{"id":318998,"date":"2021-08-09T05:56:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T02:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/bidens-war-on-desantis-is-about-kneecapping-a-gop-governor\/"},"modified":"2021-08-09T05:56:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T02:56:12","slug":"bidens-war-on-desantis-is-about-kneecapping-a-gop-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/bidens-war-on-desantis-is-about-kneecapping-a-gop-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"#Biden\u2019s war on DeSantis is about kneecapping a GOP governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Biden\u2019s war on DeSantis is about kneec<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing a GOP governor<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The number of migrants crossing our southern border continues to break records, crime is surging and the COVID vaccination effort has stalled. So naturally, the White House spent the past week picking fights with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>President Biden said of DeSantis\u2019 refusal to implement vaccine passports, \u201cI say to these governors: Please help, but [if] you aren\u2019t going to help, at least get out of the way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The number of COVID cases in Florida has risen lately, that\u2019s true. But suddenly that\u2019s the fault of a governor? A year ago, when Joe Biden was the presumptive Democratic nominee, the spike in COVID cases was entirely the fault of then-President Donald Trump.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When the Northeast suffered a second COVID wave in the winter of 2020-2021, the buck stopped with the president \u2014 not Gov. Cuomo (D), or New Jersey\u2019s Gov. Phil Murphy (D) or Pennsylvania\u2019s Gov. Tom Wolf (D).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That New York and New Jersey had the highest COVID death rates in the country, the Democratic line went, wasn\u2019t the fault of their \u00adrespective governors \u2014 it was the president\u2019s alone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But now that cases are high again, the president is no longer in charge, and it\u2019s somehow governors who are to blame \u2014 but only those from the opposite party. As Christina Pushaw, DeSantis\u2019 press secretary, pointed out on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>, \u201cLouisiana, another southeastern state, broke its all-time COVID-case record. Seasonal virus, regional pattern. You just don\u2019t hear as much about other states as you do about Florida. I wonder what\u2019s different about Louisiana\u2019s governor?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The answer: He\u2019s a Democrat.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats want to treat the pandemic as a litmus test for good and bad behavior, judged according to purely political metrics. Despite the worldwide failure of masks and lockdowns, Democrats continue to believe that if Americans had just locked down harder and longer, or masked more, we would have gotten to COVID zero. Australia shattered this mythology recently, as it headed into its sixth lockdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis arrives at a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021, near the Shark Valley Visitor Center in Miami\" class=\"wp-image-19065450 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Virus-Outbreak-Florida-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Virus-Outbreak-Florida-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Virus-Outbreak-Florida-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Virus-Outbreak-Florida-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Virus-Outbreak-Florida-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is doubling down as the state again broke its record for COVID-19 hospitalizations.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Wilfredo Lee<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>DeSantis refused to follow this deranged path. When the Sunshine State reopened beaches in the spring of 2020, we were told that mass deaths would follow. They didn\u2019t. When Florida reopened most businesses in summer of 2020, we were told that mass deaths would follow. They didn\u2019t. When Florida reopened schools in fall of 2020, we were told that mass deaths would follow. They didn\u2019t.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It couldn\u2019t have been easy for DeSantis to buck the trend. But opening up and moving on was the right thing to do, and other states followed his lead.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The White House is now picking a fight with him precisely because he was successful in opening his state and getting the rest of the country to follow. DeSantis is a target because he won\u2019t bend the knee and continue to implement measures that have failed everywhere else.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The media are toeing the White House line by claiming that DeSantis wasn\u2019t proactive enough in promoting vaccination. That\u2019s simply wrong. I resided in Florida in the months the vaccines were made public. I got vaccinated in Florida. DeSantis was all over the state motivating people to get jabbed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" alt=\"A healthcare worker administers a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine during an event hosted by the Miami Heat at the FTX Arena in Miami, Florida, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 5, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19065446 lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/florida-vaccine.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=300 300w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/florida-vaccine.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=640 640w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/florida-vaccine.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1280 1280w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/florida-vaccine.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/florida-vaccine.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2000 2000w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Florida hospitals are struggling to get oxygen due to a rise in COVID-19 cases and Governor Ron DeSantis\u2019s decision not to declare another state of emergency. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Eva Marie Uzcategui\/Bloomberg via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Remember, the original DeSantis-bashing story, pushed by activist media like \u201c60 Minutes,\u201d was that he put his supporters at the front of the line to get the vaccine. Would a vaccine skeptic do that?<\/p>\n<p>Florida is 23rd in vaccination rates, in the middle of the pack. Yet the prestige press treats the state like some backwater, where the population prefers medieval cures over modern medicine.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>COVID case rates ebb and flow. With three vaccines available, we will either learn to live with the virus \u2014 or remain prisoners to a hysteria that DeSantis has tried so hard to defeat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Pushaw told me her boss \u201cdoesn\u2019t have time for political slap fights; he just wants to keep Florida free. Whether Washington, DC, likes it or not, Gov. DeSantis will continue to defend the rights of all Floridians.\u201d Maybe it\u2019s Biden who should get out of his way.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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So naturally, the White House spent the past week picking fights with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. 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