Ron DeSantis labels Kamala Harris ‘impeachment insurance’
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"Nobody wants Harris, and so they'd much rather stick with Biden floundering around."

Gov. Ron DeSantis offered a tough critique of Vice President Kamala Harris during a Friday night interview on Fox News.

DeSantis, appearing on the Ingraham Angle, was asked how “formidable” Harris is as a standard bearer for the Democratic Party, prompting a brutal answer from the Florida Governor.

“So, here’s the thing. I thought Biden picking her at first was the worst decision ever because she’s not great. But she’s like the best impeachment insurance and 25th Amendment insurance anyone could have,” DeSantis said.

“Because as bad as Biden is, even though he can barely read the teleprompter, and as much as people disapprove of him, nobody wants Harris, and so they’d much rather stick with Biden floundering around than actually turn the wheels of power over to somebody that clearly is in over her head,” DeSantis said.

Whether lines like this are a preview of 2024 remains to be seen. Meanwhile, polling continues to pour in showing Gov. Ron DeSantis with a shot at the presidency if he launches a campaign, including against Biden or Harris.

Though DeSantis has consistently said he’s not eyeing a run for the White House, a recent survey conducted by Echelon Insights suggests that whether Democrats nominated Biden or Harris in 2024, DeSantis would be at least competitive.

In what was a D+5 poll surveying 42% Democrats, 37% Republicans and the remainder otherwise unaffiliated, Biden holds a 4-point lead over DeSantis among likely voters, with 45% support compared to 41% for DeSantis. Among registered voters, Biden leads 45% to 39%.

DeSantis took 6% of Democrats polled against Biden, who got support from just 5% of Republicans in this survey.

Against Harris, DeSantis fared even better in the same poll. The Vice President took 43% of likely voters, 1 point above DeSantis. She had a 3-point lead with registered voters.

DeSantis drew 7% of Democrats polled against Harris, while she commanded just 4% support among Republicans. Independent voters preferred DeSantis against Harris by a strong 41% to 32%.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has written for FloridaPolitics.com since 2014. He is based in Northeast Florida. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


61 comments

  • Joe Corsin

    July 23, 2022 at 8:18 am

    Vote RED for far right propaganda by rich hogs
    Vote RED for forced birth of meth babies
    Vote RED for low wage slavery
    Vote RED for anti government terrorists
    Vote RED for religious assholes
    Vote RED for police state

    • Impeach Biden

      July 23, 2022 at 9:04 am

      Joe Corsin

      When you can’t defend 40 year inflation.
      When you can’t defend record high fuel prices.
      When you can’t defend the chaos at the Southern Border.
      When you can’t defend record high city crime.
      When you can’t defend the defund the police movement.

      You revert to the old Democrat talking points of calling your opponents racist, homophobic, nazi, etc. Then at some point you will say they are coming to take you social security, your health care. You have nothing Joe Corsin and all but the 30% that shockingly think that “Dementia” Joe is doing a good job are going to take back our country in November.

      • Joe Corsin

        July 23, 2022 at 9:32 am

        Inflation is global and doesn’t start just because one man gets out of a chair and another man sits down. Had Trump done anything but sit on his balls and cheer while the economy overheated.. we might not have such big problems. Then it’s always the Democrats who can’t clean up hog grifter messes fast enough for the hogs. Until the GOP supporters more intervention into the free market then we can expect these highs and lows forever or until everyone is wiped out. Enjoy!

        • Tom

          July 23, 2022 at 9:51 am

          Total Bull shit reply from you corsin. Your ignorants runs amok. You are a empty vessel.

          Inflation was 1.4% when Biden assumed potus on behalf of dr rice, and obummer. This inflation is due to the $1.9 trillion spending bill the Dums jammed and Biden signed. Period!
          8% increase in 18 months.

          Biden, aoc and sanders hate carbon, gas and oil. This was purposefully executed.

          But don’t fret, as Dr Jill said, tacos for Hispanics. 29% approval in Florida, is death. 31% Quinnipiac Dem poll.

