Pride flag protester removed from Ron DeSantis event

DeSantis Pride Never Back Down
Moms for Liberty and security handled a young protester who dared to bring Pride flag into DeSantis event.

Ron DeSantis returned to the Palmetto State, where he was greeted by protesters for a second time.

DeSantis spoke in Tega Cay, in the Charlotte, North Carolina, media market, and led off his remarks with a denunciation of President Joe Biden when people in the front of the crowd began to unfurl Pride flags.

“Have you heard Biden? He will say when it comes to children, they’re not your children. They’re all of our children,” DeSantis said, as Moms for Liberty members tried to yank the flag from the hands of one of the young people holding it.

“First of all, as a dad of a 6-, a 5- and a 3-year-old … they’re not his children. I can tell you that. But when he’s sitting here talking about all of our children, I have something to say to him. Why don’t you focus on spending more time with your granddaughter in Arkansas or at least acknowledge she exists before you worry about our children,” DeSantis added.

While he was talking, a cadre of men in dark jackets approached the kid with the rainbow flag, preceding his swift departure from the room, which finally earned a direct address from DeSantis.

“And they shouldn’t be worrying about our children either. We don’t want you indoctrinating our children. Leave our kids alone,” DeSantis said, getting cheers throughout the room.

A similar instance happened last month as well.

When the Governor and presidential candidate was explaining his educational agenda, he was interrupted by someone from the crowd, who called him a “f****** fascist” and briefly derailed a rote speech in Lexington.

“Unfortunately, there’s bad stuff that’s getting into the schools, there’s pornography that’s getting into the schools. So the parents have had to blow the whistle in Florida,” DeSantis said, before someone issued a counterpoint from the back of the room to jeers from the audience.

DeSantis continued from there.

“We’re not going to let you impose an agenda on our kids,” the Governor said. “We’re going to stand up for our kids. We’re going to make sure to do it right. That’s what we’re going to do, yeah!”

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


17 comments

  • Alison

    July 17, 2023 at 6:02 pm

    You are so fake that reading your words you could hear the fakeness God man you know you’re a real joke. Governor DeSantis is a real joke. He is half man. He’s not a real man. He’s definitely half a man. I’m sorry he’s little but that doesn’t make him half the man half the man is who he is for who he is.

    • My Take

      July 17, 2023 at 6:16 pm

      0.5He is a petty little bully punk.
      In no way, shape, or form a leader for a democracy.

    • Earl Pitts "Political Relocation Advisor" American

      July 19, 2023 at 7:52 am

      Goid mornting Alison,
      God may still be a little whizzed that your people stole his holy sign to Noah, the rainbow, and put it on a flag as a blastphimous earthly symbol of peversion and child abuse.
      Removing that flag from the gathering of inocent conservatives was necessary to prevent unintended consiquences in the form of collatteral death and injury from a thunderbolt cast down from Heaven in anger.
      The rainbow flag had to be removed as a public safety measure.
      I’m sure you understand now.
      Have a nice day,
      Earl Pitts “Thelogical Scholar” American

      • FloridasFinest

        July 19, 2023 at 9:03 am

        Earl I read every post on this artical and taking into account world wide religous differences your post makes more sense than any other reply. The other responders seem to live in an alternative lockstep political world and
        their understanding of reality seems to be defective.
        Now Earl its not that I feel you are real smart its just that the other posters are so so stupid. Most of them likely were ruined by what they were exposed to in America’s public schools in the last 20 years or so.
        FF

  • Go Woke or Go Broke

    July 17, 2023 at 6:33 pm

    His campaign is a train wreck and his approval rating in Florida is officially underwater.

    See what happens when you ignore real issues and instead focus on nonsensical 🐂💩 like “Wokeness”?

  • Dont Say FLA

    July 17, 2023 at 7:27 pm

    Rhonda, nobody wants your rotten little ice hole children, just like nobody want Casey or you. You can dream all you want, but nobody wants any of you.

  • Confederate Battle Flag

    July 17, 2023 at 7:29 pm

    The Rhonda Campaign ejects rainbow flag wavers yet welcomes with wide open arms any and all folks waving the confederate (loser) battle flag.

    LOL @ Confederate Battle Flag Loving Rhonda, ya sicko

  • Bwj

    July 17, 2023 at 7:42 pm

    American fascism. Mom’s for Liberty, yeah right.

  • SteveHC

    July 18, 2023 at 1:04 am

    So clearly it is only DESANTIS’s “agenda” that can be “imposed” upon all children regardless of what their ACTUAL parents want for their own children… I cannot think of anyone more hypocritical than this fascist megalomaniac. At one time I thought it to be a gross exaggeration to say it but it sure does seem to me that DeSantis is indeed a modern-day Hitler and I see just slight differences between his supporters and those Germans who supported Hitler and his rise to power. Granted he’s not calling for Jews to be removed from society but rather members of the LGBTQ+ community instead, not demanding that all women be required to give birth to just some imagined “superior” Aryan race but pretty much ANY race provided that they be American cirizens or at least legal immigrants, AND that the required births be raised and “educated” (i.e. indoctrinated) in the manner prescribed by this Floridian Fueher and his personally approved if not hand-picked appointees.

    • SteveHC

      July 18, 2023 at 1:10 am

      – The guy’s even managed to assemble his own small but (thanks to his sycophant legislature) growing army of brown-shirts… FAR too many “similarities” to just be “coincidental,” yes?

      • My Take

        July 18, 2023 at 11:07 am

        Others keep seeing parallels.
        A few days ago in a news article I saw the term Herrenvolk used, but unexplained.
        German, roughly for “master race.”

  • Good Guy Rhonda

    July 18, 2023 at 7:22 am

    You come for our children, we are going to have a problem. Unless you come bearing arms per the 2A, in which case please let me carry some of those magazines for ya. Those things add up quick to a lot of weight!

  • My Take

    July 18, 2023 at 10:59 am

    Roehm DeSAntis
    He should start wearing a Sam Browne.

    • My Take

      July 18, 2023 at 11:02 am

      Regarding his new stormtroopers.

  • Clint

    July 18, 2023 at 1:08 pm

    Ron’s entire agenda rests solely on attacking marginalized communities just like Hitler did. America will never elect such a hateful extremist. No matter how much the media claims his equally awful wife is the next Jackie O.

  • Questioning leadership

    July 18, 2023 at 4:24 pm

    I know you meant Tacky O

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