Ron DeSantis needles Joe Biden about ‘granddaughter in Arkansas’

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'Why don’t you pay more attention to your granddaughter In Arkansas?'

Ron DeSantis is rolling out new attacks on President Joe Biden during his second day in Iowa this week.

In remarks at a Pizza Ranch in Winterset, the Republican Presidential candidate lampooned the President’s family situation, according to a reporter on hand for the meet and greet.

The Governor got what Wall Street Journal reporter John McCormick called “laughter and applause” for the question “Why don’t you pay more attention to your granddaughter In Arkansas?”

The Governor’s reference was to a child fathered by Hunter Biden out of wedlock, which rose into the public consciousness last month as Biden the Younger reached revised child support terms with the child’s mother, as reported by the Associated Press.

Like many Republicans, DeSantis has made Hunter Biden a recurrent refrain to his remarks, including earlier this week when he suggested the President’s son may be responsible for an illegal substance found in the White House.

“But was it Hunter’s? Does everyone think it’s Hunter’s cocaine? Whose cocaine was it?”

DeSantis has also zeroed in on Hunter Biden’s laptop recently, blaming former President Donald Trump for the story being downplayed during his unsuccessful 2020 campaign.

“I look back at the Hunter Biden censorship, which was a huge, huge deal to happen in the 2020 election, and yet those were Donald Trump’s own agencies that were colluding with Big Tech. I would never allow that to happen. I would fire those people immediately,” DeSantis said on Fox News’s “Sunday Morning Futures.”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. He writes for the New York Post and National Review also, with previous work in the American Conservative and Washington Times and a 15+ year run as a columnist in Folio Weekly. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


17 comments

  • Dont Say FLA

    July 15, 2023 at 10:58 am

    Rhonda’s coming for Hunter’s children? No ways! People say, “Every accusation from a Magga is actually a confession.” I am getting more and more convinced it’s true.

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  • DeSantis has taking a page out of the Nazi playbook

    July 15, 2023 at 11:10 am

    does that mean we can start going after Casey for her failure to raise her children without bigotry? I mean come on man the guy can he’s so far behind in the polls he’ll never catch up.

  • Christian In Every Way

    July 15, 2023 at 11:45 am

    Christian

  • Ocean Joe

    July 15, 2023 at 12:31 pm

    Look, he’s never going to offer any serious policy for governing, Reps havent done that since before Reagan, so he might as well go personal.

    Reagan, ran on tearing down “gubmint” and that’s all they’ve got. Oppose any program to help people who need help, overload the military, undercut revenues with big tax cuts, push guns, cry about fentanyl and the border, and oppose any measure on climate to protect the fossil fuel industry.

    All Ron adds to this is culture attacks to satisfy the evangelicals, who are already free to worship as they like so long as they respect the separation of church and state and stop trying to nationalize their religious views.

    These folks including the a-hole in the capitol with the bullhorn shouting “protect the constitution” on Jan 6, ought to read the establishment clause, and the 14th amendment on birthright citizenship instead of perverting a well written but not infallible document.

    • Dont Say FLA

      July 15, 2023 at 1:26 pm

      Except now the GOP is even breaking the military. Thomas Tuberville of Alabama is hellbent on destroying the military over his personal objection to safe and legal abortion.

      While I can’t argue that we have far too much military, I’m not sure i want to see the results of what Tuberville’s doing, because the result is always political opportunism which, in this case, would make Democrats the party of big military. Ugh.

      • My Take

        July 15, 2023 at 6:37 pm

        Tuberville — Alabama, football, Republican.
        Hard to climb out of that mental cesspool.
        He probably golfs . . . and used to drink Bud Light.

  • Jesus H. Christ

    July 15, 2023 at 12:32 pm

    There is nothing Christian about Ron DeSantis.

    • Rhondas an Xian

      July 15, 2023 at 1:28 pm

      Rhonda is very Christian, just like his Moms For Liberty. Problem is most Christians, at least here in USA, are not even slightly Christ-like in their beliefs or actions. (Not *all* Christians)

      • My Take

        July 15, 2023 at 6:31 pm

        Maybe they are alt*Christians.
        They are certainly fake Christians.

      • Me

        July 15, 2023 at 8:34 pm

        Christianity is NOT religion it’s a relationship with GOD. So please don’t lump your statistics together as one. Ignorant on your part. Shame on you. Maybe you might try getting to know him. Might help you out before you babble.

    • Susan

      July 15, 2023 at 7:19 pm

      Agreed!

  • PeterH

    July 15, 2023 at 1:33 pm

    Children are once again DeSantis’s target.

    Well now …… that seems to open a new door.

  • Thomas Kaspar

    July 15, 2023 at 5:41 pm

    President Biden’s granddaughter who doesn’t get a Christmas stocking representation at the Whitehouse got one of Hunters garbage paintings in the settlement . Why wouldn’t you report that ?

  • Earl Pitts "Mayor of Realville" American

    July 15, 2023 at 6:58 pm

    Good evening America,
    How many times do y’all think #unter had $€X with the child?
    Thank you America,
    Earl Pitts “Mayor of Realville” American

  • Harv Weinstein

    July 15, 2023 at 7:36 pm

    Earl we are just a few steps from legalized pedo out here in Cally. If the Dems can keep power pedo will be the norm nationwide. What do you think we really are grooming for?
    Harvey

  • Suze

    July 16, 2023 at 4:51 am

    So Rhonda. Are u and kkkasey running against a president that has been more successful than any gop president in the past 30 years or you just want to run against his son who doesn’t even hold public office. When you have no policies other than hate gop always resorts to smears. Name calling and unfounded accusations. U r worse than orange insurrectionist. You too have no moral compass.

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