Ron DeSantis says ‘good chance’ Joe Biden dies before finishing second term
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'I mean, he's already passed normal life expectancy.'

Ron DeSantis says that it’s a matter of when, not if, the President dies. And “actuarial tables” tell him it will be soon.

During an interview on Outkick, the Florida Governor told Clay Travis he didn’t expect Joe Biden to live much longer.

“You have to look at what’s the average mortality rate in the United States. Biden will be 82. I mean, he’s already passed normal life expectancy,” DeSantis said. “So it’s not like that would be an unforeseen thing.”

The Governor, a 2024 presidential candidate, then suggested Biden’s candidacy was just a trojan horse for Vice President Kamala Harris to take over.

“I think the American people should know if you’re voting for Biden, you know, you are effectively voting for Harris to likely be the President of the United States over the next four years,” DeSantis said.

“There’s just a good chance that that happens, given those actuarial tables. And as bad as Biden’s been, I think a lot of people would view Kamala as even worse.”

As he did later in the interview, the Governor often suggests that Harris has served as “impeachment insurance.”

DeSantis, appearing on the Ingraham Angle in 2022, was asked how “formidable” Harris is as a standard-bearer for the Democratic Party, prompting a brutal answer from the Florida Governor.

“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.”

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


36 comments

  • PeterH

    July 26, 2023 at 12:05 pm

    DeSantis becomes more unhinged with every interview!

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  • ali

    July 26, 2023 at 12:13 pm

    Keep holding up that negative attitude. It puts you farther behind.

  • Joe

    July 26, 2023 at 12:16 pm

    Is this nasty little pipsqueak even capable of saying the right thing at any given moment? What a maroon and ahole this Casey’s lil guy is.

  • Tom

    July 26, 2023 at 1:39 pm

    Open mouth, insert foot and repeat. What a clown.

    • TJC

      July 26, 2023 at 4:56 pm

      He claims his prayer — no one else’s — stopped a hurricane from hitting Florida, and he claims to know what Christianity is really all about. And now he knows the future, who will die and who won’t die.
      He is sounding like he believes he is God’s Special Boy. And that’s pitiful in any man, dangerous in a Governor, a catastrophe in a President.

      • Dont Say FLA

        July 27, 2023 at 1:10 pm

        That’s right, folks. Rhonda prayed the hurricane away, yet he didn’t cancel evacuation orders and four Floridians died while trying to plywood their windows and get out for no reason at all. Why did Rhonda leave those folks to die?

  • Ron DeSantis is a flaming dumpster of a human

    July 26, 2023 at 2:05 pm

    What kind of person just says this out loud?

    • M. Mouse

      July 26, 2023 at 5:02 pm

      Why, it’s our Little Man of the Mansion, Governor D! He speaks his mind and shrinks! Kind of like Pinocchio in reverse! Squeak!

  • Peggy

    July 26, 2023 at 2:07 pm

    So President Kamala Harris?

    Sounds great to me! This is a wonderful endorsement from DeSantis.

    • M. Mouse

      July 26, 2023 at 5:07 pm

      That’s right! A lot of times he gets things done without even trying or knowing! Especially the knowing part! Squeak!

  • RonBeGone

    July 26, 2023 at 2:26 pm

    Oh Ron, the only thing circling the drain around here is your campaign.

  • My Take

    July 26, 2023 at 2:38 pm

    A black woman president!
    MAGA would meĺt!

    • David Desilva

      July 26, 2023 at 3:00 pm

      It will be glorious!

      • Mark

        July 28, 2023 at 1:03 am

        Counting the number of minutes before she would throw a shoe at Miss Lindsey and walk down and put an azz whoopin on Marge and Bobo (The Howler Monkey Twins) in her first State of the Union Address

  • Igary salters

    July 26, 2023 at 2:54 pm

    WOW HOW CAN SOMEONE WHO CLAIM TO BE A REAL AMERICAN WANT THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES TO DIE I AM A DEOMCRAT I SERVED IN THE US ARMY AND I WILL NEVER WISH FOR THE PRESIDENTOF THE UNITED STATES DIE IN OFFICE I KNOW ONLY A MAGA RACIST WHITE MAN BY THE NAME OF RON DESANTIS WILL SAY THIS BECAUSE HE WANT TO BE A DICTATOR LIKE LIKE TRUMP AND PUTIN

  • Igary salters

    July 26, 2023 at 2:56 pm

    TRYING TO SCARE AMERICANS FROM VOTING FOR BIDEN BY SAYING KAMALA HARRIS THE VICE PRESIDENT WILL BECOME PRESIDENT THIS IS ALL ABOUT HIM BEING A RACIST

    • Jimmy

      July 26, 2023 at 2:59 pm

      100%. The man just can’t hide his racism for a second.

