Democrats and the media are “whitewashing” things from Vice President Kamala Harris‘ past as they scramble to deal with the fallout from President Biden’s sudden exit from the 2024 race, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis claimed.
DeSantis, 45, who unsuccessfully ran to be the GOP presidential nominee underscored that his party is “in for a battle” against Harris, 59, but was optimistic that Republicans will prevail.
“The media really worked hard to push Biden out. And now what you see is all the arteries of the left, the corporate media, Hollywood, academia, they’re using all the king’s horses and all the king’s men to try to put the Democratic Party back together again,” DeSantis mused on Fox News’ “Sunday Morning Futures.”
“We have all seen her. I mean, she’s incredibly vapid, even more incredibly liberal, and she doesn’t have any accomplishments,” he continued.
DeSantis contended that Harris “owns” the border crisis, inflation crisis and other failures of the Biden administration.
Republicans have highlighted how Harris was tasked in the early years of the Biden administration with tackling the causes of the migration surge into the US.
A melange of polling has pegged the border crisis as a top issue for voters heading into the Nov. 5 presidential election, which is now 100 days away.
The Sunshine State governor then knocked GovTrack for memory-holing its analysis that she was the most liberal senator in 2019 and warned that Harris’ allies are “whitewashing things from her past.”
“We’re down here in Florida. It’s hot in July, be hot in August, but you’re going to see a blizzard of lies over the next few months,” he said. “They’re going to try to rewrite history.”
During the thick of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary cycle, Harris took a number of hard-left positions, including support for Medicare for All, a ban on fracking, decriminalizing illegal crossings of the border and more.
In the time since she has walked back many of those positions.
Harris abruptly became the presumptive Democratic nominee for president last week after President Biden dropped out of the race last Sunday and endorsed her as his successor.
Top Democrats quickly rallied around her last week following Biden’s endorsement and bombshell announcement that he was pulling out of the presidential contest.
At the moment, Harris has sufficient delegates backing her to be the party’s standard bearer. She is expected to be officially crowned the nominee in a virtual roll call within the next two weeks.
DeSantis reflected that after former President Donald Trump debated President Biden last month, “There was no way Biden was going to win.”
But he stressed that after Biden, the next best option for Republicans is Harris, “because she owns all the policies” and won’t “be able to distance herself from them.”
“Biden set the bar so low. It’s like the soft bigotry of low expectations,” DeSantis said candidly. “Biden makes her look like Socrates, just because we’re so used to him not even being able to do anything.”
“The Trump administration was far more successful than the Biden/Harris administration, and people are going to have that stark choice.”
DeSantis ultimately dropped out of the 2024 GOP primary in January after clinching a distance second in Iowa behind Trump.
Trump, 78, had fumed against DeSantis for challenging him. But he promptly softened his rhetoric after DeSantis exited.
DeSantis then spoke energetically at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee earlier this month and managed to put a smile on Trump’s face repeatedly during his speech.