Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Day 1053 of GOP election denier hysteria (Trump Big Lie Clown Show Circus, Florida edition)

 
ATTACK Of the Clown Show zombies
starring florida governor ron DeSantis
HeadlineNew York Times, 9/14/2023
Their suspicions about vast election malfeasance would be heard, Mr. DeSantis promised. He was setting up an election police unit and he invited the crowd to send in tips about illegal “ballot harvesting,” nodding to an unfounded theory about Democrats collecting ballots in bulk. 
The crowd whooped and waved furiously. “He gets it!” posted a commenter watching on Rumble. 
But in his seven-minute, tough-on-election-crimes sermon, Mr. DeSantis, a Republican, never explicitly endorsed that theory or the many others spread by the defeated president and embraced by much of their party. 
In this way, for nearly three years, Mr. DeSantis played both sides of Republicans’ rift over the 2020 election. As his state became a buzzing hub of the election denial movement, he repeatedly took actions that placated those who believed Mr. Trump had won[emphasis added]

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