Wannabe: Lincoln Project mocks Gov. Ron DeSantis skipping high-profile conference

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Gov. Ron DeSantis may talk tough, but his no-show at a high-profile conservative conference is earning him a profile in cowardice from the Lincoln Project.

The project is dropping a 45-second ad, “Wannabe,” this morning to its millions of followers on social media networks, riffing on DeSantis’ decision to stay away from the political equivalent of Mecca for White House hopefuls — this week’s Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland that started Wednesday.

The Governor has all but declared he’s a candidate for President, but his vanishing act shows the real DeSantis is not the tough-talking bully he portrays at his news conferences or in the ad “God Made a Fighter” — especially not if former President Donald Trump might be in the room, according to Rick Wilson, Lincoln Project co-founder.

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Fox Host Asks Ron DeSantis Why His Campaign Sucks So Badly

Fox host Maria Bartiromo didn't hold back during an interview with Florida governor and GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis over the weekend, and she asked him frankly what has happened to his campaign. She pointed out that he is losing ground in the polls as Trump's support grows, and DeSantis simply laughed it off like it was no big deal. DeSantis is quickly becoming the biggest flop that the Republicans have had in a long time, and the real reason is glaringly obvious, as Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains.

Ron DeSantis says men with Nazi flags were ‘not true supporters’

During a televised Ron DeSantis town hall in New Hampshire, the problem of displays of Nazi iconography in Florida proved to be a topic of interest beyond the state’s borders.

Asked about people who purported to be supporters of his who had “flags that said DeSantis 2024” and “Nazi, swastika flags,” DeSantis said he didn’t “think that they are” his supporters, before suggesting that the display was part of an “operation” against him.

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Ron DeSantis vs. the Tampa 5 with Gia Davila

On March 6th, five protesters at the University of South Florida in Tampa Bay, FL were brutalized by campus police during an action that protested Governor DeSantis’ racist attacks on education. Gia Davila, a member of the Tampa Bay Students for a Democratic Society, was one of the students who were attacked and arrested. Today she joined us to recount the events of the day, the continuing fight for justice for the Tampa 5, and the political repression in Florida under Ron DeSantis.

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Ron DeSantis talks illegal immigration crackdown in Texas border town

Ron DeSantis began his week in Eagle Pass, Texas, calling attention to issues at the Mexican border.

“No excuses on this. Get the job done. Make it happen,” DeSantis said, promising that immigration enforcement would be a “Day 1 priority” if he’s elected President.

The Governor vowed to “build the wall,” noting the current construction allows for illegal entry and said governments should “use force to repel them.”

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Ron DeSantis Walks a Tightrope

Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, who is widely viewed as Trump’s most serious potential rival in a Republican primary race. The political world watches DeSantis’ every move nowadays, and many awaited his reaction to the search with bated breath. here

Gov. Ron DeSantis seeking $2.2 million for election police force

Gov. Ron DeSantis wants another $2.2 million for a controversial election police force. But there’s no guarantee the Legislature will provide the funding.

This week, DeSantis released his “Focus on Florida’s Future” budget and requested funding for 16 full-time positions in the Office of Election Crimes and Security.

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Ron DeSantis announces State Guard deployment to Mexican border, expanding his armed force’s mission

Gov. Ron DeSantis will be deploying a battalion of the Florida State Guard to the U.S.-Mexican border to deal with what he calls a “total disaster.”

“The goal is to help Texas fortify this border,” DeSantis said, noting it was the first deployment of the group he reformed recently.

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Ron DeSantis charges Kamala Harris with trying to ‘chirp and demagogue’ Florida Black History guidelines

During a press conference in Utah, Gov. Ron DeSantis derided Vice President Kamala Harris for trying to “chirp” and “demagogue” about Florida’s revised Black History standards.

DeSantis defended the “robust” guidelines, which include teaching middle school students “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” and teaching high school students about “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans” in the context of events like the Ocoee Massacre.

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Ron DeSantis slates return trip to Israel

For the second time during his tenure as Florida Governor, Ron DeSantis is headed to the Holy Land.

Per the Jerusalem Post, “DeSantis will travel to Israel in April to attend the Jerusalem Post and Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem ‘Celebrate the Faces of Israel‘ event on April 27.”

