“Ron DeSantis groveled to NBC News in an interview Monday in which he declared Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. A majority of Republicans do not believe that Joe Biden won the 2020 election.“Ron DeSantis will say whatever he can to keep his campaign afloat, even though he was one of America’s leading election critics until his campaign needed a ‘reset.’ Ron will do whatever it takes to hoodwink a few more donors into giving to his failed campaign.” — Karoline Leavitt, spokeswoman for Make America Great Again Inc. Background:DeSantis Encouraged Donations To Support President Trump’s Legal Efforts“The president really worked his heart out for us. Really for four years, but particularly the tail end of that campaign coming off Covid. We need to see this through, we need the law followed, we need people to be able to observe when the law allows that. And this has got to be on the up and up. So, I would just urge everyone to donate to the president’s legal relief. I know you’ve talked about a number of suits and I think some of those have promise.” [The Ingraham Angle, Fox News November 5, 2020]DeSantis Called For People To Contact Their State Reps in Michigan And Pennsylvania For Remedies“But I would also tell them, especially if you’re in those states that have Republican legislatures like Pennsylvania and Michigan and all these places. Call your state representatives and your state senators. Under Article II of the Constitution, presidential electors are done by legislatures and the schemes they create in the framework. If there’s departure from that and they’re not following the law, if they’re ignoring law, then they can provide remedies as well, so I would exhaust every option to make sure we have a fair count.”” [The Ingraham Angle, Fox News November 5, 2020]DeSantis Refused To Call Joe Biden the “President-elect”According to the Orlando Sentinel, “But when asked if he accepted Biden as the President-elect, DeSantis deferred. ‘It’s not for me to do, but here’s what I would say: Obviously we did our thing in Florida, the Electoral College voted, [and] what’s going happen is going to happen,’ DeSantis said. ‘But I can tell you I think a lot of the frustration for folks who supported the president is, we were four years with people not accepting him.’” [Orlando Sentinel, 12/16/20]DeSantis criticized 2020 election coverage for creating the narrative that Biden is the “rightful winner.”“Then Fox called Arizona very early. Now, the president is closing in. There’s over 300,000 ballots outstanding, he’s down only 46,000, and yet that is called for Biden. Meanwhile, North Carolina, the president is up 76,000 votes and there is at most 150,000 votes outstanding and probably not even close to that much, and yet that’s not called for the president? So, there’s been a double standard and there seems to be there’s been more of a rush to call states for Biden and to create a narrative that Biden is the rightful winner.” [The Ingraham Angle, Fox News November 5, 2020]DeSantis raised the issue of ballot dumping in places in Pennsylvania.“Place like Pennsylvania, they can accept ballots after the election. It doesn’t even have to have a postmark on it and they can still accept them…As you mentioned, you’ll get like a 4 am dump of massive votes for one candidate and almost none for the other and people look at that and they just scratch their heads.” [The Ingraham Angle, Fox News November 5, 2020]DeSantis had no comment when asked if Mike Pence had the power to halt the certification of votesAccording to NBC News, “Eyeing a possible White House bid, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis declined on Monday to weigh in on one of the most divisive issues in the GOP: Could then-Vice President Mike Pence have ‘overturned’ the 2020 presidential election?…Asked Monday with whom he sides, DeSantis wouldn’t say. ‘I’m not. I … ,’ DeSantis told reporters at an immigration-related media event at the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora in Miami before he cut himself off. Pressed by a reporter, DeSantis changed the subject to say he had a ‘great working relationship’ with the Trump administration during the two years his administration overlapped with it.” [NBC News, 2/7/22]DeSantis Questioned Fox News For Calling Arizona For BidenAccording to the Tampa Bay Times, “DeSantis didn’t need to be prodded. In the days since the election, DeSantis questioned Fox News for calling the race in Arizona for former Vice President Joe Biden, suggesting the network had a motive, though he didn’t elaborate on what it might be.” [Tampa Bay Times, 11/6/20]” This post has 0 comments. The post Will The Real Ron DeSantis Please Stand Up? appeared first on The Desk of Donald Trump.
