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DeSantis shamelessly tries to take credit for something Democrats built [1]

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Date: 2023-02-03  

I didn't know they would want to know who really did it.

The Republican Party can be summed up in the lies and abusive bigotries of many of its elected officials. One of the most overrated of those officials is Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida. Ron clearly wants to run for president of the United States and has gone about it by attacking marginalized groups of people, doing a boring imitation of Donald Trump, and raising money. DeSantis has about the same chance of winning a primary against Donald Trump as Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio did before him.

This is in part because he is a true lightweight who can only handle the spotlight when there isn’t even a wisp of pushback. When DeSantis is asked the simplest of questions that do not align perfectly with his self-delusional statements, he falls to pieces. On Thursday, the governor’s featherweight political acumen was on full display. DeSantis did what he usually does: He stood in front of a microphone to take credit for something he really shouldn’t be taking credit for. In some cases DeSantis is taking credit for human and civil rights violations that include terrorizing children and families. These are horrible things to be taking credit for.

On Thursday, DeSantis was trying to take credit for something he didn’t actually do: provide major funding for rural broadband infrastructure. You see how positive that is? DeSantis couldn’t even make that happen without someone else, namely the Democratic Party, making it happen. Things started out poorly at the event as Gov. DeSantis’ signage on the front of his podium was giving too much away, reading “Expanding Rural Broadbrand.” Yes, press conferences with Ron DeSantis are only a (misspelled) branding exercise. But it got even better after that.

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