Ron DeSantis says ‘institutional advantages’ will help him communicate as POTUS

Desantis AP campaign
'If you just stand up there and forthrightly speak the truth right now in this day and age, it's powerful.'

Florida’s Governor says he won’t have a problem communicating with people if he becomes the next American President.

During a Never Back Down event on Friday in Oskaloosa, Iowa, Ron DeSantis said he could rely on “institutional advantages” to help him overcome a hostile media.

“So look at the end of the day, you’ve just got to go out and speak to folks directly and, you know, as President, you have a lot of institutional advantages with that. Similar to me being Governor, like it’s a state thing. So it doesn’t permeate nationally as much,” DeSantis said.

“But as Governor I show up, I do something somewhere they can editorialize negatively all they want. But when people see it from the horse’s mouth, they either like it or they don’t and they like what we do. So they support us. And I think it’s the same thing,” DeSantis said.

Indeed, opinion polling has shown DeSantis around 55% approval for the first half of 2023 in Florida, even though he’s been messaging in the state sporadically since the end of the Legislative Session, focusing instead on the presidential race.

“I think when you have all the nonsense that gets spewed in our society, online media, all this stuff, the negative can kind of crowd out or mask what’s true. But the positive of that is that people know they’re being lied to. They know these are phony narratives, they know how the game is played,” DeSantis added. “So if you just stand up there and forthrightly speak the truth right now in this day and age, it’s powerful. People want to hear it.”

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


15 comments

  • Andrew

    July 29, 2023 at 12:07 pm

    Great statement Ron, you still can’t communicate with people, and the Constitution states, ‘of the people, for the people, and by the people’ which reflects in your polling numbers! Oh, you can communicate as long as like your puppet legislature they listen and follow, don’t think, don’t debate, and obey!

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  • PeterH

    July 29, 2023 at 12:23 pm

    DeSantis would not find a submissive legislative body in Washington to push through his deplorable agenda!

    Republicans are America’s biggest problem!

    Vote all Republicans out of office!

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  • Dont Say FLA

    July 29, 2023 at 12:39 pm

    Ron likes the truth?

    Ron says Biden is senile, inept, can hardly read the teleprompter and is fixing to die.

    Ron says Kamala would become President if/when Biden died, and she is entirely unqualified to do anything but chirp.

    If both Biden and Kamala entirely unqualified, what difference does it make which one is President? Since it’s not senile Biden in control, it’s apparently Biden’s administration that prop Biden up to be successful.

    That same administration would also prop up Harris, so what would be the difference at all if Harris replaces Biden as President, Ron?

    What would be the difference? Trade one inept person for another inept person, the string pullers are still pulling the strings.

    So the truth is this: If Biden and Harris are interchangeably inept, and if voters like the Biden administration’s results, they’d also like a Harris administration’s results because it would be exactly the same administration but with “chirping” rather than stuttering.

    Ron should keep their mouth shut, because when it’s open, all the inner turmoil and self-contradictions come out.

    LOL @ Rhonda talking about “truth”

  • All Ron Wanted Was a Pepsi

    July 29, 2023 at 12:58 pm

    Ron being institutionalized seems like the first good idea I’ve heard out of him. Have to admit I am shocked by Ron confessing that he should be institutionalized. Maybe he is going for the sympathy vote like they did with CaCa CaCa Casey’s cancer sympathy votes that helped land the little Chia Pet in Florida’s Office of the Governor.

    • Margaret Chrisawn

      July 31, 2023 at 3:46 pm

      C’mon now. Ms. TackyJackieNo had a refill of Botox in time for the campaign and made up the cancer schtick so that they could politicize it. Or at least that’s what some of the leftwing conspiracy theorists say.

      In light of the way they both used their toddlers as Trump political pawns in TV ads, I wouldn’t be surprised at how low these two awful people would go to win.

  • My Take

    July 29, 2023 at 3:52 pm

    He certainly needs help in communicating.

    Like, you know, stuff.

  • TJC

    July 29, 2023 at 3:55 pm

    Interesting straw Ron is grasping here: just make me President and I will suddenly be able to communicate better. Trust me, he’s saying, I’m better than I seem to be. Just give me the most powerful position on the planet, and I’ll be able to utter whole sentences without changing topic, tense, and/or point of view, and without repeating vapid cliches and machine-gunning my ever-present “you know.”
    Sure, Ron. We believe you.

    • My Take

      July 29, 2023 at 4:27 pm

      High-school English teachers should have students as homework search for such problems in DeSSantis’s statements. Add subjunctive in the search, and “is” with plural subjects (not being considered collectively).
      Yale and Harvard must cringe.

      • M. Mouse

        July 29, 2023 at 10:17 pm

        That’s our little man, so cute the way he talks!
        Squeak!

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    July 29, 2023 at 3:57 pm

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    July 30, 2023 at 6:11 am

    As if!? Hush liar Desantis

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