Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis warned Vice President Kamala Harris would "destroy" the United States the same way she "destroyed" San Francisco during her tenure as attorney general.
DeSantis gave his assessment of Harris' record in California during a Monday appearance on Newsmax.
“This is all the way until the election, assuming she gets the nomination at the convention, which it looks more and more likely that she will,” he said. “I’ve said that they were going to remove Biden. They did. And I also said if Kamala face-planted, that they would try to do plan B. I think that she’s been able to coalesce a lot of support. She’s raising a lot of money. And so, I think the media has come to the conclusion she’s going to be the candidate.” Tonight I joined Bianca de la Garza on Newsmax pic.twitter.com/GqG5yY9Bts
— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantis) July 30, 2024
“They are going to do whatever they can to drag her across the finish line. I mean, they’re taking a San Francisco Democrat who has no accomplishments," DeSantis said. "She’s as vapid a politician [as] you’re going to find — and they’re trying to turn her into a cultural phenomenon."
The Florida governor then compared Harris' campaign with a viral catchphrase from the 2004 comedy Mean Girls: "They’re trying to make fetch happen."
DeSantis added he believed Americans were "too smart" to fall for the corporate press' artificial push for Harris.
“At the end of the day, Harris is a leftist San Francisco Democrat,” he said. “San Francisco Democrats have destroyed the city of San Francisco; San Francisco Democrats have also destroyed the state of California. Why on earth would we want to have a San Francisco Democrat in the Oval Office to dig our country even into a deeper hole than Biden is already leaving us?”
DeSantis launched his presidential campaign in May 2023, though ended his bid for president earlier this year and threw support behind former President Donald Trump's reelection effort.
Trump was originally scheduled to participate in a second debate with President Joe Biden in September. It remains unclear whether Trump will debate the new presumptive Democratic nominee after Biden endorsed her earlier this month. Harris and Trump have been invited to participate in a new September debate hosted by Fox News.
