This article comes from “infowars.com”
Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis declared that Joe Biden legitimately secured the U.S. presidency in the 2020 election with 81 million votes and that President Donald Trump lost.
The Florida governor was asked in an NBC interview on Monday by correspondent Dasha Burns whether Trump had actually lost the 2020 election.
“Whoever puts their hand on the Bible on January 20 every four years is the winner,” DeSantis answered.
DeSantis went on to qualify his answer, citing unconstitutional actions to change the election rules for COVID, universal mail-in ballots, and the FBI’s election interference by pressuring Big Tech to bury the Hunter Biden laptop story as “wrong.”
“When they changed the rules for COVID, I think that was wrong. I think some of those changes were unconstitutional. When they do mass mail ballots, I think that’s wrong. I think ballot harvesting is wrong. I think the Zuckerbucks were wrong. I think the fact that the FBI was working with Facebook and these other tech companies to censor the Hunter Biden story was wrong. And so I don’t think it was the perfect election,” said DeSantis.
But then DeSantis blamed Trump for some of those problems, claiming he signed the CARES Act which helped fund mail-in ballot distribution.
“Why did we have all those mail votes? Because Trump turned the government over to [Dr. Anthony] Fauci, they embraced lockdowns,” DeSantis said.
Burns, unsatisfied with DeSantis’ answer, pushed him again to clearly state whether Trump lost.
“Of course he lost. And Joe Biden’s the president,” DeSantis replied.
DeSantis, who is polling in distant second in the GOP primary at 17% to Trump’s 54%, at one time even blamed Trump for federal agencies “colluding” with Big Tech to stop the spread of the Hunter Biden laptop story — as if he was unaware these same agencies had conspired to remove Trump from office since 2016 with the Russia collusion hoax and first impeachment coup efforts.
“I look back at the Hunter Biden censorship, which was a huge, huge deal to happen in the 2020 election, and yet those were Donald Trump’s own agencies that were colluding with Big Tech. I would never allow that to happen. I would fire those people immediately,” said DeSantis in an interview with Maria Bartiromo.
This comes days after hotel mogul Robert Bigelow, a DeSantis megadonor who contributed $20 million to the pro-DeSantis super PAC “Never Back Down”, threatened to cut off funds if DeSantis doesn’t adopt a more “moderate” message over fears his “right-wing” approach is alienating independent voters.
“He does need to shift to get to moderates. He’ll lose if he doesn’t…Extremism isn’t going to get you elected,” Bigelow told Reuters, adding he voiced his concerns to DeSantis’ campaign.
So like a good career politician, DeSantis appears to have appeased his donor.
These comments are precisely why DeSantis’s campaign is struggling to attract the Republican base in the primary.
DeSantis’ full interview is set to air Monday evening on NBC Nightly News.