A.G. Gancarski
In a prepared statement Monday, Republican Senate hopeful Ron DeSantis questioned President Obama’s “risky refugee gambit,” in casting doubt on the wisdom of allowing Syrian refugees into the United States in the wake of the Friday attacks in Paris.
DeSantis poses the question exactly as one might expect.
“Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama want the United States to take tens of thousands of Syrian refugees despite the terrorist attacks in Paris and the government’s inability to screen them for terrorist sympathies. Do Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson agree with them?”
DeSantis, going further, argues that “[w]e have to err on the side of protecting the American people and we cannot run the risk of bringing terrorists into the United States. One of the terrorists in the Paris attack came into France as a refugee and left earth as part of a coordinated attack that killed innocent people. Patrick Murphy and Alan Grayson already support Obama’s reckless Iran deal – do they stand with him on his risky refugee policy as well?”
As with other communications where DeSantis calls out the two front-runners from the other party, DeSantis is clearly positioning for a national security discussion in the general election.
