During the first 2024 GOP primary debate hosted by Fox News Wednesday, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis used a line associated with former President Donald Trump to express his stance on the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic.
DeSantis stated that he would have fired Dr. Anthony Fauci, who was a prominent figure in leading the White House’s response to the pandemic during the Trump administration.
“Why are we in this mess? Part of it and a major reason is because how this federal government handled COVID-19 by locking down this economy,” DeSantis said.
“It was a mistake,” DeSantis said. “It should have never happened, and in Florida, we led the country out of lockdown. We kept our state free and open. And I can tell you this, as your president, I will never let the deep state bureaucrats lock you down.”
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“You don’t take somebody like Fauci and coddle him. You bring Fauci and you sit him down, and you say, ‘Anthony, you are fired,'” he added.
Christie Slams Ramaswamy
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie slammed conservative businessman Vivek Ramaswamy during the GOP presidential debate Wednesday evening over his stance on climate change, comparing him to former President Barack Obama and calling him an “amateur.”
Fox News’ Martha MacCallum asked the 2024 Republican presidential candidates whether they believed humans were to blame for climate change.
Ramaswamy interrupted Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ response, and argued that climate change is a “hoax,” prompting Christie to call him an “amateur.”
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“Let us be honest as Republicans. I’m the only person on this stage who isn’t bought and paid for, so I can say this. The climate change agenda is a hoax, the climate change agenda is a hoax, and we have to declare independence from it,” said Ramaswamy. “The reality is the anti-carbon agenda is the wet blanket on our economy, and so the reality is more people are dying of bad climate change policies than they are of actual climate change.”
“I’ve had enough already tonight of a guy who sounds like Chat GPT standing up here,” said Christie. “The last person in one of these debates, Bret, who stood in the middle of the stage and said, ‘what’s a skinny guy with an odd last name doing up here?’ was Barack Obama, and I’m afraid we are dealing with the same type of amateur standing on the stage tonight.”
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Ahead of posing the question, Fox News’ Bret Baier and MacCallum mentioned how the Biden administration and Democratic Gov. Josh Green of Hawaii blamed climate change for the recent fires in Maui.
MacCallum also noted a recent tropical storm in California, rising temperature of Florida’s oceans and record-breaking heat waves in the South West.
Ramaswamy has made it a part of his campaign platform to denounce the “climate cult,” while pledging to bolster American energy independence.
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