Confession is good for the soul.. But DeSANTIS seems like he's tip-toeing through the tulips, ala Tiny Tim. DeSANTIS' statement about the Big Lie lacks humility. DeSANTIS did not apologize for his longtime association with DONALD JOHN TRUMP. How do TRUMP supporters feel about DeSANTIS today?
DeSantis says Trump’s stolen-election theories were all false
“I’ve said many times: The election is what it is,” DeSantis said, according to audio from the Iowa campaign event Friday. “All those theories that were put out did not prove to be true.”
DeSantis did not call out Trump by name and hedged his answer somewhat by saying that the 2020 election was not “conducted the way I think that we want.” He also baselessly accused unnamed election officials of “ballot harvesting” and social media companies of “stifling information” in the 2020 election.
“But that’s different than saying ‘Maduro stole votes’ or something like that,” DeSantis added, referring to an unfounded claim that Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro somehow influenced the vote. “Those theories, you know, proved to be unsubstantiated.”
Asked if he had watched coverage of Trump’s arraignment on Thursday, DeSantis said he only saw a little bit because he had been overseeing an execution in Florida.
Representatives for the DeSantis campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
DeSantis has a long record of dodging questions about Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, as well as Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, 2021, as a violent pro-Trump mob sought to halt certification of the vote.
At a town hall in New Hampshire in June, DeSantis ducked a question on whether Trump “violated the peaceful transfer of power,” even as he showed a new willingness to criticize the former president on other fronts.
Many Republican presidential candidates have tiptoed around the Jan. 6 attack. But DeSantis stands out for how carefully he’s avoided placing direct blame on the former president, even as he has gone after him on other matters. He has responded to questions about the Jan. 6 insurrection by calling it everything from “unacceptable” on the day of the attack to, later, “a dead horse” and simply a media obsession.
At a campaign event last month, DeSantis shifted course and knocked Trump for his behavior on Jan. 6 — but he did not endorse a criminal investigation or charges against Trump and reiterated now-common Republican allegations that the Justice Department is politically biased.
In an interview on the “Megyn Kelly Show” last month, DeSantis suggested that, if elected, he would pardon Trump for any federal charges.
“I don’t think it would be good for the country to have an almost 80-year-old former president go to prison,” DeSantis said on the podcast.
He's got nothing to lose that he hasn't already with Trump voters, and it's pretty clear Trump's claims were false. So NOW he comes out and says something. Not much of an early adopter of the truth is he? Like it would pay off for him with that sort of base.. most of them believe that pigs can fly and that Trump is still president.
ReplyDelete