Trump Repeatedly Attacks DeSantis While He Manages Florida Hurricane Re
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Former President Donald Trump has taken aim at Ron DeSantis dozens of
times as the Florida governor has stepped off the presidential campaign
trail to manage his state’s crisis response to Hurricane Idalia.
The near-Category 4 Hurricane was a once-in-a-century storm to hit
Florida’s Big Bend and left severe flooding and billions of dollars in
its wake.
DeSantis arrived back in Tallahassee from Iowa on Saturday to manage the state’s response, which has been widely praised, before the storm made
landfall on Wednesday morning.
Early in the week, Trump said that rumors were “strong in political
circles that Ron DeSanctimonious, whose Presidential run is a shambles,
and whose poll numbers have absolutely crashed, putting him 3rd and 4th
in some states, will be dropping out of the Presidential race in order
to run, in Florida, against Rick Scott for Senate.”
DeSantis’ team responded, “This is fake news. Clearly, Donald Trump and
his army of consultants are panicked about @RonDeSantis’ winning debate performance and the strong momentum that has followed.”
Once the hurricane hit, DeSantis’ political operation largely went quiet
as the governor focused on responding to the storm.
Trump targeted DeSantis dozens of times on social media by posting
claims, videos, or online poll numbers that showed Trump leading
DeSantis, who is in second place, in the Republican Party presidential
primary.
Trump accused DeSantis of having “unnecessarily approved a 20% hike in
Florida Electricity Rates, the largest in history (by far!).”
Jeremy Redfern, press secretary in the governor’s office, responded,
“The Public Service Commission, an arm of the state legislative branch,
is responsible for setting rates for the states Investor-Owned Utilities (IOUs). The Governor does not have a role in setting rates for utilities
in the state. Additionally, energy costs have been rising since Biden
took office and killed domestic energy production.”
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As people in Florida dealt with the fallout of the hurricane, Trump
posted about how he got more votes than DeSantis in Florida, though
DeSantis was on a midterm ballot and Trump was on a presidential ballot.
“Ron DeSanctimonious is always talking about the number of votes he got
in Florida,” Trump posted Thursday in a video. “He doesn’t say that I
got a record 1.1 million more votes than him!”
Trump also posted a link to a Daily Mail article titled: “EXCLUSIVE: Ron DeSantis $50 million super PAC CLOSES after donors were spooked by
‘rookie s*** mistakes.'”
“Wow! ‘A Super PAC set up to back Ron DeSanctimonious with $50 Million,
is closing as donors have backed out -0 while its founder said the
Florida Governor’s campaign is guilty of rookie mistakes, and he will
now back Donald Trump.’ Daily Mail, by Morgan Phillips,” Trump wrote.
“Thank you to John Thomas, the highly respected Republican strategist!”
Rob Pyers, an expert in FEC filings, responded to the Daily Mail article
by mocking the defunct PAC as illegitimate. “I guess it’s a more eye-
catching headline than ‘Unauthorized DeSantis ScamPAC that paid its
founder 75% of the $1,621 it raised folds, will now support Trump with
the $57 dollars it has left,'” Pyers wrote.
lol…I guess it's a more eye-catching headline than 'Unauthorized
DeSantis ScamPAC that paid its founder 75% of the $1,621 it
raised folds, will now support Trump with the $57 dollars it
has left' pic.twitter.com/pAapDkmCJh
— Rob Pyers (@rpyers) August 31, 2023
The DeSantis camp had warned back in November 2022 about the “Ron to the
Rescue PAC,” saying it was “formed and continue to use Ron DeSantis’
name and likeness to raise funds without his permission or
authorization.” Legal counsel for DeSantis sent a letter at the time to
donors saying the PAC was “similar to other ‘pro-DeSantis’ PACs that
have formed and continue to use Ron DeSantis’ name and likeness to raise
funds without his permission or authorization.”
DeSantis Communications Director Andrew Romeo responded to the Daily
Mail report on Thursday: “We’ve made clear from the beginning that this
was a scam PAC looking to grift off Ron DeSantis and it comes as welcome
news they are no longer attempting to fleece our donors. Ron DeSantis
outraised both Biden and Trump last quarter, and we look forward to
continuing our fundraising success as we capitalize on his strong debate performance and momentum in the early states.”
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On Tue, 5 Sep 2023 13:15:50 -0000 (UTC), pothead <
pothead@snakebite.com> wrote:
On 2023-09-05, Charlie Glock <"Charlie Glock"@localhost.com> wrote:
On 2023-09-01, Ubiquitous <weberm@polaris.net> wrote:
Former President Donald Trump has taken aim at Ron DeSantis dozens of
times as the Florida governor has stepped off the presidential campaign
trail to manage his state?s crisis response to Hurricane Idalia.
The near-Category 4 Hurricane was a once-in-a-century storm to hit
Florida?s Big Bend and left severe flooding and billions of dollars in
its wake.
DeSantis arrived back in Tallahassee from Iowa on Saturday to manage the >>> state?s response, which has been widely praised, before the storm made
landfall on Wednesday morning.
Early in the week, Trump said that rumors were ?strong in political
circles that Ron DeSanctimonious, whose Presidential run is a shambles,
and whose poll numbers have absolutely crashed, putting him 3rd and 4th
in some states, will be dropping out of the Presidential race in order
to run, in Florida, against Rick Scott for Senate.?
I'm on the fence about DeSantis but from what I am reading he did a fine job planning for and
executing plans for the hurricane.
I suspect Trump is aware of this and going on the attack. This might have worked in 2016, but it's
bad politics in 2023.
DeSantis did excellent managing the disaster. Even Joe Biden, to his credit, said as much.
It hit a lightly populated area with lots of wilderness acreage. Lucky that.
Swill
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