Florida’s Governor is rebuking the Second Gentleman for suggesting that Kamala Harris will make a play in the Sunshine State.
During an appearance on “The Ingraham Angle,” Ron DeSantis dismissed Doug Emhoff’s assertion that Democrats will “see what they can do in Florida” as simple “wishful thinking.”
“At the end of the day, you have a candidate, Kamala Harris; she’s a vapid San Francisco leftist. We’ve got people that have fled San Francisco to come to Florida to get away from Harris’ type of governance. I have people in Florida who fled Minnesota to get away from Tim Walz’s governance. They saw Minneapolis burn when he was governor. He sat there and let it happen. So that’s not in the cards, especially in Florida,” the Governor said Thursday.
According to polls, the race is closing. In this state, with a million more Republicans than Democrats, Trump is up by just three points on average.
Yet DeSantis says it’s more than a numbers game, and Trump will win “not just because of the fact that we have so many more Republicans now, but we have a lot of Republicans who know what that type of leftist governance is,” and that Harris’ beliefs are “out of step” with Americans.
Emhoff was in the Villages last week, where he addressed a number of topics, including Project 2025 and its “attacks on seniors. ” While noting Trump has threatened political opponents, he praises the Jan. 6 insurrectionists, still questions the 2020 Election, and invokes Hungarian leader Viktor Orban as a “character witness” during the debate with Harris.
During a fundraiser Wednesday, Emhoff told donors, “The map is wide open, and we need the money to compete in seven and possibly eight states.” He added that he was “just in Florida at the Villages, and it was wild.”
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