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DeSantis rejects Trump’s ‘stolen’ election claims: ‘Of course he lost’
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DeSantis rejects Trump’s ‘stolen’ election claims: ‘Of course he lost’
By Josh Christenson
August 7, 2023
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis doubled down on his criticism of GOP 2024 frontrunner Donald Trump over the former president’s claims the 2020 election was “stolen”, saying flatly that “he lost” and “Joe Biden’s the president.”
“Yes or no: Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?” NBC News correspondent Dasha Burns asked in a clip from an exclusive interview that aired Sunday.
“Whoever puts their hand on the Bible on Jan. 20 every four years is the winner,” replied DeSantis, 44, before reiterating his issues with the way the last presidential election was run.
“But respectfully, you did not clearly answer that question,” Burns pressed. “And if you can’t give a ‘yes’ or ‘no’ on whether or not he lost —”
“No, of course he lost,” the Florida governor said. “Joe Biden’s the president.”
On Friday, DeSantis had called Trump’s theories of widespread voter fraud “unsubstantiated” and mocked the 77-year-old’s outlandish claims of voting machines being hacked in key states to change the outcome.
The Florida governor also pointed Burns to election administration grants made by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the proliferation of vote-by-mail, third-party collection of mail-in ballots and the suppression of The Post’s bombshell report on first son Hunter Biden’s involvement of his father in his foreign business deals.
“I think what people in the media and elsewhere, they want to act like somehow this was just like the perfect election,” DeSantis said. “I don’t think it was a good-run election … But I also think Republicans didn’t fight back. You’ve got to fight back when that is happening.”
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Source: https://nypost.com/2023/08/07/desantis-says-of-course-trumps-lost-2020-election/
corbe:
https://youtu.be/-l2q7zzPB5Q
bigheadfred:
Seems a little wishy-washy per the last election
Maj. Bill Martin:
Seems exactly right to me.
LMAO:
This is a trick that the media is going to play on every single republican running
If they fully embrace Donald Trump’s claims, they win the primary. But then they go on to lose the general election.
So expect this question to be asked if every single Republican for years on down the road
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