A.G. Gancarski
Florida’s Governor is weighing in on recent developments in the Democratic presidential race and White House.
Ron DeSantis is levying his latest in a series of criticisms of presumptive Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
“After pushing Joe Biden out, it was predictable that corporate media would provide hundreds of millions of dollars worth of glowing coverage to his replacement. They are trying to do that with Kamala but it won’t work — she is too vacuous, too liberal and too unaccomplished for the voters to buy the manufactured narrative,” DeSantis posted to X.
This is the second time in as many days that DeSantis denounced the Democratic switcheroo atop the ticket.
“Kamala Harris was complicit in a massive coverup to hide and deny the fact that Joe Biden was not capable of discharging the duties of the office. She also was the border czar during the worst border crisis in American history. Democrats are just rearranging the deck chairs,” DeSantis posted Sunday after news that Biden wouldn’t run for a second term broke.
DeSantis has been predicting for some time that Harris would replace Biden atop the ticket.
“I would probably say Harris will muscle into it, but I think you would have J.B. Pritzker, Pete Buttigieg, Elizabeth Warren. I think they’d all be scrambling for it,” DeSantis said on a December edition of the “Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show.”
DeSantis has spent her entire term as Vice President diminishing her, seemingly relishing the contrast between himself and the first Black woman to be VP. A November appeal to donors threatened to send “Kamala back to her liberal homeland,” a statement that belies the fact that California is as American as Florida is.
In August, the DeSantis campaign stole a page from bygone talk show host David Letterman, with a coffee cup and a T-shirt spotlighting “10 things Kamala Harris should focus her time on.”
Nine of those things involve “closing the border.” And the 10th? “Making sure Joe Biden doesn’t fall.”
The campaign texted supporters with a pitch.
“Gov. DeSantis is going to cause Kamala Harris to start job hunting; we understand why she’s obsessed with hurting our campaign. Still, we’ve put together some suggestions of what she could be focusing on instead. What do you think? Do you want to help us remind our Vice President to … do her job? Click here to donate, and we’ll send you a discounted 10-things tee or mug to start off your DeSantis merch collection,” the promotional text read.
DeSantis, who has blamed the Vice President for national “decline,” spent weeks last Summer beefing with Harris over her critiques of Florida Black history standards, which contain language suggesting slavery could benefit the enslaved. He bemoaned her attacks on the trail.
“You can’t be operating in bad faith against your political opponents, 24/7,” DeSantis lamented in Iowa. “You can’t be doing fake narratives, and we have some Republicans that actually sided with Kamala’s lies just to try to get cheap shots in on me.”
The Governor has also focused on Harris as so-called “impeachment insurance” for at least a year.
“So, here’s the thing. I thought Biden picking her at first was the worst decision ever because she’s not great. But she’s like the best impeachment insurance and 25th Amendment insurance anyone could have,” DeSantis said in July 2022.
“Because as bad as Biden is, even though he can barely read the teleprompter, and as much as people disapprove of him, nobody wants Harris, and so they’d much rather stick with Biden floundering around than actually turn the wheels of power over to somebody that clearly is in over her head.”
16 comments
Michael roberts
July 22, 2024 at 3:34 pm
coming from a failed loser turned bleacher’s heckler.
Tom
July 22, 2024 at 4:10 pm
Why so much whining about what democrats are doing? Are they not confident in their own candidate? Seems to be the theme since yesterday.
Conservative always
July 22, 2024 at 3:38 pm
Remember when Tulsi Gabbard went off on Kamala Harris during the debate?
“Senator Harris says she’s proud of her record as a prosecutor and that she’ll be a prosecutor president.
“But I’m deeply concerned about this record. There are too many examples to cite but she put over 1,500 people in jail for marijuana violations and then laughed about it when she was asked if she ever smoked marijuana.
“She blocked evidence – she blocked evidence that would have freed an innocent man from death row until the courts forced her to do so. She kept people in prison beyond their sentences to use them as cheap labor for the state of California.”
Jay Smif
July 22, 2024 at 3:52 pm
“tulsi gabbard” – HA HA HA, you MAGA simp. She’s a Russian puppet and you’re in a cult, wankstain.
Proud Democrat
July 22, 2024 at 10:24 pm
Paradigm in the making… keep saying it, maybe someone will believe it. Where’s the proof of these statements? Tulsi Gabbard? Oh right… she’s a reliable source for the truth….lmfao.
Jay Smif
July 22, 2024 at 3:51 pm
Pudgy fascist Ronny D blew through what, $200 MILLION in funds with nothing to show for it save for two tacky leather jackets for he and his wife at SEVEN GRAND EACH?!
You can smell the MAGA fear in the air and its delicious.
Paul Passarelli
July 22, 2024 at 6:33 pm
Oh goody! Another vile alias rears its ugly ass.
Josh Green
July 22, 2024 at 4:22 pm
Unaccomplished? She’s the VP.
DeSantis just keeps riding on the fact that he ignored Covid, while just repeating the word “Woke!” over and over again like it actually means something. The guy is a clown.
tom palmer
July 22, 2024 at 4:57 pm
Ron DeSantis, one of the worst Florida governors in my lifetime, which stretches back to the 1940s, has little useful to add to this discussion.
Bwj
July 22, 2024 at 5:06 pm
Compared to JD Vance….and the orange guy.
Don’t Look Up
July 22, 2024 at 5:15 pm
Republicans picked their aging, tired, forgetful felon for presidential candidate. No one forced Republicans to pick Trump …. he’s your candidate by choice.
Senior citizens should not be voting…..and they certainly should not be running for office. They are responsible for the decline of America’s middle class. Reagan sold the GOP on trickle down economics a system based on a failed quagmire of fiscal policies that have never worked anywhere. The USA should follow Great Britain’s example of removing conservative Tories from office. Get rid of the Republican Party and replace it with the Green Party.
MH/Duuuval
July 22, 2024 at 5:59 pm
Waiting in anticipation of another presidential debate — if Trump isn’t running for cover already. What are the odds the public will get one?
Karma won’t stand for Trump wandering around the debate stage, either, as he did with Hilary.
Frankie M.
July 22, 2024 at 6:10 pm
Trump won’t take the stand because he will perjure himself. By the time Kamala gets done with the cross examine Trump won’t remember his own name if he ever did.
Frankie M.
July 22, 2024 at 6:09 pm
Ronnie appears to be projecting once again. If ur scared just say ur scared. On the bright side AG can stop complaining about Biden bashing the media & start complaining about Ronnie bashing the media.
Michael K
July 22, 2024 at 7:16 pm
Who cares what Ron DeSantis thinks? He’s milquetoast. And jealous that a woman without an Ivy League law degree is smarter and more accomplished than he could ever hope to be.
Proof? Start with the fact that she raised $81 million in 24 hours. That’s half of what he burned through in Iowa without winning a single county. She’s the Vice President. He’s nowhere near the White House.
Dr. Franklin Waters
July 22, 2024 at 10:04 pm
Well Trump liked her enough to donate $5000 to her in 2011. Invana chipped in $2000 as well.
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