A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis is resetting his campaign again, but that doesn’t mean he’s breaking away from the classics.
During a live transmission of the Ruthless Podcast on Thursday, DeSantis returned to his contention that Florida is “the Iowa of the South.”
“I came here like six months ago, we did an event. I wasn’t running, but we did an event together and someone did a thing saying because they noticed, like, I’m talking about things Florida is doing and they noticed what Iowa is doing.They’re getting all these great successes. So they said Iowa may be the Florida of the North. And I’m like, well, then I started looking at what they’re doing and I’m like, you know, maybe Florida is the Iowa of the south.”
This has been one of the most durable DeSantis images in Iowa, though sometimes phrased as the “Iowa of the Southeast.” He used the phrasing multiple times in his May trip to the state. He has also called Florida the “Utah of the Southeast.”
The Governor and First Lady Casey DeSantis were full of praise for Iowa’s people Thursday.
“The people in Iowa are so nice. Normally, if I want to hang out with people from the Midwest, I just go to Fort Myers in January, the Midwest is down there. But to be able to go into all these different communities and a lot of these counties, very rural, the warmth with which the Iowans greet you. It really does, you know, give you, give you some optimism about Americans and kind of human nature and all this stuff,” Gov. DeSantis said.
The First Couple discussed being “gas station connoisseurs” also, and noted Iowa, like Florida, has facilities worth planning a trip around.
“Because when you travel around Florida, it’s a big state. You need to find one place where you can get gas when you’re campaigning, gas, food, all this stuff. And so we’re very picky about these service stations,” the Governor related, going on to extol two brands from outside the state.
“So we have a lot of Wawa in Florida, which is Philly-based. And then we now have two Buc-ee’s, which are Texas based,” DeSantis said. “You guys should try that.”
“Then we started coming to Iowa. We got the Casey’s and we’re very excited that it does what we need it. And so we’re big fans of Casey’s,” the Governor said.
“We are gas station connoisseurs,” the First Lady added. “I don’t know what that says about us.”
12 comments
Dont Say FLA
August 10, 2023 at 9:39 pm
Rhonda, I’m telling you I’m telling you, Iowa is in the MIDWEST. Not the north. Again. Do I need to write that on a ball for you?
And the other thing i told you, Rhonda, was that you needed to reboot the rebooter ’cause it wasn’t working. Clearly you did not listen to that either.
Tom
August 11, 2023 at 8:04 am
We are definitely south of the Manson / Nixon line and Iowa is definitely in the midwest and I guess they don’t teach geography in Yarvard or Hale. Watching him run is like a bad netflix series that you can’t quite stop binge watching.
Michael K
August 10, 2023 at 9:56 pm
Casey here’s what says about you: You and Ronda are both gas bags, not gas “connoisseurs.”
Margaret Chrisawn
August 10, 2023 at 10:04 pm
Casey, in particular, is TackyTrailerTrash, so of course a big old gas station with a convenience store and multiple pumps is so very “uptown” for her. Perhaps she even wears that caped dress with white gloves, pretending to be Jackie O. There you go–TackyO at BusyBee or Buc-ee’s.
Kax
August 10, 2023 at 10:43 pm
Her name is Jill. She only identifies as Casey, but since her parents never signed her permission slip we have to call her Jill now.
My Take
August 10, 2023 at 10:29 pm
A bit to my surprise, I just realized I know almost nothing about Iowa. Decades have gone by without randomly èncountering any notable informàtion (save its having cold caucuses) or need to look anything up.
Not just a flyover state, a gloss over state.
PeterH
August 11, 2023 at 12:03 am
The reboot is magical thinking! There is no reboot ….. it’s just a continuation of the DeSantis grift!
My Take
August 11, 2023 at 9:08 am
I can kind of see that even with obvious failure ìn his campaign that DeSSantos would hang on.
Trump’s troubles are sure increasing.
Even a bit from the GOP.
Now many of us pray for prison, but even a lot less might eliminate Mr. #1.
My Take
August 11, 2023 at 9:40 am
Come On Fanni.
Lasso that loser.
Hogtie that hatemonger.
Send that swine to the stockyards.
Theñ into the chute . . .
University of North Florida
August 11, 2023 at 11:03 am
So corny!!
Silly Wabbit
August 11, 2023 at 11:40 am
He kwazy.
Tjb
August 11, 2023 at 2:46 pm
Ron messaging is becoming boring and redundant. He is becoming a patronizing fool. The folks in Iowa should be running Ron out of the state for calling them northerns.
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