‘He wasn’t all there’: Ron DeSantis says he saw Joe Biden’s ‘rapid’ decline happening

biden desantis
The Governor thinks Kamala Harris was part of the 'cover-up' and that she may not be the presidential nominee.

Gov. Ron DeSantis says he could tell for years, based on crisis response interactions with the president, that Joe Biden “wasn’t all there” and was experiencing a “rapid decline.”

During a segment on Fox News’ “Watters World,” Florida’s Governor discussed Biden’s “dementia” that he saw over the years.

“He’s come down to Florida after hurricanes, and I could tell that he wasn’t all there, and it’s gotten a lot worse in the last year, year and a half,” DeSantis said.

DeSantis and Biden interacted after the 2021 Surfside Building Collapse and 2022 Hurricane Ian. However, during the response to 2023 Hurricane Idalia, DeSantis did not meet with the President, focusing on another area of the state hit by the storm.

Nonetheless, DeSantis says the deterioration has been years in the making, evidenced by “just the interactions, how he would respond to different things.”

“Sometimes we’d have you know, like a roundtable, with some of the stakeholders after an event,” DeSantis related. “We had the Surfside tower collapse the first year of his presidency.”

“You know, you notice some things that are very odd, then you notice kind of how he’s handled the year after that when he came down for Hurricane Ian. It was just clear that this is a guy compared to when he was in the Senate or (was) Vice President that he had declined. And I think the decline, you know, this is not a linear decline, it’s rapid and the last year and a half I think has been really, really significant.”

DeSantis also spent time in the interview saying VP Harris was part of the “cover-up” of the President’s “senility,” and predicted that she may not be the Democratic nominee after all, just hours before California’s delegates put her over the top with pre-DNC commitments.

“Yes, she doesn’t have dementia, but I think she’s a lousy candidate. And I was surprised at how many Democrats rushed to endorse her. Remember their convention is not for another month. And so it wouldn’t surprise me if she faceplants over the next two weeks that you start to hear calls from those power brokers to maybe go in a different direction,” DeSantis said.

“We’ll see what happens. But the reality is, is she knew about Biden’s condition this whole time.”

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


17 comments

  • My Take

    July 22, 2024 at 10:49 pm

    But he hasn’t noticed unmoored Trump.

    • Frankie M.

      July 22, 2024 at 11:00 pm

      Little did we know Ronnie has been a mole within the Biden WH all this time. Alas he has become the thing he hates the most…a DC Beltway insider. Trump has always been crazy & has thus lowered expectations for basic competency over the years. People don’t want a POTUS that knows boring policy. They want a POTUS who is nonsensical & entertaining like a clown. What’s wrong? Are you not entertained?

      • Tod Greend

        July 23, 2024 at 1:03 am

        I have made $200 reliably in one day.That was my ideal day in my life and my boss was to a great degree content with me..CNN is additionally awed from my work and is outstandingly happy..check also unpretentious parts by open the affiliation and tap on HOME TECH OR MEDIA………

        Begin here>>>>>>>>> Fullaccess76.blogspot.com

      • Tom

        July 23, 2024 at 7:20 am

        In this case, Harris is the lesser of two weevils I guess but yes, we are entertained.

  • Merle Sands

    July 22, 2024 at 10:53 pm

    And Trump rattling on and on about sharks and batteries is normal?

    • Facts

      July 22, 2024 at 11:20 pm

      You can attack him on other things but that was just a funny story. If you’re interested in facts he was talking about how the Biden EV mandates extend to boats, which are having engineering difficulties to develop to the mandated all-EV standards due to the size and weight of the batteries and the fact they can’t get wet without risk of electrocution and power loss. They weigh down the boats too much and present safety hazards. He was joking he’d rather get electrocuted than be eaten by a shark, but he didn’t like having to make that choice. It was when he visited a boat manufacturer. He’s not losing it, he’s pointing out issues that need to be dealt with because it’s hurting industries and has issues. So try all the other stuff instead. People just parrot instead of learning for themselves. If you’re going to attack someone at least put some effort into it.

      • MH/Duuuval

        July 23, 2024 at 4:04 pm

        Here’s a fact: Life expectancy fell by nearly 2 years among white folks while Trump was President, and though white folks doing opioids badly was one factor, another was MAGA true believers who refused to get vaccinated against COVID.

    • JustBabs

      July 23, 2024 at 11:58 am

      Trump not only presents with a serious personality disorder but now his dementia is advancing fast. For those already suffering from extreme mental disorders, the symptoms of dementia are more pronounced and dangerous for the victim and those around them. In this case, the danger includes 100’s of millions of people.

      • My Take

        July 23, 2024 at 4:55 pm

        Trump –demented AND crazy

  • Michael K

    July 22, 2024 at 10:54 pm

    No, governor. A lousy candidate is someone who didn’t even win a single county in Iowa after burning through $160 million.

    • No Mo Joe

      July 23, 2024 at 5:58 am

      What about. What about. Stay on topic zombie. It’s all about Joe’s cognitive decline and the fact that the media and your party hid that from the American people for nearly four years..

      • otoh

        July 23, 2024 at 5:34 pm

        No. This article is entirely about the governor.

  • Frankie M.

    July 22, 2024 at 11:01 pm

    That was his advisors fault. Ronnie doesn’t own mirrors

  • PeterH

    July 23, 2024 at 12:05 am

    Meanwhile ….. absent of Republican magical thinking Kamala has raised $92 million dollars in 24 hours and it was just announced she has enough delegates to win the nomination. So far no Democrat has come forward to contest Ms Harris!

    • Thad

      July 23, 2024 at 1:50 pm

      But does anyone really want to elect a radical leftist who slept her way to the top and has repeatedly demonstrated that she is incompetent?

      • Tom

        July 23, 2024 at 2:54 pm

        Keep pushing that narrative please. Every college educated women in the country who ever had to work twice as hard to get ahead in a career will vote for her. You can’t buy publicity like that. Show them who you really are … as loud as your can 🤣

  • wake me up when he's gone

    July 23, 2024 at 8:07 am

    Rona is apparently just fine with a sociopath, fraud, rapist felon who can’t control his bowel movements! Go figure. Oh yeah, Rona’s pick denies that he lost the election and calls the mob that attacked the Capitol “heros.”

Comments are closed.


#FlaPol

Florida Politics is a statewide, new media platform covering campaigns, elections, government, policy, and lobbying in Florida. This platform and all of its content are owned by Extensive Enterprises Media.

Publisher: Peter Schorsch @PeterSchorschFL

Contributors & reporters: Phil Ammann, Drew Dixon, Roseanne Dunkelberger, A.G. Gancarski, William March, Ryan Nicol, Jacob Ogles, Cole Pepper, Jesse Scheckner, Drew Wilson, and Mike Wright.

Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @PeterSchorschFL
Phone: (727) 642-3162
Address: 204 37th Avenue North #182
St. Petersburg, Florida 33704