Joe Biden campaign expects Ron DeSantis, others to follow ‘MAGA blueprint’ at GOP debate

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Trump won't debate. But a Biden spox says the 45th President's agenda will be on stage anyway.

The Joe Biden campaign doesn’t expect Donald Trump to be at the Republican presidential debate Wednesday. However, they do expect candidates, including Ron DeSantis, to follow a “MAGA blueprint worthy of the former President.

Michael Tyler, the Biden-Harris 2024 Communications Director, expects the “most extreme slate of presidential candidates in history … will fight to out-MAGA each other.”

“The 2024 Republicans are focusing on litigating the benefits of slavery, which books they want to ban from schools, and a made-up war on “woke” that they themselves can’t even define. That’s a race for the MAGA base, not a pathway to winning a general election in 2024,” Tyler writes, with seeming allusions to Democratic reads on the DeSantis agenda.

The namechecks come later in the memo, such as this section on senior citizen entitlements.

“DeSantis, Tim Scott, Nikki Haley, Vivek Ramaswamy, and Chris Christie all have supported putting Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block,” the campaign spox says.

Meanwhile, when it comes to cost of living, the Governor is in a league of his own.

“Florida has become an inflation hotspot under Ron DeSantis,” Tyler writes.

Similarly, he claims that DeSantis and other candidates have “vowed to support a national abortion ban.”

As well, Tyler asserts that DeSantis “signed legislation in Florida that could make it easier for criminals to carry weapons and supports concealed carry of firearms nationwide,” referring to the permitless carry bill that passed this year.

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


5 comments

  • Dont Say FLA

    August 19, 2023 at 4:11 pm

    Why even have this debate? It’s just silly and pointless without the guy that matters, but he got better shit to do.

    • Earl Pitts "The Ronald's UnOfficial Campaign Manager" American

      August 19, 2023 at 6:43 pm

      Your correct beloved offspring,
      Trump has made a serious miscalucation to his success in 2024 by blowing off the Republican debates.
      And now, as you correctly predicted, there will be close to zero My Pillows 2.0, My Slippers, or Giza Dream Sheets sold during the debate. Nobody is going to see those “old folks medicine” advertizements, nobody is going to buy ED Meds, be convinced to put their entire IRA into Gold, buy those emergency food supplies, buy Penn Life burrial insurance, Govornor Huckabee will be hawking his “Relaxium Sleeping Pills” to the oldsters but because Trump’s not there nobody will be watching.
      Such a waste
      And no “oldsters” even know how to go on Twitter or Rumble or whatever looser Trump calls his platform.
      The debates are going to be a total flop.
      Thanks again my politically savy Princess of my heart,
      Dad

  • Sped & DeSantis Collection Bureau

    August 19, 2023 at 4:35 pm

    Poor Ron, he’ll be at some Key Biscayne real estate law firm soon, running title searches on repossessed boats.

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  • My Take

    August 20, 2023 at 9:59 am

    Will the Listless even listen now?

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