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‘They chop off heads’: GOP lawmakers in Florida call Ron DeSantis vindictive

Gov. Ron DeSantis may have the support of most sitting state lawmakers. But are Republicans already out of office smearing the Governor to the national press?

One unnamed former legislator accused DeSantis of vindictiveness to The Washington Post.

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Ron DeSantis suggests cutting federal spending, silent on Social Security, Medicare cuts

The Governor is offering vague solutions to the debt ceiling crisis.

Gov. Ron DeSantis is offering a solution to the current federal debt ceiling crisis.

“What they should be doing is reducing spending,” DeSantis said in Miami.

However, the Governor ignored the question from a reporter about whether Social Security and Medicare should be “on the table,”....

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Ron DeSantis Carves Out a Brand as a Book-Burning, Anti-LGBTQ+, Racist Authoritarian

Ideological attacks on public education are central to the politics of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who is carving out a brand as a book-burning, gay-phobic, transphobic, racist authoritarian. A Fauci-hater and anti-vax hero of right-wing media, DeSantis restricted instruction on gender identity and sexual orientation with his "Don't Say Gay" law. He limited what schools can teach about racism and diversity with his "Stop WOKE" law. He rejected math textbooks en masse for what the state called "prohibited topics," such as critical race theory; and he banned an Advanced Placement course in African-American studies for high school students on the grounds that it is a tool for "political indoctrination." Playing the wannabe tough guy, he wants to troll his way to the White House as America's premiere culture warrior.

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DEATH WISH: Ron DeSantis and his contempt for senior citizens

Social security is at risk, and the conservative answer seems to be finding ways to avoid paying out to those senior citizens who’ve spent their lives paying in.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is again using life expectancy as an excuse to cut social security — though he’s now using the exact opposite argument from what he presented a decade ago. Back then, DeSantis suggested that with increasing life expectancy, social security must be cut, and now, he’s instead citing the shorter lifespans of today’s senior citizens.

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Ron DeSantis vows to strip accreditation from colleges with DEI programs

If elected President, Ron DeSantis is promising big changes to American higher education, including moves to “totally blow up the accreditation cartel.”

During an interview on the Hugh Hewitt Show, DeSantis said embracing “alternative accreditors” would allow for social justice initiatives embraced by universities to be scuttled.

“It’s going to be, instead of you have to have gender studies or you have to have (diversity, equity and inclusion) to get accredited, it will be the opposite. We’re not going to accredit you if you have DEI and some of these other things,” the graduate of Yale University and Harvard Law School said.

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Ron DeSantis a disaster for the Florida GOP

Something like six different polls, 12 Ouija boards and 38 “Magic 8 Balls” all agreed that Ron DeSantis is losing to Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum. You know, the guy DeSantis calls a socialist. HERE

Nikki Fried files ethics complaint against Ron DeSantis

Florida Democratic Party Chair Nikki Fried has filed a complaint with the Florida Commission on Ethics against the Florida Governor. At issue: purported “gifts” from DeSantis’ state-level Friends of Ron DeSantis political committee that violated a statutory ban, particularly in light of the Governor being termed out of office in 2026.....MORE

Ron DeSantis’ Yearbook Reveals He Didn’t Always Hate AP

When Florida Governor Ron DeSantis floated the possibility of eliminating Advanced Placement classes from his state’s curriculum, he conveniently left out an important fact. DeSantis was once the “AP US History student of the year,” according to his high school yearbook.

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Ron DeSantis accused of illegal acts of torture against Guantanamo detainees when he was a Navy JAG officer

 

Mansoor Adayfi, formerly detainee #441 and also known as Abdul Rahman Ahmed, says JAG Officer Ron DeSantis observed, allowed and participated in illegal acts of torture to help put down a hunger strike in 2006 by dozens of detainees protesting their detention. DeSantis also covered up the torture, Adayfi says.

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Marco Rubio 2.0? Chris Christie mocks ‘canned line’ in Ron DeSantis’ debate memo

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie continues to target Ron DeSantis.

In comments Saturday in Atlanta, the former New Jersey Governor made light of a strategy memo released by the DeSantis political operation that telegraphed an attack on him at a debate next week.

“I don’t know. A canned line used by a Florida politician, on a debate stage, against me? What could go wrong?”

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