In an interview with NBC News, Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) responded to a question concerning the results of the 2020 election by saying, “Of course, he [Trump] lost…Joe Biden is the president.” When the governor first got a query, it was “Yes or no, did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?”
Initially, DeSantis said that “whoever puts their hand on the Bible on January 20th every four years is the winner.” Later, the interviewer pushed him by stating “respectively you did not clearly answer that question and if you cannot give a yes or no whether Trump lost then how can you-” DeSantis then made a statement in response.
A well-known X user who supported the former president Trump, Johnny Maga, remarked on this DeSantis statement and stated, “Desantis just said Trump lost the 2020 election … He chose the DC consultants over the 70% of Republicans who believe Trump won … His career is finished and it should be.”
The governor’s presidential ambitions have not performed well in surveys, even inside his home state, despite achieving a decisive victory in 2022. His polling numbers haven’t changed despite extensive efforts to revamp his campaign and drastically cut staff.
Richard Baris, a pollster with extensive connections to the Republican Party’s fundraising community, said on X that he overheard a former DeSantis contributor say that “If there was no real primary, it would be impossible for them to do this…If he [Ron DeSantis] dropped out and endorsed Trump, that would be the end of this. But he won’t. He’s put his own personal ambition above us all…Nothing they pitched worked.” — Former DeSantis Donor as of an hour ago.”
Mr. Baris also emphasized that DeSantis had bet on the indictments helping him by removing Trump from office. He had been stating for some time that this was team DeSantis’ approach, and subsequently, a New York Times piece appeared stating the same thing. “Mr. DeSantis has privately forecast that the now twice-indicted Mr. Trump would struggle as his legal troubles mounted, but the governor continues to poll in a distant second place nationally” Baris paraphrased the piece and just stated “You’re welcome [for giving you this information long before the article was published].”
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Negative remarks were also directed against DeSantis as a result of reactions to his interview in which he claimed Biden won the election. One X user said, “The weakling submitted to an NBC reporter.”
Another user of X complained about “He sounds more and more like the Democrats.”
Due to issues like censorship and the use of unusual voting procedures in areas that are not used to them, the 2020 election has continued to be mired in controversy. Many conservatives claim that there has been a major departure from accepted procedures and constitutional standards due to the sheer magnitude of anomalies and possible filtering implications. These points highlight doubts about the accuracy of the results, raising the possibility that there were more errors than the reported Biden margin of victory.