          You dummycrats got a ok’d fashioned ads kicking coming. Up to 40 house seats flip to GOP, 3 to 4 in Florida.
          6 senate seats. Gov wins bigly, Marco too, enjoy!

          Enjoy the shellacking as Obummer said!

          • Kenneth C Kovar

            July 23, 2022 at 3:10 pm

            Low popularity is not impeachable, just sayin! Your tired narrative is no longer working, people understand that the far right is wrecking the middle class at the expense of the 1%

          • Tom

            July 23, 2022 at 3:41 pm

            Are you mental kovar?
            What commie country you immigrate from? The Dums jammed a $1.9 trillion spending bill, inflation was 1.4%. What part of your socialist economics you don’t comprehend?
            You had the greatest job growth in the U S history under potus 45. Blue collar, middle class, and working class. Wages accelerated to top level in late in 19 and early 20, pre pandemic.
            Please, you guys love to F it all up and cry Repubs.
            Rising tide for all, 2.8% unemployment per Gov in Florida.

          • Tom

            July 23, 2022 at 4:06 pm

            Ofcoure it is kovar.
            Impeached Biden and Mereck Garland, for sure!
            Maybe incompetent Granholm too.
            How about Adan schiff, Raskin and Lofgren will be expelled from new Congress, with new Repub majority.
            Done!

            You are an idiot kovar. Inflation blew up from 1.4% to 10% due to Dem Dums. $1.9billion jammed spending bill in March of 21.

            You soros Manchurians are clueless.
            DeSantis saved Florida, even for liars like you kovar, corsin, Elliot and the others. Florida 2.8% unemployment!
            Thanks to Ron.

            America’s Governor the best!
            Chameleon, Fraud the worst!

          • Joe Corsin

            July 23, 2022 at 5:05 pm

            Tom…you don’t know your bung hole from your lips 🍩💋

        • Impeach Biden

          July 23, 2022 at 10:14 am

          Ah yes it’s never the Dem’s fault. Of course if this was going on during a Republican administration you would be screaming. Not to worry many of these grossly incompetent Dems will be voted out come November. Nancy will definitely give up the gavel and hopefully “crying” Schumer will no longer head the Senate.

          • Joe Corsin

            July 23, 2022 at 2:15 pm

            ^ Far right terrorist supporting sub-ape…

          • Impeach Biden

            July 23, 2022 at 2:37 pm

            Yes Corsin with another personal attack. Im just LMFAO as the butt whipping is headed your pansy ass way come November. Take that personal attack PB.

          • Tom

            July 24, 2022 at 5:55 am

            Corsin, you are the ass wipe.
            I will ensure that the Congress investigate you. All you hacks will be expelled. Cheney the wench defeated and Kinzinger will be gone.

            Schiff, Raskin, Lofgren will be expelled, and Pelosi retired, resigned.

            Corsin, get ready,

        • Kenneth C Kovar

          July 23, 2022 at 3:11 pm

          rinse and repeat but no longer, real change is coming!

      • Tjb

        July 23, 2022 at 11:53 am

        Just a reminder that our LAST President defunded public safety agencies that included law enforcement during his last year in office. Has Biden defunded the police?

        • Impeach Biden

          July 23, 2022 at 1:43 pm

          He certainly supported the reimagine part right? Let’s see what happens in West Hollywood with the non armed police ambassadors. This should go over very well with the criminal element.

    • Ed

      July 23, 2022 at 2:17 pm

      You forgot vote red for Fascism!

    • Jane

      July 23, 2022 at 6:23 pm

      Vote BLUE for the murder of innocent babies.
      Vote BLUE for padding of more democrats pockets.
      Vote BLUE for higher food and gas prices.
      Vote BLUE for less Christian values.
      Vote BLUE for defunding the police and higher crime rates.
      Vote BLUE for more illegals to be brought into our country.
      Vote BLUE for the destruction of our country.

