Scott Powers
Gov. Ron DeSantis‘ May 20 Orlando press conference rant belittling the media and others for dire COVID-19 forecasts is coming back to haunt him in campaign ad form.
Florida Democrats launched a one-minute ad Monday featuring CNN host Chris Cuomo putting the Governor’s complaints in the context of dire COVID-19 trends seen since DeSantis’ now frequently rebroadcast statements.
“You got a lot of people in your profession who waxed poetically for weeks and weeks about how Florida is going to be just like New York,” DeSantis said in the conference, while wagging a finger at reporters. “Wait two weeks. Florida is going to be next. Just like Italy. Wait two weeks. Well, hell, we’re eight weeks away from that, and it hasn’t happened.”
Now Florida is eight weeks away from that press conference, and things have changed. Florida now has confirmed 269,119 positive cases of COVID-19, up from 47,471 on May 20. Florida now has 18,271 people who’ve been hospitalized due to the virus and has suffered 4,242 COVID-19 deaths, more than double the 8,681 hospitalizations and 2,096 deaths that were reported by May 20.
The Democrats’ video, “DeSantis Failed Florida,” lets Cuomo do the talking.
“Ignoring the pandemic does not make it go away,” Cuomo said. “This is why states like Florida are in such dire straits. He made [President Donald] Trump happy, Gov. DeSantis did. And now more Floridians than they can count accurately appear to be sick.”
While video shows Cuomo and DeSantis talking a counter moves rapidly from just under 3,000 to the current 269,119 count of coronavirus infections in Florida.
“Since the start of this pandemic, Ron DeSantis has followed Donald Trump’s chaotic lead, making Florida a global hotspot for the coronavirus pandemic,” Florida Democratic Party Chair Terrie Rizzo stated in a news release. “Governor DeSantis isn’t on the ballot this November, but the person guiding him through this failed response is. Floridians can and will hold Trump and Florida Republicans accountable at the ballot box for the devastation caused in our state.”
This is the third video Florida Democrats have released in the past couple of weeks. The party said the first two “racked up more than 1,000,000 organic views, likes and shares on FDP’s social platforms.”
4 comments
Barbara Kimble
July 13, 2020 at 11:38 am
Desantis is so for self I call it all for self and God for all I’m scared to leave my house it’s no telling who has it even family members that’s scary someone needs to take the covid 19 out of trump and desantis hands they don’t know what they are doing
Sonja Fitch
July 13, 2020 at 4:00 pm
Omg. I will send you my $100 today! That is a damn good statement of duffus Desantis’s complete fail to serve and protect Floridians! Get out duffus Desantis!
MJ
July 13, 2020 at 5:01 pm
Gov DeSantis must really be getting under the Fake News skin. Keep up the great work sir! The harder they push, the better your results are.
SANDY OESTREICH
July 14, 2020 at 12:06 pm
I have from the start been a “DeSantis, RESIGN” person for his bumbling handling of the Covis19 here in Florida: he looked like a dear in the headlights for weeks on end; he fired the woman who bravely refused to manipulate data on Florida’s case and death data. He lies just like trump, he thinks like trump, he IS Florida’s trump; they talk often. DeSantis wants to be our next president *(****!!!) whaaaaat?!
7/14/2020 But TODAY I HAD AN EPIPHANY. We’ve always known that DeSantis just has to do what trump tells him to do. But he must feel “under the gun” when that happens. Tell you why:
I’m beginning to get a clearer picture of the dynamics between trump and DeSantis. Gov. DeSantis strikes me now , after I’ve seen and heard him deliver several press conferences, as sort of a victim of trump’s. Like everyone else beholden to him, he must take an awful lot of threats and abuse from trump. I’m guessing that underneath, he is not a bad guy. Just that he is made to take such unConstitutional lies and inhumane actions that I think he is at wit’s end. Imagine tossing all of your principles, if you are a principled guy. Of course he is not going to admit any of this.
So I am going to watch him and see.. That he is urging school openings that are dangerously early, I sense, is NOT what he Wants to do, but is forced to do..and to swallow all the curses wished upon him. Poor fellow, I’m beginning to think. He is not up for re-election in Nov.
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