A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis continues to plead the case of people in the Golden State who claim to have been attacked by muggers.
“I met six or seven people just last week out there who had reported being mugged in the last year in southern California. Forget about San Francisco and some of the places in Northern California,” he said.
The Governor made the comments at an event in Spartanburg, South Carolina, which was hosted by his Never Back Down super PAC. They weren’t the first time DeSantis advanced the dread specter of California muggers though.
During remarks in Long Beach, California, Ron DeSantis depicted a public safety crisis in the Golden State, saying Californians are leery of wearing jewels while shopping because they could get stolen.
“Just being in southern California over these last few days, my wife and I have run into four or five people that reported that they’ve been mugged in the last year in different parts of Southern California,” DeSantis said.
“When people are telling me that when they go shopping, they take off their jewelry because they don’t want to get mugged, even in nice places in L.A., that’s a huge, huge problem,” DeSantis added.
The Governor has the mugging story in heavy rotation. He also worked it in during the Republican presidential debate, when he said he and the First Lady and he had “met three people, people who have been mugged on the street and that would have never happened 10 or 20 years ago.”
It remains to be seen if DeSantis will meet more mugging victims in future trips to the state, but the anecdotes track with the Governor’s dystopian depictions of a Golden State gripped by street crime.
6 comments
Thomas Kaspar
October 4, 2023 at 11:08 am
Paid Limp Leftwing Anti-DeSantis Spam .
Rick Whitaker
October 4, 2023 at 12:18 pm
so you are implying that if anything is negative about desantis it’s either paid, limp ( whatever that means ), leftwing, or spam. i could say the exact same things about negative biden statements by switching leftwing with rightwing. blaming others is a maga cult thing and you just showed your colors. trump is famous for making up fictitious stories with made up people never giving any names. since desantis is copying trump, in many ways, MAYBE he is doing the same. i have a mugging story that happened to me in st. petersburg, and it is true . i’m also using my name. i’m not telling the story to bash florida, but desantis is clearly bashing california to gain political points. everyone i know realizes exactly what he’s doing. he’s just a weak man and that is why he gets further behind every day. he is too phoney and negative for most people. the same reasons that ted cruz has the reputation for being the most hated man in the senate. you keep watching what that style does for desantis as he drops like a rock. i found the article to be just informative, but you found it to be negative. maga cult people can’t handle the truth. watch your health, being that negative is unhealthy.
MH/Duuuval
October 4, 2023 at 1:12 pm
I prefer to be mugged in CA than to be hit with a stray bullet in Florida.
PeterH
October 4, 2023 at 1:28 pm
Did Ron DeSantis fly the victims economy or business class?
MH/Duuuval
October 4, 2023 at 9:19 pm
His friends have planes they want him to use — like Clarence Thomas, et al.
Ron DeSantis wears High Heels
October 4, 2023 at 1:56 pm
Nobody has ever been mugged in Florida?
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