge margin in WI yesterday.

What is conservative movement and Repub party going to do without Trump at the helm? 🙄He shouldn’t even be focused on elections right now, he is leading the country!


6 posted on 04/02/2025 11:28:16 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: sam_whiskey

Politico hates DeSantis.. that’d a factor in choosing which comments to push forward.


7 posted on 04/02/2025 11:28:51 AM PDT by GOPJ (Cheaper for Soros to 'rent a small mob' for Town Halls than buy BLM thugs to burn down cities. )
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To: alloysteel

Republican Party needs to shape up. Trump can’t bail GOP out everytime. Look what happened in WI yesterday.


8 posted on 04/02/2025 11:29:07 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
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To: sam_whiskey

put Lara Trump back in

And Whoever was in charge of Preventing vote fraud in 2024,Double their salary and give them a whole team


9 posted on 04/02/2025 11:31:29 AM PDT by Mr. K (no consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: iamgalt

Fine won his race by fifteen points.

The other Florida Republican Congressional candidate last night won their race by fifteen points.

What am I missing here?


10 posted on 04/02/2025 11:33:47 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: sam_whiskey

I think it is relatively easy for a DA, that actually prosecutes, to keep his job. That seems to be the easiest thing in the world to do politically.


11 posted on 04/02/2025 11:34:17 AM PDT by Jonty30 (I can promise I can land any plane that is in the air, because gravity only moves in one direction.)
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To: CondoleezzaProtege

Exactly


12 posted on 04/02/2025 11:34:18 AM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: sam_whiskey

The GOP got their very own Nadler?


13 posted on 04/02/2025 11:37:58 AM PDT by brownsfan (It's going to take real, serious, hard times to wake the American public.)
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To: cgbg

>> What am I missing here?

“Waltz won by 30” armchair quarterbacking, bitching and naysaying.


14 posted on 04/02/2025 11:38:46 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: sam_whiskey

Fine is a fair weather sailor who is a RINO, the minute the weather gets cloudy...he turns to the democrats.

Fine is a goner....will be primaried out.


15 posted on 04/02/2025 11:39:59 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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To: Nervous Tick

The other candidate was also in a +30 Republican district.

I am trying to figure out why one candidate is a target for criticism and the other is not.

I know nothing about either of them.


16 posted on 04/02/2025 11:41:03 AM PDT by cgbg (It was not us. It was them--all along.)
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To: Mr. K

Lara bailed after Trump won POTUS ... numerous house and senate seats were lost because of it ...


17 posted on 04/02/2025 11:44:44 AM PDT by bankwalker (Repeal the 19th ...)
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To: Mr. Blond

Gaza’s babies will just be Gaza’s terrorists in the year 2035. The overwhelming majority of the October 10 7th murder/rapists were little toddlers back in 2006. Wouldn’t have been nice if someone would’ve bombed them back then? A lot of hapless Israeli women probably wish they would’ve been blown up in the crib.


18 posted on 04/02/2025 11:45:33 AM PDT by DesertRhino (2016 Star Wars, 2020 The Empire Strikes Back, 2025... RETURN OF THE JEDI...)
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To: sam_whiskey

I’m one of the Volusia County Rs who voted for Fine. I do have concerns about him, but due to lack of knowledge on certain issues.

I voted for Waltz ONCE. Wouldn’t vote for him again. We called him “The Representative of NATO.” Unlimited Ukraine support, including big $$$. And he voted to renew FISA with ZERO changes!!! Serious wtf there, on both.

I was very happy Trump picked him off the friken House Intel Committee. Good riddance!!! Less damage now. I honestly am not surprised at all that he’s showing signs of being a mole. He’s not to be trusted. Waltz is in it for Waltz, always and forever. I truly think he’s got his eye on King of NATO or some other high paying globalist position for the future.

Fine is a bomb thrower for sure, but I like it these days. He is vehemently pro-Israel and anti-Jihadis, and freely calls out the muslim problems worldwide. Which is Fine with me. Remains to be seen how he stands against the globalists behind endless wars and zero privacy. Guess we’ll find out.


19 posted on 04/02/2025 11:46:04 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (MAGA!!!!)
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To: iamgalt

He made a statement last nite, something on the lines of thanking President Trump and ‘I won’t let you down’. That’s all I personally need to hear.


20 posted on 04/02/2025 11:48:11 AM PDT by LibertyWoman (Turns out, all we needed was a new President...)
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