Florida Governor Ron DeSantis shared an earnest reaction to Democrat Stacey Abrams’ gubernatorial bid in Georgia Friday when he implored voters from the Peach State to keep her out of office to prevent a “cold war” between the neighboring states.
DeSantis was attending an event in Gulf County, FL on workforce development to promote a $23 million investment in the northwest region of the state meant to continue the economic gains that have left Floridians better off than they were prior to COVID. The Republican governor particularly cited the low unemployment rate, better than pre-pandemic, and that expected budget surplus of approximately $20 billion to end the fiscal year.
After having run into some Georgian tourists, DeSantis felt inclined to lead off the event with some sentiments about his neighbors to the north.
Gov. DeSantis Awards Northwest Florida $23 Million https://t.co/VS0uy4DxqP
— Ron DeSantis (@GovRonDeSantis) April 8, 2022
“I just want you to know we really appreciate our Georgians,” DeSantis led in. “If Stacey Abrams is elected governor of Georgia, I just want to be honest, that will be a cold war between Florida and Georgia at that point.”
“I mean, I can’t have Castro to my south and Abrams to my north,” he explained, referencing the communist regime in Cuba, “that’d be a disaster. So, I hope you guys take care of that and we’ll end up in good shape.”
As the media began reporting on the remarks, DeSantis’ spokeswoman Christina Pushaw took a moment to point out that, despite continued lies about the governor and “misinformation” about his positions, this story was completely true.
Fact check: TRUE 😛 https://t.co/9mmWfOllVU
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 9, 2022
She further elaborated that the remarks were not planned for the event and that DeSantis was speaking entirely off the cuff when he weighed in on Abrams.
It was off the cuff, I saw the prepared remarks and it didn’t have anything like that 😂 he happened to meet some tourists from Georgia today and they came to his press conference so he gave them a shout out
— Christina Pushaw 🐊 🇺🇸 (@ChristinaPushaw) April 9, 2022
The governor’s office more formally replied to Newsweek for comment stating, “The governor was simply making an analogy to the stark ideological differences that underpinned the Cold War.”
“If Stacey Abrams wins the governorship of Georgia,” the statement continued, “we know that her approach to leadership will involve more heavy-handed government, taxes, and bureaucrat influence. In Florida, Governor DeSantis will continue to keep Florida free and put citizens first.”
According to a poll conducted by The Hill in conjunction with Emerson College, Abrams is trailing incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp (R) and his primary challenger former Sen. David Perdue (R). Kemp leads the former state House Minority Leader 51 percent to 44 percent whereas Perdue leads 49 to 44.
That polling comes in spite of the media’s continued efforts to bolster the name recognition of Abrams who has yet to concede her 2018 gubernatorial race that she lost to Kemp. Along with regular commentary appearances on progressive outlets, Abrams recently portrayed the president of Earth on the season finale of “Star Trek: Discovery.”
She has also joined with Amazon Studios to produce a documentary on “voter suppression” and there have been reports NBC plans to turn Abrams’ fiction into a TV series, supporting a clear effort to increase her credibility with low-information voters.
Abrams has not yet responded to DeSantis’ remarks.
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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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Magilla Abrams??? I thought only humans were eligible to run for office???
Isn’t GA screwed enough already with all the OTHER DEMOcrats infesting Congress and GA Offices?? When we visit relatives in GA we rarely AND I MEAN RARELY stray OFF I85!! We USED to like to go dancing at a club in Buckhead but the last two years have NOT been good to go there. I do hope that we can go to BUCKHEAD CITY in the NEAR Future!!
Democrats in Georgia have voter fraud down to a science – that big obese, racist and anti American sow will win the governors race-just watch.
Remember, this obese bag of pig offal considers losing by 50,000 votes a ‘WIN”.
Dinesh D’Souza upcoming May documentary ‘2000 Mules’ incriminating Stacey Abrams in the 2020 stolen elections, might deter her gubernatorial plans.
Hopefully they will be looking for a cell to squeeze her into. I hope its a small one.
Gap tooth POS LYING RASICT SCUM N****R
I’m a Georgia voter… the ONLY reason Abrams even came close in 2018 was through election loopholes and violations (like 11th hour rule changes, and ballot harvesting). As long as Kemp and Raffensperger don’t go belly up again, and acquiesce to the Left’s BS, we should be fine…
This time there will be GOP observers at every ballot counting station, and we won’t be locked out, as we were in 2020.
Democrats don’t have a prayer in Ga., unless they cheat… again.
Who in the hell would vote for her, she allowed the mlb to skip out of Georgia and go to a state whose voting laws are More stringent. The Only way she’ll win is by Cheating!!!!!
Stacey won’t win the GA governor. The only contest she would win is the second ugliest, fattest person in the US (Levine wins, no contest).
There goes Amazon !!
She did not win before what makes her think she will win now – but then again she believes the last election was stolen from her and still does – so hopefully she will continue to believe she had the election stolen from her – then maybe she will retire and everyone will be done with this wretched person
Well , theyve had plenty of time to fix their voting machines to cheat better.
Stacey Abrams is an agent of the Soviet Negro Republic pushing Communist “Curley Effect” on Black American Families!
Yep, I remember a boxer who showed America the type of disrespect they have for the U.S. by giving the “Black Ignorant Power Symbol ” at the Olympics and how most of America couldnt have cared less. It still sticks in my Craw. It also showed that he would rather go to prison than serve the nation that supported him. To me he was nothing more than a traitor and a Con.
No worries, Ron, as, Abrams will become governor when shrimp begin to whistle.
People of Georgia better really think about who and what her platform is totally
about before you vote for Abrams .
I’m Canadian, watch the politics of USA and she is one lying POS wannabe .
She so reminds me of the lying , conniving snake in the grass killery Clinton .
Vote for her ? You will regret it Georgia for 4 ,yes “ FOUR long years “ .
People will move to Florida if this lame goose wins ,and you will really ,LOSE .
Your more American than most Americans are.