Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said on Thursday that former President Donald Trump is actually a favorite among Democrats.
That’s because they can’t wait to get to the polls to vote against him, the Republican presidential candidate added.
DeSantis appeared in Tampa to announce the endorsement of 60 of Florida’s 67 sheriffs. That included two Democratic sheriffs.
During the event, DeSantis questioned Trump’s electability in the 2024 general election.
He said people suggest that Joe Biden in 2020 was “such a disaster.”
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“I don’t think anybody voted for Biden,” DeSantis continued. “They were voting against Trump! That’s why they did it. Let’s just be honest.”
“He energized Democrats. You could have John Kennedy walk through the door right now and he wouldn’t energize Democrats as much as Donald Trump does. That’s just the reality,” added DeSantis.
“What did we do in Florida with these Democrats? We defeated these Democrats. We left the Democratic Party in Florida in a pile of ruins. They’re dead.”
As evidence, DeSantis cited recent voter registration numbers.
Florida now has about 589,000 more Republican voters than Democratic ones.
When DeSantis first ran in 2018, Democrats held a lead among registered voters of about 257,000.
Since 2018, 15 Florida counties have flipped from Democratic to Republican control.
“We’ve never had more Rs than Ds in Florida history,” he noted. “We did that with me being governor.”
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