      • Joe Corsin

        July 23, 2022 at 6:57 pm

        Murdering babies? What sort of stupidity is that? A baby is a person that has been born already. Also inflation wasn’t invented by the Dems… doesn’t happen just because one man gets out of a chair and another man sits down. Lastly, we saw your so called Christian values when you elected Trump…then again on January the 6th. Poop throwing sub-apes…nut jobs…need Baker Act.

      • marylou

        July 24, 2022 at 10:23 am

        Which of Christ’s values are you talking about? Please list them

  • Tom

    July 23, 2022 at 8:26 am

    Harris is incompetent, just like Joe corsin.
    Willie brown feel good girl, you know what I mean. Total affirmative action.
    Dan Quayle x 100, total ignorance.
    Just a disaster. America’s Gov defeats her easily. Joe Corsin is more ignorant than Harris.
    Biden Harris, dog food for everyone.
    DeSantis, rising tide for all.

    • Joe Corsin

      July 23, 2022 at 9:35 am

      ^ Needs Baker Act and deprogramming from far right propaganda.

      • Tom

        July 23, 2022 at 9:38 am

        Joe corsin, soros Manchurian boot licker!

        • Joe Corsin

          July 23, 2022 at 9:41 am

          ^ Conspiracy theorist maniac…brain wiped out on far right propaganda. Possible dangerous terrorist. Report to FBI!!!!

          • Ocean Joe

            July 23, 2022 at 9:46 am

            Joe, Tommy is OK. But he’s eating the cheaper dog food brands these days, needs to move up to Alpo.

          • Tom

            July 23, 2022 at 10:03 am

            LMAO ocean, if I’m ok under your liberal brand, I am great center right!
            Corsin, I am a Florida hurricane upon you and Elliott! I suffer Manchurians Dums gladly! I am the FP legend!
            I’ll make you run back to Manchuria.
            I amJust warning up!

            You can’t go toe to toe with me.
            I single handle brought FP back to the center. I challenge Joe H, and Peter S.
            DeSantis is America’s Gov.
            Harris was Willie browns girl!

          • Tom

            July 23, 2022 at 3:13 pm

            I shut your pathetic liberal tard ass up Joe. I conquer Manchurians such as you and Elliot happily and joyfully.
            Wah, Wah, and Wah. You gotta have elephant Kahones like America’s Governor. I’ll be holding court at Florida’s Repub. Summit, doing what I do. Providing strategy.

          • Tom

            July 23, 2022 at 4:08 pm

            Ocean you and your Manchurian nation eat soros’s manure! LMAO.

          • Jane

            July 23, 2022 at 6:25 pm

            Sounds like you need to go back to your basement and get back on your meds and try and deal with the hate in your heart. Your life is so pitiful that you try and bring that hate into other people’s lives so they can be miserable just like you. Bless your heart.

        • Kenneth C Kovar

          July 23, 2022 at 3:12 pm

          are you speaking English??

          • Tom

            July 23, 2022 at 3:26 pm

            What don’t you understand kovar?
            Are you a Dum tard to? What’s wrong with you soros tards?
            It’s as clear as day. I shut corsin up, you don’t really want any part of me kovar.

            I am the FP legend. Listen and learn, I am the must click conservative.
            America’s Governor, rising tide for all.
            2.8% unemployment due to America’s Gov. Not dog food for all like Biden Harris. Clown show.

          • Tom

            July 24, 2022 at 6:04 am

            Kiss my ass Jane. What are you another soros boot licker. I am the FP legend.

            If you read the eat alpo reference and the mentals corsin, kovar, elliott attacks you’d understand for change.

            I’ll get you hooked up with Meredith and Kamala for midnight pool girls.
            Enjoy.

    • tom palmer

      July 23, 2022 at 9:40 am

      You mean the rising tide of climate change that the GOP willfully ignores?
      Gas is below $4 a gallon in my neighborhood. btw, though you wouldn’t know listening to Republican propaganda as they root for the economy to crash..

