A.G. Gancarski
With a slender majority in the House of Representatives hanging in the balance, President Donald Trump spent part of Major League Baseball’s opening day as the closer in two Special Elections on April Fools’ Day.
While Democrats Gay Valimont and Josh Weil were lightly regarded as the General Elections began, the President made it clear that they were no joke as he rallied Republicans to turn out for CFO Jimmy Patronis and state Sen. Randy Fine, the Republican candidates in Congressional Districts 1 and 6, respectively.
While Mike Waltz and Matt Gaetz won the seats handily in November, the landscape has changed since they resigned after last year’s elections.
Democrats have poured millions of dollars behind their candidates, and two Republicans accustomed to resource advantages from bell to bell ended up tagging Trump in at the end Thursday night.
On behalf of Patronis, Trump noted the “all-important Special Election” is “five days away on April Fools’ Day, and the fool will be the Democratic candidate … a radical-left gun grabber (who) will vote with Chuck Schumer, Hakeem Jeffries, and AOC+3.”
“The whole country’s actually watching this one,” Trump said. “Jimmy’s got a big lead in the polls, but we’ve got to make it too big to rig.”
“If you’re not fired up hearing President Trump, you need to get your pulse checked,” Patronis said, before lamenting more than $6 million behind Valimont from out-of-state supporters who think people on the Florida Panhandle are “racist” and “sexist.”
“They hate our American flag, and they hate President Donald Trump,” he added, before asking the “100,000 people on the call” to give him a follow on X.
Fine, who polling says holds a margin of error lead over Weil, thanked the “tens of thousands of voters” on the tele-rally and Trump for his “unwavering support.”
“It will be the greatest honor of my life to be one of your foot soldiers,” Fine said.
Trump noted he won CD 6 big.
“I love you, and you love me, and that’s good … but I’m asking you to get out and vote for a true American patriot, someone I know very well, Randy Fine.”
Trump said Fine endorsed him “early” in the 2024 cycle and will “be there whenever I need him.”
The President promised to “slash the costs of insurance in Florida,” though it’s uncertain how that will happen.
Trump then painted Weil as a “radical left lunatic” who “wanted men playing in women’s sports.”
“Randy’s running against the radical socialist who wants the government to run your health care. Randy’s Democrat opponent supports the transgender for everybody, the mutilation included, mutilation of children. He wants to spend $20 trillion on so-called reparations. You’re not gonna get any, but a lot of people, he wants to give them reparations. He wants to remove all of the sanctions on communist Cuba and socialist Venezuela and he wants to decriminalized heroin, fentanyl and cocaine and we have enough problems with drugs without having to do that,” he said.
Trump said he’d seen Fine in “pressure situations” and asserted he has done well under pressure.
Putting his closing argument on the President, Fine said Trump’s “legacy is on the ballot.”
24 comments
Mimi Vanderberg-Mustardseed
March 27, 2025 at 7:18 pm
It is just so uplifting to read about President Trump’s commitment to the brilliant, and dishy, Randy Fine.
MH/Duuuval
March 27, 2025 at 9:22 pm
tongue-in-cheek, right?
PeterH
March 28, 2025 at 10:06 am
LOL
Nurse Nancy
March 29, 2025 at 11:31 pm
There is something endearing about Mimi and Peachy…I feel sad for them both, thinking that the angry, cruel, puerile, vindictive, bellicose, demented, confused felon and the chainsaw hacksaw sidekick have any interest in helping Americans. NN
ScienceBLVR
March 27, 2025 at 7:24 pm
He wants to spend $20 trillion on so-called reparations. You’re not gonna get any, but a lot of people, he wants to give them reparations.
Oh yeah, Daddy, sign me up! I’m definitely in the “lot of people” category..
Josh Green
March 27, 2025 at 7:59 pm
Randy Fine is a subhuman piece of sh*t.
Michael K
March 27, 2025 at 8:33 pm
I’m not certain, but I think the current president tells yuge lies and just makes stuff up.
$20 trillion? Are people really that stupid?
Peachy
March 27, 2025 at 9:56 pm
Of course you didn’t watch the DOGE report tonight on FOX with 8 members of the team and the stories they told about fraud, waste, and abuse. You like taxes I guess. If you pay any.
