President Donald Trump actually claimed that disgraced former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo handled COVID better than FL Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Cuomo forced sick people into elderly homes. He didn’t allow family members to be with their sick and dying loved ones.
Florida kicked butt! DeSantis kept the state open.
Also, when you want to compare COVID deaths, you have to look at population. Florida has the third highest population in the country. New York has two million fewer people than Florida.
I know it’s a primary but come on, dude. You moved to Florida for the freedom over oppressive New York. Trump:
DeSantis on The Ben Shapiro Show:
“First of all, Florida had less excess mortality than California or New York,” DeSantis said. “Part of that is because states like California had excess mortality derived from the lockdown policy, which is really, really avoidable mortality.””But if he thinks Cuomo handled it better, that’s an indication if something like this were to happen again, he would double down and do what he did in March of 2020,” DeSantis said on the Ben Shapiro Show.”That was a difficult situation. We didn’t have all the facts, and people can kind of understand if you did things that may not have worked out,” the GOP presidential contender said.”But we all have to sit here today in 2023, look back on March of 2020 and say, ‘Faucism was wrong. Faucism was destructive. Faucism has set us on this path with the CARES Act and the Fed printing money, creating inflation, and creating some of the economic problems that we have today.””So, if you could do it again, would he do the same thing?” DeSantis added. “I sure hope not.”DeSantis also said Fauci “should’ve been fired” by Trump while he was president and that the former president “responded” to the pandemic by “turning the reins over” to Fauci, “elevating” him.
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