The Sunshine State governor made a similar comment in late December where he said the Maine ruling 'opens up Pandora's box'

The Sunshine State governor made a similar comment recently when he warned that Maine’s ruling disqualifying Trump ‘opens up Pandora’s box’

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has revealed that he’s “looking” into ways to block President Joe Biden from the 2024 primary ballot in Florida.

“This is just going to be a tit for tat and it’s just not gonna end well,” the GOP presidential candidate warned Friday alongside Rep. Chip Roy, R-TX, according to a video posted by CNN. “You could make a case — I’m actually looking at this in Florida now [if we] could we make a credible case” to block Biden from the ballot “because of the invasion of 8 million.”

  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.comEnglish
    2842·
    11 months ago

    But like…that’s the thing. They have to look for a credible case to remove their political opponents. In contrast, the reason to remove Trump is self-evident, even to Republicans.

    • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1512·
      11 months ago

      Conservatives think any consequences they have is retaliation.

      So they don’t see the difference in this.

      It’s just the lack of empathy, if they do something illegal, they assume everyone else does it too so it’s fine. If they get in trouble, it’s obviously not fair because in their head they’re being singled out.

      • GombeenSysadmin@feddit.uk
        72·
        11 months ago

        God can you imagine Biden saying, “it’s not persecution you dumb fuck, it’s consequences for your actions!”

        • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
          151·
          11 months ago

          Nope.

          And that’s the problem. Biden would never say it because he thinks there’s still a bipartisan future.

          • jasondj@ttrpg.network
            51·
            11 months ago

            I’d rather our Presidents weakness be “hope for a return to normalcy” than “Putin’s hot gooey load”.

    • iBaz@lemmy.world
      794·
      11 months ago

      Everything Republicans do is retaliation for things Trump has done to himself. There are 0 credible reasons to remove Biden from ANY state ballot, but they’ll try to find a way regardless.

      Then they will be sued, and they will lose. Unlike the GOP, the Democrats have really good lawyers.

      • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world
        24·
        11 months ago

        What’s more, if they are going to remove Biden for failing to prevent illegal immigration (despite actually having significantly higher arrest and deportation numbers under Biden than Trump), then they should reasonable have to remove Trump as well… given, you know, the whole insurrection thing. To not do so would imply that the supposed failure of a president to sufficiently address one very complicated issue (even though he’s better than Trump on this issue by their own metrics) is worse than attempting to coerce officials into “finding” votes for him, conspiring to produce fraudulent electors, lying and defaming for months about supposed fraud that had no basis in fact, and, of course, inciting an insurrection on the capital building.

        • iBaz@lemmy.world
          20·
          11 months ago

          And they won’t give Biden the money to fix a border crisis because they know it will help his approval numbers leading up to the election.

      • QHC@lemmy.one
        13·
        11 months ago

        More importantly, the Democrats also have better arguments and facts (at least in this case).

    • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
      9·
      11 months ago

      Yep. If there was a credible case, it would already be motoring through the court.