      • Tom

        July 23, 2022 at 9:54 am

        We are in the recession Palmer!
        Are U kidding me!
        U r the jimmy Olsen of the reporters

      • Tom

        July 23, 2022 at 10:21 am

        Palmer, corsin, elliot, ocean and all Dem, Dum Soros Manchurians.

        The rising tide of 2.8% Florida unemployment, down from 3.0%.

        Florida is the economic Mecca example thanks to whiz kid Gov! America’s Gov! Biden’s disapproval in Florida is 2.9%, LMAO.

        Rising employment tide for all! Unlike Biden and Harris, dog food for all.
        LMAO

      • Impeach Boden

        July 23, 2022 at 2:05 pm

        It was $2.17 a gallon the day before the Biden and Kamala took over. No where near that number now.

        • Joe Corsin

          July 23, 2022 at 2:13 pm

          Because demand was nothing during the pandemic you imbecile…. that’s why gas was cheap. Not because of the Orange idiot Trump.

          • Impeach Biden

            July 23, 2022 at 2:39 pm

            I guess your pea size brain has forgotten about those Executive Orders and Biden’s comments about putting the petroleum companies out of business.

        • Kenneth C Kovar

          July 23, 2022 at 3:14 pm

          I’m pretty sure that you never deigned to take even Econ 101, ignorance is not bliss!!

      • Kenneth C Kovar

        July 23, 2022 at 3:35 pm

        Exactly, they do not care about working people and the middle class. Murdoch, the Kochs, the Trumps and their enablers in Congress are not going to personally lose that much by a crashing economy!

        • Tom

          July 24, 2022 at 7:57 am

          How much of an idiot are you kovar?
          Florida 2.8% unemployment rate, 7.8% wage growth, continued economic success. Florida is the example thanks to Gov Ron.

  • Don’t Look Up

    July 23, 2022 at 10:41 am

    Republicans are America’s problem in health related issues, sensible gun control, women’s health, voting rights and border control issues. They block common sense legislation to improve the lives of all Americans on these life saving issues.

    Take for example DeSantis’s “don’t say gay” idiotic bill! Ron DeSantis leads from behind with a non-caring attitude of the future ramifications of his actions. He’ll gloat when transgender children are targeted with bullying! Just yesterday, Florida’s largest school district in Dade county canceled middle and high school sex education classes because of government pressure. Florida is already missing 9000 teachers …. How many more will throw in the towel?

    There is ONLY ONE RESOLUTION……VOTE REPUBLICANS OUT OF OFFICE! REPUBLICANS ARE AMERICA’S PROBLEM.

  • Tjb

    July 23, 2022 at 11:20 am

    DeSantis is a man without a moral compass.

    • Impeach Biden

      July 23, 2022 at 11:30 am

      Biden and Harris are two fools with no brains. Give me DeSantis any day.

    • Tom

      July 23, 2022 at 12:01 pm

      Yeah right tjb, chameleon is the master immoral sellout!
      Pro life, pro choice! Democrat, Republican, Independent, the master whole, the chameleon.
      Save it, DeSantis is a Saint compared to the Dem trash. God bless him, Casey and kids.

    • Kenneth C Kovar

      July 23, 2022 at 3:18 pm

      truly, the far right is in thrall with Trump and want to emulate him at every turn! The only “Dem” like that is Manchin!

  • PeterH

    July 23, 2022 at 11:56 am

    Here’s the question for Florida voters:

    Is Ron DeSantis a Governor or just another sad Trump acolyte political hack?

    Gallop poll on “party affiliation”
    27% Republican
    27% Democrat
    43% Independent

    Join us at the Lincoln Project or any of the other six ‘never Trump’ organizations that are increasing in daily membership.

    Together, we can solve America’s gun problems, women’s health care, fake voting narratives, etc …..

    ……but we cannot work within the framework of today’s Republican Party. It’s time to remove Republicans from office.

    • Tom

      July 24, 2022 at 5:50 am

      Shut the hell up, Lincoln predator Org towel boy. Go towel off Wilson and Schmidt.

