Florida Governor Ron DeSantis held his first presidential campaign event in Iowa where he told voters that the United States is “rapidly going bankrupt” after President Joe’s debt ceiling deal Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy.
DeSantis’ event west of Des Moines marked the governor’s first stop on a three-state, 12-city tour that will also include the two primary states, New Hampshire and South Carolina.
“It’s great to be back. And it is great for me to report that our great American comeback begins by sending Joe Biden back to his basement in Delaware,” DeSantis expressed to the packed auditorium.
“Our Great American Comeback” from his campaign. “I mean, he’s spent a lot of his time as president on vacation, we better make it permanent,” he added.
The Floridian launched during his campaign speech about a competent and conservative government, the New York Post reported.
“At the end of the day, leadership is not about entertainment,” said the 44-year-old politician. “It’s not about building a brand. It is not about pointing out virtue. It’s all about results, and in Florida, we don’t lead by words, we follow our words with deeds, and we’ve produced a record of accomplishments that we’d compare to anyone in this country.
“We signed the Heartbeat Bill [con] the strongest pro-life protections in modern Florida history,” the governor added, alluding to the Sunshine State’s six-week ban on most abortions to his strongly evangelical audience.
Likewise, DeSantis criticized Biden’s agreement with McCarthy to increase the limit of the debt ceiling.
“Now we see that Washington has prepared its latest ‘debt deal.’ And I can tell you this, our nation was headed for bankruptcy before the debt deal, and it will continue to go bankrupt after this debt deal,” he said.
“This is giving the green light to $4 trillion in new debt in less than two years. It took us nearly 200 years to get into $4 trillion in debt in the first place. Locks in inflated spending levels from the Covid era. And it keeps 98% of the 87,000 new IRS agents that Joe Biden instituted.”
So far, the Florida governor has positioned himself as a more electable, more trustworthy and more conservative version of former President Donald Trump, who is his main rival in the ranks of the Republican Party, defending many of the policies and engaging even more with the right on social issues.
Likewise, the Floridian politician referred to the border crisis, alleging that the Mexican drug cartels “have more control over what happens on the border than our own United States government.”
“Millions of illegal aliens have come to this country, including criminal aliens and even people on the terrorist watch list,” he noted. “The massive amounts of fentanyl brought in by the cartels have killed tens of thousands of our fellow citizens.”
Most national polls put DeSantis behind Trump by as little as double digits, but his supporters say the battle is in its early stages and Trump is mired in legal uncertainty.
Although some polls show that the governor is doing better than the former Republican president in head-to-head confrontations against the Democratic executive, both nationally and in swing states.
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