‘Poetic justice’: Ron DeSantis says ‘blundering’ Joe Biden undercut Kamala Harris’ closing argument

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'This is blowing up in their face.'

The Veep’s speech on the Ellipsis was eclipsed by the President’s gaffe about garbage.

That’s the take from political commentator Ron DeSantis, who remarked on the “poetic justice” of Joe Biden’s “blundering” working to undercut understudy Kamala Harris’ closing argument in the Nation’s Capital.

DeSantis dished to Fox News host Jesse Watters that Harris sought “massive production value to try to have a closing argument,” but was sabotaged by the man she replaced as the Democratic nominee earlier this year.

“Here comes old Joe blundering into the scene, saying that all the Trump supporters are garbage, totally undercutting her at that moment in the race,” DeSantis declared.

The Governor had stressed a strong relationship with Biden in the wake of destructive hurricanes this season, but true to past form, once the storms passed, the familiar rhetoric returned about the President.

President Biden seemed to compare Trump supporters to “garbage” in the wake of a comedian’s description of Puerto Rico as an “island of floating garbage” Sunday at a Trump rally in New York. A transcript cast some doubt as to whether the President was referring to supporters writ large or the roast comic cooked by many in the wake of comments more suited to a comedy club than the close of a campaign.

But Republican House members are casting doubt on the transcript as “false.”

House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik and House Committee on Oversight and Accountability Chairman James Comer argue that the clean-up attempt violates the Presidential Records Act of 1978.

Regardless of the quote, the political impact is being felt from Biden’s ill-timed remarks, as comments from DeSantis and many others on the right shows this week, offering effective counterprogramming to the self-inflicted crisis created by the “Kill Tony” booking in the Big Apple.

A.G. Gancarski

A.G. Gancarski has been the Northeast Florida correspondent for Florida Politics since 2014. His work also can be seen in the Washington Post, the New York Post, the Washington Times, and National Review, among other publications. He can be reached at [email protected] or on Twitter: @AGGancarski


73 comments

  • I Am Garbage

    October 30, 2024 at 8:40 pm

    I love that guy Slo Joe Biden. #1 Republican recruiter for the month of October.

    • White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump

      October 31, 2024 at 5:55 am

      You are trash too Trump and even worse ,you are to.dumb to.know Google Trump Supporters Basement Dwellers

      • Earl Pitts AMERICAN

        October 31, 2024 at 6:46 am

        Good Morn ‘Ting America,
        NEVER FORGET:
        It’s not “NEWS” until Earl Pitts AMERICAN “WEIGHS IN”.
        America Biden has been so whizzed off at The DNC for pushing him out and replaceing him with an idiot totally unacceptable to ALL Americans.
        Again Biden is so upset that he has began actively stabbing Kamalla in the back.
        As a result Democratic candidates up and down ballot can not win.
        “Thanks for bringing on The Big Red Wave Joe”. Said Earl Pitts AMERICAN.

      • Biden is Garbage

        October 31, 2024 at 9:09 am

        Eat shit and live. You love the taste.

      • JustBabs

        October 31, 2024 at 5:08 pm

        Not the first time someone in his immediate circle says Trump privately “mocks his supporters” and refers to them as “basement dwellers. I’m sure he has a lot of disparaging words for them. They certainly aren’t any use to him once the elections are finished and their behavior is mocked by most of the World.

    • Biden is Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 9:58 am

      Only Joe gets the “He misspoke” defense from cult blue. Everyone else, never gets a free pass. They are so full of crap.

      • Otoh

        October 31, 2024 at 12:19 pm

        Glad MAGAs can hear the difference between supporters, supporter’s, and supporters’…lol

        Here’s Trump’s Harris comment: “It’s the people that surround her, they’re scum and they want to take down our country,” Trump says in the video. “They are absolute garbage.”

      • MH/Duuuval

        October 31, 2024 at 2:13 pm

        MAGAs don’t try to explain their remarks, they double down.

      • Dont Say FLA

        November 1, 2024 at 8:24 am

        When Turnip J Truck spews outrageous nonsense, the defense is that “Trump is just being Trump.”

        When Turnip J Truck says voting for him makes you a manly man and makes all the women desire you and makes you last longer and makes you a winne and, most unbelievably of the mall, makes your future bright, the truth is that “Trump is just being Trump.” Sad!

        Everything Trump tells you that you like hearing? Well, unless you’re a billionaire, “Trump is just being Trump” when he says those things.

        And you’re falling for it again. You just keep falling for it. Every. Single. Time.