      Florida Repub. are now over 200,000 more in party registration. Due to Gov Ron.

      Governor Ron, the peoples Gov. 2.8% unemployment. Rising tide for all.

      • Joe Corsin

        July 24, 2022 at 7:35 am

        ^ Worships orange Hitler and mini Hitler. Possible dangerous terrorist. Report to FBI and DHS!!!!!!

  • Meredith

    July 23, 2022 at 12:34 pm

    Ron is a nasty little frat boy and his comments uphold that assessment everyday.

    • Tom

      July 23, 2022 at 12:41 pm

      Meredith the midnight Pool girl is back.
      Invite Kamala to the midnight pool run. Willie browns girl.

    • Impeach Biden

      July 23, 2022 at 1:32 pm

      Once again Florida Politics censure’s my pro DeSantis comments but allows Meredith to take a shot at DeSantis. The MSM at it again.

      • Joe Corsin

        July 23, 2022 at 4:10 pm

        @Impeach Biden: If they censor your comments it’s because you are disordered neo nazi troll… repugnant.

    • Kenneth C Kovar

      July 23, 2022 at 3:15 pm

      nasty frat boy, I like that!

  • Tom

    July 24, 2022 at 6:12 am

    America’s Governor, rising tide for all, not a few like Biden Harris.

    All the loser manchurians, soros boot lickers.
    LMAO.

    DeSantis saved Florida, even for wretches like yourselves. Corsin, Elliott, Meredith, tjb, ocean, don’t look, kovar, Jane, and other Manchurian soros peoples.

    • Joe Corsin

      July 24, 2022 at 7:38 am

      ^ Conspiracy theory lunatic, possible dangerous terrorist…needs Baker Act and inpatient psychiatric treatment. Far right propaganda has turned his brain into soup…has him de-evolving back into an ape.

    • Bill

      July 24, 2022 at 7:43 am

      Why would I vote for someone like desantis who clearly dislikes anyone who’s not a republican? You do get the bit where ignoring 2/3 of the electorate could backfire on him I assume? Rising tide? Nah … sinking ship.

      • Tom

        July 24, 2022 at 8:07 am

        Why wouldn’t you Bill ?
        How ignorant are you?
        Like Mental Joe Corsin.

        DeSantis saved Florida. Ignore 2/3? How stupid are you? Only 300,000 are not working. 2.8%. That’s real Bill,
        That’s not a corrupt blue state.
        Education tops in country, kids parents benefited. Vouchers for poor and minorities. Trade school opportunities for all in high school.
        Technology and engineering jobs galore.

        Hispanics and Independents love Gov Ron. The Manchurian bubble overwhelms you.

        Yes you idiot, rising tide for all thanks to Gov Ron. Not Tacos from Jill & Joe. Disgraceful.

        • Bill

          July 24, 2022 at 10:54 am

          The abject stupidity of your reply proves my point. Thanks for reminding me again why I won’t vote for him.

  • Tom

    July 24, 2022 at 11:48 am

    Yes Bill never allow facts, you moron liberal cake eater to ensure good judgement.

    Chameleon is good for 46%, period.
    Who cares who you vote for.

    Wah, Wah and wah!
    Success is obviously what matters to you.

    Florida’s has never been more prosperous. More successful, and growing with no limitations.
    Ahh your feelings hurt!

    DeSantis wins bigly. Biden’s approval is 29%, chameleon and fraud no chance.

    Hispanics and independents love America’s Gov. Rising tide for all.
    Not tacos like Joe and Jill.
    Wah baby Bill.

    • Joe Corsin

      July 24, 2022 at 6:45 pm

      ^ Looks like a middle school kid wrote this stupid post. This is the result of no government in Florida. Retarded children running around untreated.

      • Tom

        July 25, 2022 at 6:21 am

        Have a taco per Joe and Jill. Enjoy idiot corsin You are a flap jack, kicked your ass all previous days. Facts upset you.
        LMAO.

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