Posted on 10/01/2023 9:24:17 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Florida GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis is taking the fight to former President Donald Trump, calling out the polling leader's refusal to debate as an indication Trump cannot beat President Joe Biden.
"He's not showing up: He's missing in action," DeSantis told HBO's "Real Time With Bill Maher" on Friday night. "He owes it to voters to show up and defend his record. And I think he thinks he can take a juiced [up] poll, and then people don't get to vote. That's not the way the system works.
"You've got to go earn votes. So I'm showing up."
DeSantis is calling out Trump to a debate, like he has California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, pointing to his performance in the second debate — during which, pundits noted, he was presidential.
"I was the one guy that people said, 'You know what? This guy is actually acting like a president when the rest were not,'" DeSantis told Maher. "And so, OK, there I am. I told Donald, 'Let's do a debate.'
"I'm debating your governor, Gavin Newsom," DeSantis continued to Hollywood host Bill Maher.
"But let's do a debate with me and him. I'll do it."
DeSantis rejected Maher's belief Trump is unbeatable.
"That's not true," DeSantis said. "So, one, I don't think he can win the election. I could win the election. Two, I don't think he could actually get the job done that we need to do.
"For example: COVID. I think we need accountability for what this government did to this country with the COVID restrictions, mandates, and lockdowns. Donald Trump is not going to do that. He says he did everything right. He says he saved millions of lives with lockdowns. He claims his MNRA shot saved 100 million lives."
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Leave it to Meatball to say “I’m showing up”. LOL
Hey Ron, showing up means very little. You think you get votes because you showed up and made a jackass out of yourself?
W. Bush was a rising star as Texas governor and became one of our worst presidents. At least we are being spared DeSantis.
Jesus Christ couldn’t win on the GOP ticket in 2024. Trump is well aware of it. There will not be another rigged and stolen election.
DeSantis has shown he is in league with the Uni-Party establishment.
That witch Haley is doing better than him.
You prefer Al Gore? He'll restrict the oil industry. Much like we're seeing under the Biden Administration right now.
Get real, globalist Bush was no better than Gore and was likely worse. Would ya like me to show ya the damage that AH did? Lemme know.
Say what you will about George W. Bush, but he kept the economy running during his administration.
Gimmme a sec slick...I’ll show how great Mr. Boosh was.
Lets start with this...Millions have yet to recover from the Bush era.
A audio speech of Bush, just a couple years prior to the epic housing collapse where Boosh is demanding home loans for totally unqualified minorities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GkAtUq0OJ68
Dallas Texas 2006, during war time, under Republican George Bush.
So emboldened by open borders Bush, 500,000 illegal aliens march on Dallas Texas pushing foreign flags in our faces and while making demands and threats. All while Bush celebrated Cinco De Mayo up in the White House...During war time.
And this went on in every major city in the U.S. During war time.
I dunno.
But Bush is still better than Al Gore.
How much did globalist Bush cost us in Iraq? That globalist SOB looted 4 trillion in American treasure with his 10 year long “Compassionate war”....
AND WE WON NOTHING BUT DEBT AND DEATH!
Al Gore was a piker comparted to globalist Bush.
We're getting a lot of damage right now due to mandates from the Biden Administration.
I try to look at things from the macro level. If Al Gore had restricted our production of oil, our standard of living would have gone down because everything would have cost more.
It's likely that Gore would have banned shale oil because it's bad for the environment, you know. We would be in a different place today.
You don’t know squat because it never happened. I’d guess Boosh was 5 times worse and caused way more damage than Gore could have ever done.
2000 was a different time than 2016.
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