        Third time’s a harm

    • White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump

      October 31, 2024 at 9:27 pm

      There should be a special place in hell for anyone who supports, Trump regardless their reason,for supporting racist rapist trash

  • EARL PITTS AMERICAN

    October 30, 2024 at 8:43 pm

    America just loves the fact that Ron and The Beautiful Casey Desantis will occupy THE WHITE HOUSE for the next 12 years following Don “THE DONALD” TRUMPS upcoming 4 year term.
    EARL PITTS AMERICAN

    • Biden is Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 10:06 am

      Americans do. Not the blue cultist trash that is out to destroy the country.

      • A Day without MAGA

        October 31, 2024 at 10:10 am

        It ain’t your damn country,you only own what is yours,you do not own the title too America,you probably do not own your property clear and free,but you no more than a Amortized Debt Slave Google Amortize Debt Slave

        • Biden is Garbage

          October 31, 2024 at 10:34 am

          *to
          Illiterate.
          Prove you have allodial title and a land patent like the Bundys have. I’ll wait…

    • Otoh

      October 31, 2024 at 10:35 am

      Usha says not so fast..!

      • MH/Duuuval

        November 1, 2024 at 11:01 am

        Usha, a high-powered attorney, is behind the Vance push for child care. No way she could leave the kids with JD.

    • White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump

      October 31, 2024 at 9:29 pm

      Casey is already occupying a special place in hell,by being married to Desantis

      • YEW OWEME

        November 1, 2024 at 3:15 pm

        RAPIST TRUMP, you are so right about casey desantis. IF there was a hell, she would be there. too bad heaven and hell is a christian conspiracy bs story. you put out good posts, thank you for that.

  • cindy

    October 30, 2024 at 9:40 pm

    he calls it raw sewage the stuff we swim in the rivers trailer trash waste that need to be disposed of

  • Jojo

    October 30, 2024 at 10:06 pm

    I’m constantly amazed at the hypocrisy of Ron and his MAGA buddies.
    Either Biden is a saboteur undercutting Kamala’s presidential bid or he’s a doddering old fool who should never have been on the ticket.
    Pick one Ron- you can’t have it both ways.

  • Frankie M.

    October 30, 2024 at 10:16 pm

    Joe Biden calling out a racist comment by a Trump supporter(or maybe he was a Biden plant all along as Ronnie will soon claim) is blowing up in his face….right. Ronnie better hope another hurricane doesn’t hit anytime soon or he might end up in a campaign mailer shaking Joe’s hand. 😂

  • Tom Palmer

    October 30, 2024 at 10:43 pm

    If there ever were a Florida blunderbuss. it would be Rhonda

    • Biden is Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 9:10 am

      Gillum lost. Seethe more libturd. You are all garbage

      • YEW OWEME

        November 1, 2024 at 3:20 pm

        please get that turd off your lip, biden is right, maga is trash.

  • Michael K

    October 30, 2024 at 11:00 pm

    On October 25, Donald Trump called this great nation the garbage can if the world. Typical of his dystopian view of this great nation and her people.

    • Biden is Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 11:19 am

      “If the world”
      What form of illiterate blue cultist nonsense was that, stooge?

      • YEW OWEME

        November 1, 2024 at 3:23 pm

        MAGA MARK, it’s a minor spelling error, is that the answer you were looking for. i don’t capitalize, i must be a demon huh?

  • A Day without MAGA Trash

    October 31, 2024 at 5:47 am

    When has MAGA not been trash, Google Melania Jan 6 White Trash

    • I Am Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 6:30 am

      Yrral with his daily racist rant of the day.

    • Biden is Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 10:19 am

      Democrats are the party of hate, bigotry and racism.

      • YEW OWEME

        November 1, 2024 at 3:25 pm

        MAGA MARK, do you seriously think we won’t see that you switched the word gop with dem? silly boy.

  • Earl Pitts AMERICAN

    October 31, 2024 at 6:50 am

    America,
    You’ve gotta admit that Earl Pitts AMERICAN’s Sage Commentary is “JUST THE BEST”!!!!!
    Thank you for your Sage Love and Support of ME, Earl Pitts AMERICAN

    • YEW OWEME

      November 1, 2024 at 3:26 pm

      WHATEVER DUDE

  • Ocean Joe

    October 31, 2024 at 6:55 am

    For all that we are, all our success and failures as a country, Trump’s decision to let a guy like Stephen Miller loose, to SEPARATE SMALL CHILDREN FROM THEIR PARENTS as a means to punish illegal immigrants and dissuade others from coming marks the level of his humanity: nonexistent.
    And this is on all of us. We share the guilt of letting this man let his indecency become our own.

    Joe Biden, far past his prime, has trouble speaking, but if he was referring to many of the folks at MSG, it was a lucid interval.