    • Ocean Joe

      July 26, 2023 at 7:21 pm

      Bingo!

  • Bwj

    July 26, 2023 at 3:26 pm

    A rather disgusting comment by DeSantis, but then that means Trump is likely to die in office. DESANTIS should reconsider being Trump’s VP.

  • My Take

    July 26, 2023 at 3:32 pm

    Everything DeSSgustus does is reflexively aimed at his dumb racist redneck base.
    But he and Trump already have them!
    There are no new votes to get there.

  • Silly Wabbit

    July 26, 2023 at 4:47 pm

    He kwazy.

  • Tjb

    July 26, 2023 at 4:57 pm

    Talking about chances… the chances that your campaign to be President in 2024 is now ZER0, the same as your personality.

  • tom palmer

    July 26, 2023 at 5:34 pm

    I saw a bumper sticker the other day with a Yellowstone reference that advocated assassinating the President. I guess that is where ,Dr. DeSantiis’ fantasy lies.

    • My Take

      July 27, 2023 at 1:27 am

      Years ago l Isaw a bumper sticker in Ft. Lauderdale that said COYOTE.
      I later looked it up.
      The national prostitutes’ union!

  • Dyane Balcom

    July 26, 2023 at 10:14 pm

    That is the nastiest thing to say about anybody who would vote for. a man like that I wouldn’t and I hope a lot of others won’t he is very racist keep that too yourself suppose someone said that about him when he was in that car accident remember Karma

  • Michael K

    July 27, 2023 at 4:13 am

    When you are trying to peel off a slice of the ultra hardcore radical right-wing MAGA hats, there is no bottom to the depravity, ignorance, racism and bigotry used to scoop up a handful of votes. Sadly, in his desperation, Ron is scraping the bottom of the barrel. There’s very little room left for basic human decency and compassion and no moral compass.

  • Everybody Dies

    July 27, 2023 at 1:15 pm

    Everybody dies. That’s why I would never wish death upon Rhonda or anyone else. It’s a waste of a wish. Some folks might die on a San Francisco sidewalk. Others might die caught in razor wire underwater in the Rio Grande. Regardless of where they do it, everybody dies. “Actuarial tables” tell me Rhonda, too, will die. Rhonda is such a dip stick.

  • Ingrid 1213

    July 27, 2023 at 2:38 pm

    I applaud everyone for their comments. As evil cannot sustain but must implode. Good will always overcome evil no matter how long it takes. Pray to our Holy Father to keep the evil one away. Amen.

  • woke all up right now

    July 27, 2023 at 3:03 pm

    Rona DeSatan hit a new low with his reported remarks, for sure. Sounds like Rona is trying to become an insurance expert. If so, he should consider the odds of major tropical cyclones hitting Florida’s overdeveloped coastal areas and floodplain developments. Once he studies those odds, maybe he’ll figure out why legitimate insurers are abandoning the Florida market and we are all stuck with a government owned insurance company called “Citizens.”

  • My Take

    July 27, 2023 at 5:46 pm

    When you announce your intentions to ddestroy the FBI and DOJ and military brass, I would guess you own actuarial table gets shifted a bit.

  • LEE ROLLER

    July 27, 2023 at 10:33 pm

    Joe could be dead for six months and he still wouldn’t be as stiff as Ron DeCeiveus.

  • Ron's Already Dead Inside

    July 28, 2023 at 7:44 am

    I’ll take a Joe Biden who might die in office any day over the already dead inside Ron DeSantis.

    DeSantis will never be more than three fifths of the way to POTUS.

    And, oh, he’s already there. Ron DeSantis is a legitimate POS.

  • Betsy

    August 4, 2023 at 3:35 pm

    There are such idiots on here committing! Have to be dumb democrats voters ! How do you like high prices on food, gas, diesel and everything else dodo birds! Biden is a idiot & getting his orders from some else ! Also I hope the illegals take all your jobs away from you & maybe then you will realize Biden is worse president ever! Right now the Florida Governor looks good at least he has balls !

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