A.G. Gancarski
President Donald Trump finished a Friday Florida double-shot on the Panhandle, offering an assessment of the race.
“We’re leading everywhere. I think we’re leading everywhere,” Trump told a big crowd Friday night in Pensacola. “We’re doing great. We’re doing much better than we did last time.”
In Florida, “we’re doing tremendous.”
“The votes are coming in and we’re way ahead of where we’re supposed to be,” Trump added.
Trump opened the event by marveling at the size of the crowd.
“These crowds go all the way down, like football fields,” Trump said. “Something is happening. The other side is getting nervous.”
Even as the President voiced confidence in how things are going, despite most polling showing Biden ahead in most battlegrounds, he continued to focus on Biden’s fundraising advantage.
The President said Biden was winning the fundraising war because he was “making deals,” similarly to how Biden allegedly “uses public office to enrich himself and his family.”
Trump did insert a reasonably novel slam of Mike Bloomberg, noting that when Sen. Elizabeth Warren attacked the billionaire on the debate stage, it was “two billion, down the drain.”
Though a nonstarter as a candidate in terms of voter enthusiasm, Bloomberg is still in the game, spending $100 million in Florida against the President, who already faces a cash gap with Biden and the Democratic National Committee.
The interplay with “the great” Gov. Ron DeSantis, who threw MAGA hats into the crowd, continued.
“Did he say a few words? We don’t want to hear from him again, do we,” Trump joked, continuing a repartee with DeSantis that has become a leit motif of these events.
“I’ve come through every single time for this state,” the President said later on, noting the Governor’s habit of pressing for federal help.
The Governor, in his pre-main event remarks, served up a hearty slab of red meat to the President’s crowd.
DeSantis vowed that Amy Coney Barrett would be on the court 40 years, despite Democrats and media whining and complaining, as he put it.
The Governor also workshopped some lines for a future Fox News hit, including suggesting that Joe Biden would be enfeebled and ineffectual.
“And you know if Kamala was elected she’d really be running the show,” DeSantis said, calling Biden a “corrupt career politician” who’d be “sleeping all day” if elected President.
DeSantis said “CNN journalists are going to start to cry” when they see the election results come in and Republicans dominant.
“They won’t understand what’s going on,” the Governor crowed.
7 comments
Sonja Fitch
October 24, 2020 at 6:46 am
Brainwashed and braindead, Desantis and Trump lead the goptrump death cult folks! You folks in the Panhandle are conservatives not Nazi killers! The goptrump cult crew of Desantis,Trump and Gaetz do not give a rats ass if folks die! Trumps fix for the trumpvirus is to demand Nazi Herd Immunity! Yep you folks in the Panhandle and the Villages are the chosen ones to die! Vote Democrat up and down ballot for the common good !
S B ANTHONY
October 24, 2020 at 7:04 am
race.
“We’re leading everywhere. I think we’re leading everywhere,”…. “We’re doing great. We’re doing much better than we did last time.”
In Florida, “we’re doing tremendous.”
This is the stink of desperation.
Dictators always talk about how beloved they are.
Rob Kanallalan
October 25, 2020 at 6:46 pm
DeSantis is an idiot. More people are dying in his state then any other. He will be defeated the next time he runs.He and Trump are bed buddies and will have the biggest defeat ever
Karin
October 25, 2020 at 10:05 pm
Look at the crowd size, That is winning
NotKaren
October 26, 2020 at 12:48 pm
Of Course “Karin” says look at the crowd size. Look at what crowd size? There are no pictures of crowd size. And take it a step further, ANY crowd size during a world pandemic is a trial of idiocracy. People like you have literally ruined this country’s reputation.
grant roydhouse
October 27, 2020 at 11:15 am
so impressed to comment from little new Zealand.. sometimes known as a hellhole.. (Tr
umps words.. chuckle)
I watch with morbid fascination and endorse comments above. Given the truth is evident.. why do so called journalists print this bs.?? Enablers deserve the credit for assisting disaster.. and it is life or death!
Simple question.. Why has the USA the worlds worst pandemic response?(and thus huge deaths.. How many could be avoided?)
Answer.. ignore scientists and make a health issue a political issue.. Logical result of poor leadership. Then ponder why election is even a race? gd luck
Holland
October 28, 2020 at 1:10 am
This is what happens when you don’t invest in public education. People are too stupid to know who to vote for.
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