  • A Day without MAGA

    October 31, 2024 at 7:02 am

    Take out the paper and the MAGA trash,and don’t comeback Yaky Yaky

    • Biden is Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 9:11 am

      You are the subhuman trash. Eat shit and live. You love the taste.

      • Michael K

        October 31, 2024 at 9:24 am

        Somebody spiked Miss Spoke’s (Peachy’s) Metamucil.

      • A Day without MAGA

        October 31, 2024 at 9:39 am

        You are racist trash,maybe Trump will pick up the rest of his racist Trash like you here

        • Biden is Garbage

          October 31, 2024 at 10:21 am

          Say that in public. You lack the spine. Blue cultist garbage.

        • Biden is Garbage

          October 31, 2024 at 1:55 pm

          Blue cultists are big pussies in real life.

          • MH/Duuuval

            October 31, 2024 at 2:17 pm

            Trump had to get help to get into the cab of a garbage truck. JD may be our next Prez, and what a chameleon he is.

      • YEW OWEME

        November 1, 2024 at 3:29 pm

        MAGA MARK, is that a 3rd grade school yard coment, or a 4th grade coment? silly boy

  • Jojo

    October 31, 2024 at 7:20 am

    Ya Ron – climbing up in a garbage truck, cooking fries at McDonalds – those are going to be pretty hilarious photos when he loses.
    Maybe now we need a quote from Biden about Trump deserving to be in jail and see how trump makes a joke about that.
    THAT would be poetic justice

  • A Day without MAGA

    October 31, 2024 at 7:33 am

    Desantis 160 millions dollar lost cause,a man overseeing a Banana Republic like Florida,maybe he should run for President in a third world country instead of the US

    • I Am Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 9:02 am

      Move to Kalifornia, or New York. Report back on paradise and then ask yourself why so many leave those places to come here. I wish I could be with you the first time you gas up your car in Kalifornia.

      • A Day without MAGA

        October 31, 2024 at 9:44 am

        People in Florida that got money,are leaving Florida for Texas,it will be a true Banana Republic of Florida, when all the young people leave

        • Biden is Garbage

          October 31, 2024 at 10:23 am

          You’ve been saying that for years, blue cultist. Total bs.

          • YEW OWEME

            November 1, 2024 at 3:33 pm

            MAGA MARK, people have been saying florida sucks for years, you’re right. but after these past few years with desantis screwing things up even more than it was, well now they’re screaming florida sucks, not jut saying it. you are full of bs as usual. grow up

  • ScienceBLVR

    October 31, 2024 at 9:07 am

    Today I was in the oval office for a preparatory meeting and I sat behind the President’s desk and I had a reality check. I sat there and I went: ‘Wait a minute, I’m a Jester. A Jester doesn’t rule the kingdom; he makes fun of the king’.” Robin Williams as Tom Dobbs in Man of the Year. Great film if you haven’t seen it, kind of prophetic really. A political satirist’s joke campaign works and he is accidentally elected through voting machine computer glitches( uh oh) and becomes President. Just how I felt in 2016. But Trump sure ain’t Tom Dobbs or Robin Williams.. just a clown. We won’t make the same mistake this time.

    • I Am Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 10:30 am

      I thought you were a school teacher? Why are you surfing the net when you should be working? Your students are getting cheated and so are my tax dollars.

      • ScienceBLVR

        October 31, 2024 at 1:49 pm

        Wow.. so flattered Peachy that you pay attention.. and here I thought you were just a Russian troll. We do get breaks you know, PE, art, music, lunch, after school meetings.. when the little ones return, we’ll have a lesson on democracy and how bullying, ignorance, misinformation have no place in political discourse…

        • YEW OWEME

          November 1, 2024 at 3:42 pm

          SCIENCEBLVR , peachy could improve his outlook on life if he attended the lesson you described. he seems to be a misinformed ignorant bully, so he will surly take a pass on a very valuable lesson you described. he blows up and name calls people for misspelling a word, what a loser. peachy, you are a howler monkey for sure. scienceblvr, you seem to be the opposite of peachy ( maga mark ). maybe florida is not a lost cause after all. i don’t puncuate, so please don’t think i’m a caveman.

  • A Day without Gas

    October 31, 2024 at 9:42 am

    At least people in California had gas ,not like people in Florida,were back in the ages of the Flintstones

  • A Day without MAGA

    October 31, 2024 at 10:15 am

    Lard Ass Trump struggling to get in trash truck, Google Trump Trash Truck Struggle

    • Biden is Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 10:27 am

      Your ho candidate lacks the spine to be interviewed by Joe Rogan. She’s pathetic. Just like you limp wrists

      • Michael K

        October 31, 2024 at 11:30 am

        Rogan declined the interview with Harris, who agreed to one hour. Get your facts straight.

