Trump has been a vocal opponent of mail-in voting. They did the CARES Act, which funded mail-in ballots across the country."įlorida has long allowed anyone who wants to vote by mail to do so, including in the 2020 election. Anthony Fauci, a leader of the White House Coronavirus Task Force. "But here’s the issue that I think is important for Republican voters to think about: Why did we have all those mail votes? Because of Trump turned the government over to Fauci," DeSantis said, referring to Dr.
You’ve got to fight back when that is happening." "But I also think Republicans didn’t fight back. I don’t think it was a good-run election," DeSantis said. "I think what people in the media and elsewhere, they want to act like somehow this was just like the perfect election. Still, DeSantis made sure to point out in Sunday's interview that he saw a number of problems with the 2020 election, including Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s grants for election administration, the widespread availability of mail-in ballots, state laws that allow third parties to collect and return voters' ballots, and how social media outlets de-emphasized a story about the laptop of President Joe Biden’s son Hunter Biden. "Ron DeSantis should really stop being Joe Biden’s biggest cheerleader," Trump spokesman Steve Cheung told NBC News.ĭeSantis' comments come just days after Trump pleaded not guilty to charges that he broke the law by trying to overturn the 2020 election.Īnd at a campaign stop in Iowa on Friday, DeSantis also strongly dismissed theories that the election was stolen, saying they " did not prove to be true."
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