He’s hitting Trump from the right
Just last week I wrote a column that was headlined:
Ron DeSantis’ gruesome campaign plan: I’m the genius who defeated COVID — and let thousands die
I discussed the Senate’s major report released last week about the Trump administration deadly response to the pandemic and the government’s lack of preparedness. They condemned the lack of a quick and clear mitigation strategy in the early months but complimented the “Operation Warp Speed” as the administration’s one major success.
I noted that Ron DeSantis is an anti-vaxxer and COVID denier who thinks that’s his ticket to the White House:
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is riding high on his pandemic-response reputation. Despite the fact that Florida has among the higher per-capita death tolls in the country, DeSantis has bamboozled the media into seeing him as a crusader for common sense public health measures. Apparently his “maverick” image on the pandemic is considered the key to his potential presidential campaign. (Appointing an anti-vaxxer as Florida’s surgeon general was a sweet way to own the libs, you must admit,) Evidently, he plans to run to Trump’s right as the guy who didn’t succumb to all that weak-kneed, girly-man, Fauci-loving, vaccination nonsense.
Well, lookee here:
DeSantis and his quack surgeon general are currently holding an anti-vax roundtable event
DeSantis: “Today, I’m announcing a petition with the Supreme Court of Florida to enpanel a statewide grand jury to investigate any and all wrongdoing in Florida with respect to covid-19 vaccines.”
DeSantis's quack surgeon general is using this anti-vax roundtable to suggest that covid vaccines can kill you (scientists have found that the benefits of vaccination outweigh any risks https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/vaccines/safety/adverse-events.html)
DeSantis announces a new anti-CDC: "Our CDC, at this point, anything they put out, you just assume, at this point, that it's not worth the paper it's printed on … we're creating what we're calling the Public Health Integrity Committee."
Originally tweeted by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) on December 13, 2022.
This is where he’s going. Is he on to something? Are mainstream Americans now so anti-science that they want to vote for someone who will happily kill hundreds of thousands of them to own the libs?
There’s a new poll out today from USA Today. Republicans are ecstatic over DeSantis and are cooling toward Trump, bigly.
By 2-1, GOP and GOP-leaning voters now say they want Trump’s policies but a different standard-bearer to carry them. While 31% want the former president to run, 61% prefer some other Republican nominee who would continue the policies Trump has pursued.
They have a name in mind: Two-thirds of Republicans and those inclined to vote Republican want Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for president. By double digits, 56% to 33%, they prefer DeSantis over Trump.
While Biden now leads Trump, he trails DeSantis in a head-to-head race, with DeSantis at 47%, Biden at 43%.
This anti-vax, COVID denial may be the only thing that would make me actually miss Trump. His Operation Warp Speed was literally the only thing he did right.
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