        • Biden is Garbage

          October 31, 2024 at 1:56 pm

          Couldn’t do 3 hours. Get your facts straight, shit eater.

          • MH/Duuuval

            October 31, 2024 at 2:22 pm

            from National Review online:
            “Also, for the record the Harris campaign has not passed on doing the podcast,” Rogan posted early Tuesday. “They offered a date for Tuesday, but I would have had to travel to her and they only wanted to do an hour. I strongly feel the best way to do it is in the studio in Austin.”

            Translated: Joe wanted the home field advantage.

      • YEW OWEME

        November 1, 2024 at 3:45 pm

        MAGA MARK, now tell me again why harris is wrong for not wanting to bother with being grilled by a non-political bro master. dude, grow up.

  • A Day without MAGA

    October 31, 2024 at 10:18 am

    Tuesday Nov 5 is MAGA racist trash, make sure your trashy MAGA trash is at curbside on garbage day

    • Biden is Garbage

      October 31, 2024 at 10:26 am

      Stock up on crying towels libturd crap eater.

      • White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump

        October 31, 2024 at 11:08 am

        MAGA trash is not worth recycling,it might contaminate the environment

        • Biden is Garbage

          October 31, 2024 at 1:59 pm

          Blue turds must be flushed and the sewer must be cleaned afterwards. That’s how toxic you are.

      • YEW OWEME

        November 1, 2024 at 3:49 pm

        turdlip, get that turd out of your mouth. you got a few days left before we know whether light defeated darkness. i’m rooting for light, i hope my team wins.

    • White Spiteful Devil Rapist Trump

      October 31, 2024 at 11:06 am

      Your mom a whore,more than anyone else

      • Biden is Garbage

        October 31, 2024 at 1:57 pm

        I pissed in your mom’s mouth last night. She loved it.

        • YEW OWEME

          November 1, 2024 at 3:51 pm

          that sounds like a maga comment, am i right?

  • cassandra was right

    October 31, 2024 at 11:39 am

    We see DeSantis is still trying to process his own stunning loss instead of addressing his state’s many crises. When does Ron plan to do something about women and girls being denied abortion healthcare now that he has his ban? He smirks and says the law doesn’t prevent doctors from providing abortions in cases like that of “Caroline” (Amendment 4 ad.) Well then why isn’t he threatening doctors and hospitals? When does he start investigating? When does he send his police force to pick up a couple doctors? File something in court? Has he demanded legislation making it a crime for doctors to deny a brain tumor patient an abortion so that she can get prompt cancer treatment? Criminalizing not treating miscarriages with the standard of care treatment? Where’s his task force on this crisis? Are sanctimonious “pro lifers” demanding any of these things? All we’ve seen is implausible denials of responsibility…

  • MarvinM

    October 31, 2024 at 1:15 pm

    Don’t be surprised if Harris gets to or exceeds 270 EC votes Tuesday night.
    Florida probably will not contribute to that, but even if we did, it would not be because of fraud, it would be because of plain old GOTV.

    The campaign had been working here, knocking on doors and making phone calls. That’s bound to increase Harris’ vote total.
    But it may not be enough to take the state (the independents, NPAs, and Other Party person’s votes will weigh heavily into that.)

    Just sayin’, don’t freak out that there must be some fraud if Harris wins.

    Oh, I got off topic after all the 40 comments, most of which not on topic either.

    Marco, so quick to trash The President, so slow to support your Puerto Ricans brothers and sisters.

    Ron, not sure you know what “poetic justice” means. Not sure you know poems.

  • Skeptic

    October 31, 2024 at 2:06 pm

    I have to agree with DeSantis this time — Biden should exit the race. And DeSantis should put down the pipe and get with the times — Biden did so months ago.

  • Dont Say FLA

    October 31, 2024 at 7:11 pm

    Remember that time blundering Rhonda went to Iowa and a whole bunch of other places undermining not just themself but all Florida taxpayers as well? I remember. That’s why I will vote for zero GOPs this time or next time or the time after that, never again until they get their shit together and act like adults like they did before Reagan imported all the kooks into the party

    • MH/Duuuval

      October 31, 2024 at 8:53 pm

      Those Iowans, overwhelmingly white, were a tough crowd for Dee and I imagine he is still replaying his multiple failures in Iowa.

  • The man predictions are in the year 2525

    November 1, 2024 at 1:08 pm

    I remember the day food clothes and shelter where the basic needs. Then came guarantees of students loans.tgen that snowballed into you need a diploma for ever job available out there.
    That then snowballed into collage or lowlife.
    Then that gambled into higher wages and higher interests
    No one was happy there
    That was insisted on your constitutional rights agendas. And the off the chains began

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