Skeptic
March 27, 2025 at 10:40 pm
Emphasis on “told stories”, am I right? Facts are hard to pin down, stories are easy to make up.
Along for the Ride
March 27, 2025 at 11:11 pm
Well said
Peachy
March 28, 2025 at 7:50 am
Well you could watch the replay. You might actually learn a few things. For instance roughly 40% of the phone calls received daily by the SSA are fraudsters trying to change direct deposit instructions. Then there are many cases of SBA loans given to minor children. Then there are over 4 million government credit cards issued to roughly half the number of employees.
Skeptic
March 28, 2025 at 11:47 am
If I believed any of that crap, I would be off-the-walls pissed off that Trupmty Dumpty and PhELONious Musk were hell bent on defunding and repurposing federal law enforcement, from inspector generals to the FBI to judges, whose mission in life is to prosecute, judge and sentence the types of violators of federal law that PhELONious makes up for gullible low-information viewers of his infomercial. I am waiting for PhELONious to decide that we need to cut federal prisons so that his and Trumpty’s fellow travelers can be FREE (to prey on the sheeple that watch Faux News). But I don’t believe the make believe of Fox News et. al. and join all patriots that mourn the ways that Trupmty and PhELONious are creatively destroying the once-great country of my and my ancestors’ birth.
MH/Duuuval
March 29, 2025 at 2:34 pm
If true, then the thing to do is tighten up on allowing those specific, numerous fraudulent phone calls. That is no reason to cut off phone access all together. This lack of foresight characterizes MAGAs who practice smash and grab politics.
Michael K
March 28, 2025 at 8:43 am
I cut cable ten years ago, but I did read that “Big Balls” was not among the great white knights who want to turn the government into an Apple store.
I know that investigative journalists are digging into the “Wall of Receipts” and find gross errors, false claims, and misrepresentations of fact. Those “receipts” soon are disappeared.
The Cat In The MAGA Hat
March 28, 2025 at 8:10 am
You did have problems electing a fraudster for Senate Google Rick Scott Medicare Fraud
PeterH
March 28, 2025 at 10:09 am
Did the Fox clown show with team Musk provide verifiable proof of their claims?
Along for the Ride
March 27, 2025 at 11:14 pm
It speaks volumes that republicans KNOW that what they are doing is unpopular yet continue to do it. They are not LISTENING to us and WE ARE THE PEOPLE! They represent us and yall want Randy Fine to be your representative??? Ugh disturbing and disgusting.
Peachy
March 28, 2025 at 7:51 am
Where was the outrage when banks, auto companies, airlines, etc were furloughing employees, slashing pay and benefits?
A Day Trump Make Bank Fail
March 28, 2025 at 8:15 am
Will you be outrage when your bank fails,they usually fail. On Friday night,maybe you should start checking your on Friday,since Trump is trying to do away with the agent that insure deposit Google Trump FDIC Bank Failure
Peachy
March 28, 2025 at 9:41 am
Good morning Yrral. Long time no hear from. So do you also subscribe to the notion that the Repubs are coming for SSA, Medicaire, and Medicaid? One other question. Is Jasmine Crockett really Cardi B?
Skeptic
March 28, 2025 at 2:54 pm
Did you somehow confuse these private entities with state enterprises? Do you realize that the management teams that made those layoffs answer to shareholders not taxpayers? Do you have the vaguest clue about the difference between capitalism and communism? They used to teach this in Florida schools.
MH/Duuuval
March 29, 2025 at 2:36 pm
Which time? In 2008-2009 the taxpayers pulled most of those folks out of the ditch, especially the equity speculator class.
kronikdenny
March 28, 2025 at 11:46 am
Dondolf Twitler is a danger to our national security. He supports terrorists in ” Israel ” , and he hates Palestinians. He endorses fascism, and is now literally having US citizens kidnapped and disappeared. It’s no surprise he likes Randy Fine. They’re both useless.
Jesse
March 28, 2025 at 9:24 pm
Describing the process of transgendered persons transitioning as “mutilation” is bigoted and wrong.