A.G. Gancarski
Ron DeSantis is telling Iowans that Florida Republicans who didn’t support him in the 2018 gubernatorial Primary regret it, by way of making his closing case in the Hawkeye State ahead of the Jan. 15 Republican caucuses.
The 2024 presidential candidate claims those who backed Adam Putnam are saying it’s the “worst vote” they ever cast.
“I can tell you in Florida, I’ll have people come up to me and I have two different things. One will say ‘Yes, you know, I voted for you in 2018. I had no idea you were going to do this good. That’s the best vote I’ve ever cast.’ And then I have some other people who said, ‘You know, I didn’t vote for you in the Primary in 2018. That’s the worst vote I ever took. I should (have), I wish I would have voted for you in there,’ and that’s what it will be,” DeSantis said in Marion, Iowa.
DeSantis, who was in his third term as a Congressman from Northeast Florida, launched his campaign roughly six years ago after having brokered an endorsement from President Donald Trump. At that time, Agriculture Commissioner Putnam was nearing the end of his second term, and was seen as the front-runner before Trump’s endorsement gave DeSantis momentum.
Trump has talked about the endorsement on many occasions since. He noted Putnam told him the endorsement was “like a nuclear weapon went off.”
“We gave up, we didn’t spend our money, it was over,” Trump quoted Putnam as saying.
“I don’t want to brag about it, but man do I have a good record of endorsements,” Trump said at a West Virginia rally in 2018. “In Florida, we have a great candidate, his name is Ron DeSantis, and he called me and asked whether or not I could endorse him.”
“I said, ‘Let me check it out,’” Trump said he told DeSantis. “This was a few months ago. He was at three, and I gave him a nice shot and a nice little tweet — bing bing — and he went from three to like 20-something.”
20 comments
tom palmer
December 28, 2023 at 8:27 pm
yeah, right. Putnam would have been a better governor.
MH/Duuuval
December 28, 2023 at 9:51 pm
Putnam’s friends were local millionaires, not jet-setters and billionaires, like Dee. For the voters it was a buckdancer’s choice. Looking back, Gwen Graham would have been a stronger candidate than Gillum, and might have beaten either Dee or Adam.
You’re 💯% right!
December 28, 2023 at 11:41 pm
Definitely
Earl Pitts "Sage Expert on Everything" American
December 29, 2023 at 8:34 am
Good morn ‘Ting America,
A lot of people dont know this but I, Earl Pitts American, saved many lives and family relationships of those regretfull “Opie Putman Voters”.
Soon after the election the regretfull “Opie” voters reached out to me to enter my “Opie Deprograming Salvation Program”. I am pleased to report a 100% recovery rate of my paitents. And they all See The Sage Light Of Reality now and are 100% voting DeSantis.
Thank you America
Doctor Earl Pitts American
Desantis is a fascist
December 29, 2023 at 5:14 am
This is very true. Desantis is one of the worst governors in history
Joe
December 29, 2023 at 1:17 pm
When you are the worst president you get beat by a mushroom. Why was it that DeSantis beat back a mushroom by ~20 points.
MH/Duuuval
December 30, 2023 at 1:54 pm
Voter intimidation played a big role in Dee’s margin. Think about it: A half-dozen cops show up at 3 AM to serve a warrant on a Black female senior citizen, an errant former felon who voted. Message received, if you are a minority.
Harold Finch
December 28, 2023 at 9:27 pm
DeSantis won the primary completely on Trump’s endorsement. And why did Trump endorse DeSantis? Because Putnam who is married and has three daughters, after the Access Hollywood video of Trump speaking of forcibly grabbing women surfaced in October 2016, said (as also reported by the Miami Herald): “Even by the base standards of this campaign season, his comments were vile and obscene. And he was absolutely correct!
And DeSantis was a Trump puppet then and afraid of him now!
MH/Duuuval
December 28, 2023 at 9:54 pm
Neither Putnam nor Dee had much to show for their time in Congress except hot air.
Desantis is a fascist
December 29, 2023 at 5:16 am
Desantis has done nothing but push bigotry and his own agenda
GOParty
December 31, 2023 at 2:19 pm
Desantis has a resignation from Congress: )))
Resign or be indicted on campaign finance fraud.
My Take
December 28, 2023 at 9:57 pm
“You’re the greatest!” they all tell me.
Would they lie?
Would I lie?
Don't Say FLA
December 28, 2023 at 11:00 pm
When Trump says he has a friend who said blah blah blah, you know he’s lying based on his record of always lying.
When Rhonda “Dee” DeSantis says they have a friend who said blah blah blah, you know he, too, is lying. Rhonda doesn’t have any friends. Because Everybody Hates Rhonda!
It’s Complicated
December 29, 2023 at 10:15 am
Adam Putnam is a sterling character, and would have made a fine Governor. This ego-stroking, anti-humility stuff is a sticky wicket that all politicians should steer clear of. It’s just ugly.
MH/Duuuval
December 29, 2023 at 11:25 am
Putnam was a right-wing zealot in Congress with little interest in much except thumping his chest and trying to irritate his political opponents.
My guess is he would have kowtowed to DJT, though perhaps not be as malleable as Dee.
Elmo
December 29, 2023 at 12:15 pm
Another fairy tale concocted by Ronnie the narcissist.
Biscuit
December 29, 2023 at 5:08 pm
Breaking Snooze out of Iowa: Florida Governor Ron DeSantis tells dazed crowd of Iowans that he hears voices when he is in Florida — two different kinds of voices — but they are all good voices, so no worries. Nearly every man, woman and child scratched their heads nervously as the crowd dispersed on tiptoes.
Arf.
Adan Sutnam
December 29, 2023 at 8:04 pm
What a jerk.
Joe
December 30, 2023 at 6:03 pm
“They came up to me, tears in their eyes…”
Lol, keep on lying, Tiny D
Abram Nicholson
December 31, 2023 at 2:55 pm
And some of us other Florida residents said we did not vote for you and never will because you stand for nearly everything we are against.
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