Ron DeSantis says he picks fights ‘establishment Republicans’ shy away from

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Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) presented an argument for how he, as the most recent candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, stands out against the establishment GOP.

DeSantis has been making the rounds across television news, giving an interview to Newsmax’s Eric Bolling on Thursday evening. Bolling asked the Republican governor how the candidate would address coming across as the more “establishment” candidate when compared to former President Donald Trump, who is leading the polls for the Republican nomination.

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“How many establishment Republicans would have sent illegal aliens to Martha’s Vineyard? How many establishment Republicans would have stood up against Disney?” DeSantis said. “How many establishment Republicans would have signed the bill that I just signed to ban land purchases from people affiliated with the CCP in the state of Florida? We’re now being sued by the ACLU for that. How many establishment Republicans would have leaned in to support our children against the pronoun Olympics? We banned the pronoun Olympics in our schools — we’re the first state to do that. How many establishment Republicans would have banned gender transition surgeries for minors? We not only would take the doctor’s medical license — we’ll put the doctor in jail if they are mutilating minors.”


The candidate also said that he had not spoken with former Speaker of the House Paul Ryan since he was elected governor. DeSantis also said he had only met former George W. Bush adviser Karl Rove “once in my life.”

“So on every issue, that kind of the old guard of the Republican Party would have shied away from in a New York minute, I’m not only leaning into them — I’m winning against the media and against the Left. You know, we say Florida is the place where woke goes to die because we’ve defeated the Left on all these fronts. And my pledge, if I’m elected president after two terms, we will leave woke ideology in the dustbin of history,” Florida’s governor said.

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Meanwhile, even Trump took the side of Disney in its squabble with DeSantis. In Trump’s opinion, the mass media company, which had its self-governance status removed and has had to cancel plans to build its newest campus in Florida, has “absolutely destroyed” the Florida governor.

Both Trump and DeSantis will face off against former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC), and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy in the race to win the GOP presidential nomination.

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